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Reddit is in danger of a death spiral (www.zdnet.com)
submitted 2 years ago by AlmightySnoo@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.ml
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Huffman has said, "We are not in the business of giving that [Reddit's content] away for free." That stance makes sense. But it also ignores the reality that all of Reddit's content has been given to it for free by its millions of users. Further, it leaves aside the fact that the content has been orchestrated by its thousands of volunteer moderators.

touché

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[-] Celivalg@iusearchlinux.fyi 7 points 2 years ago

Long story short, they don't have the mod capacity to micromanage evry single comment, since unless you defederate, you have to moderate every comment and post that gets seen by your instance, so the whole fediverse basically, and they just can't do that.

Some instances have attracted some toxic behaviors and federating with them added an influx of comments that weren't in line with their rules.

They decided to defederate all the big instances that didn't filter sing ups.

It's a blanket solution, and honestly, I don't blame them for it, lemmy moderation is a bit hell.

Their rules are a bit strict, but I approve of what they are trying to do, creating a "safe" space... The rest of the fediverse is a bit of a far-west with anything goes being the rule...

[-] TWeaK@lemm.ee 6 points 2 years ago

It's a blanket solution, and honestly, I don't blame them for it, lemmy moderation is a bit hell.

Exactly. And beehaw is far from the only instance that has had to defederate to limit not attacks and trolling. Beehaw just did it more than others.

There's nothing to stop instances refederating later, and no doubt this will happen when the dust settles and the tools are developed.

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