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That only works if they have people who have the very specific skills to do the job. And that whatever those people would otherwise have been doing can go undone.

This website only works with unpaid mods.

boycotts have always been very difficult to pull off and fail virtually every time.

For pros and cons a good place to start is Rules for Radicals, published in 1971 by the great community organizer Saul Alinsky. He has many stories to illustrate but in summary writes regarding boycotts:

Once the battle is joined and a tactic is employed, it is important that the conflict not be carried on over too long a time. ...There are many reasons of human experience arguing for this point. I cannot repeat too often that a conflict that drags on too long becomes a drag. The same universality applies for a tactic or for any other specific action.

Among the reasons is the simple fact that human beings can sustain an interest in a particular subject only over a limited period of time. The concentration, the emotional fervor, even the physical energy, a particular experience that is exciting, challenging, and inviting, can last just so long — this is true of the gamut of human behavior, from sex to conflict. After a period of time it becomes monotonous, repetitive, an emotional treadmill, and worse than anything else a bore. From the moment the tactician engages in conflict, his enemy is time.

BTW Alinsky (b.1909) wrote this book to try to stop baby boomers from being dumb and fouling everything up. I am not a huge fan of the intergenerational model of class conflict but I think it is interesting.

idk. people say that now because we all know what happened in this timeline. but hasn't there been an option to pay reddit via reddit gold for a long time? i do not even know how that system works because I was so disinterested in it.

seemed to always be a pretty marginal thing.

i speculate that if we go back in time to, say April 2023 and change the course of history so that reddit just announces a more aggressive freemium price plan directed at users, many/most people would be pissed. given how shitty the website was, to me it would feel like a ripoff to pay them. the reason reddit is good is because of RES on desktop and 3party apps on mobile. I can confidently say that i would have scoffed at paying reddit. now that I have learned how bad their native setup is for mods, I feel more strongly that way.

if there was a model where they took a cut out of fees paid to the people who actually make it nice to use, maybe i'd be more friendly.

even then I might be clouded by hindsight in terms of what has actually happened which I do view as a total fucking disaster.

when a nerd thinks us vietnam war strategy sounds like a good idea

this would have been a good thing to do for some of the people who deleted their accounts. the ones who had accounts which could have credibly been given subs.

they gave it to someone who wants to implement a system of collecting government ID from participants and tracking their activities. very cool, I'm sure the kind of weirdos who like to mail each other snacks will happily scan their drivers license and send them to this person. no problemo.

perfectly said

even though that sub is like the most annoying and sanctimonious place on reddit, I am sad for these people that they are losing their forum. where else will people express their anxiety over wasting lemon seeds by throwing them away? or congratulate each other on the ecological benefits of purchasing complicated, unfix-able gadgets to perform simple and infrequently performed tasks?

For anyone who like me has never heard of "temu", it is said to be some sort of chinese "fast fashion" website which might/probably traffic in the products of slave labor. Presumably in a way which exceeds other "fast fashion" but my investigation was quite shallow.

the solution is to collectivize reddit but I do not have a good plan about how to do that.

“It's crucial, in fact, for the public's perception of the justice system to be one that is of faith that we're actually delivering justice. And when we recognize that we didn't, that we go back and we fix it,” McCarty said.

Quite a statement with broad implications if even somewhat implemented.

To do it right would require setting up a whole secondary justice system to double check the work of the first. So many people would be uncharged that reintegration and employment of the formerly incarecerated would be a big deal. Also the retraining of prision staff to perform some other job as much fewer would be required.

All in all it is doable and should be done but a hard row to hoe politically.