The demise of Reddit is happening right now. Thoughts?

Arantor said:
Rumour is that actually he broke things and the restrictions are how he’s trying to explain it.
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I noticed a couple of days ago some of the news sites displaying empty Twitter feeds.

I don't have an account and rarely read that kind of content so thought nothing of it. A quick Google suggests Twitter is now restricting access to unregistered viewers. That's fine by me.
 
aussiefooty said:
It's overmoderation is sending people away from that platform.
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Sometimes heavy moderation is needed, depending on the type of community you're building.

Like for my community, we have a strict no-swear and no controversial topics ruleset for the entire community and everywhere we are. That's one thing I like about running my own site, we can have those rules and have a family-safe environment.

But for like 90% of cases, yea, Reddit does indeed do too much moderation. Its those rare instances that it makes sense.
 
KensonPlays said:
Sometimes heavy moderation is needed, depending on the type of community you're building.

Like for my community, we have a strict no-swear and no controversial topics ruleset for the entire community and everywhere we are. That's one thing I like about running my own site, we can have those rules and have a family-safe environment.

But for like 90% of cases, yea, Reddit does indeed do too much moderation. Its those rare instances that it makes sense.
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I'm strict on my own forum but will change the rules to allow some swearing. I haven't had to use the swear filter yet.
I have got a rule though that if someone goes too far with the swearing that they have to donate money to the swear jar.
 
I'm migrating communities from reddit to Xenforo due to the recent major upheavals there. I just need to figure out how to customize Xenforo titles to be similar to reddit's - IE: more compact and 300 characters. Otherwise, Xenforo seems to be a decent replacement for reddit.
 
aussiefooty said:
I'm strict on my own forum but will change the rules to allow some swearing. I haven't had to use the swear filter yet.
I have got a rule though that if someone goes too far with the swearing that they have to donate money to the swear jar.
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Yea, everyone's community is different, which I like about being able to manage mine with a bit more customization than Reddit has available.

MaximilianKohler said:
I'm migrating communities from reddit to Xenforo due to the recent major upheavals there. I just need to figure out how to customize Xenforo titles to be similar to reddit's - IE: more compact and 300 characters. Otherwise, Xenforo seems to be a decent replacement for reddit.
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I mean, funnily, you can use Reddit login for users on essentially a Reddit alternative hehe.
 
aussiefooty said:
Reddit is an overmoderated social media platform that is not worth posting on.
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This is the truth. Speak one wrong word and the comrades will ban you for wrongthink.

I'd like to know if they're actually dying though, or perhaps if they've lost some significant portion of their members. Like 60%. Something like that would be too damaging, and it would never return to it's former glory and usage.

I heard a statistic that for every day you're down, you lose some astronomical amount of members. Can't remember the exact numbers but iirc Twitter went down for a day one time (maybe only in one region but still) and they said they lost 10k members an hour to Gab. So that downtime was a boost for Gab.
 
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