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Pretty much this.

I was asked to help mod a new community, and things were going pretty well for a year or so, but then the sub owner and the other mods gradually disappeared until it was just me and another guy left.

Well, turns out they were moderating/owning 30+ subs on average. We both quit that day.

I just can’t understand what kind of ego boost they get out of being useless cunts in 30 places. How can such little power be so tantalizing to some people?

Bingo.

Few years ago I was invited to mod a small but growing community.
About a year later the sub founder (and other mods) just gradually disappeared.
When I brought this up, the top mod (a month later and without warning) removed everyone and asked to DM him if we wanted to continue being mods.

Every single person re-applied, but the inactivity continued.

When I looked at their profile, it turned out they were moderating dozens of subs, and according to the moderation log, I was the only one who actually performed any mod actions in the last 6 months.

This was when I took my leave.
Again, we’re talking about a small ~20k community.
I can’t even imagine the kind of clout chasing that goes around in large subs.

I feel your rant, I really do.
You have no idea how disappointed I was after the Wikipedia redesign until I found the full width button in the bottom corner.

Most sites are optimized for mobile and are completely asinine looking on a monitor.
Especially text heavy sites where even a single sentence is broken into 2 or more lines, meanwhile 70% of the screen is empty.
And it’s not like it’s hard to implement a button like Wikipedia did, web designers just don’t give a crap.
I payed for a full monitor, let me use the full monitor!

I was thinking about asking them what alternatives they tried, but in the end decided it was not worth the effort.
It was either an AI, or I already knew the answer.

The good news is that we are on the verge of building something that we own on Lemmy, where corporations won’t be able to fuck with us as much.

Yeah, about that…
Let’s see what happens when Meta decides to federate Threads with the rest of us.

I really hope you’re right because I love this place right now. It’s much smaller than other platforms but there’s enough content for hours of browsing and the community is leagues above the rest of the internet in terms of quality of discourse.

Outside of the fedi, I don’t remember the last time I saw opposing views coexist in the same thread without one being brigaded.

Just last week someone retorted to me with “I’ve been using the official app for 2 years and I’m happy”.

I’m still not sure whether I was talking to an AI…

Something broke. Here’s an imgur link.

It’s a shitshow and everyone’s done with it.
This is reddit employees discussing the current state of the company.

I’m actually jealous of all of our laid off employees.

They might do more layoffs so hang in there

This is pure gold. XD
The whole internal structure of the company is a raging dumpster fire.

That “blackout” movement, which briefly caused Reddit to go down, dropped daily traffic by about 7%

I wouldn’t call single digit percentages a plunge.
But who knows, maybe they will continue to bleed users and the protest was just the first crack in dam wall:

Experts are unsure if the current protest will significantly impact Reddit or if it will just be another controversial moment in the platform’s history.

Yup, the same thing happened when we moved from Digg to reddit.
There were 2-3 weeks where the death of digg was every other thread but then it tapered off quickly.

That being said, I think this whole reddit fiasco will drag out longer.

It’s not immune but until the fediverse reaches a critical mass, we’re safe… probably.
After that, it will be the same whac-a-mole game we’re used to and somehow I don’t think we’ll win.