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    511 year ago

    Well Steve, it’s not profitable for me to be a moderator for free either. Feel free to let me know how profitable you think you’ll be after hiring enough staff to replace all the mods that’ll be leaving.

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      1 year ago

      They’re too cheap. I’m sure they’ll just replace you guys with less effective and active mods while the site just slowly smolders into a shadow of its former self.

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        121 year ago

        Besides being too cheap, it’s honestly not even practical. There are about 21,000 active mods on any given day. Replacing even half of that number would increase their current staffing of ~700 by 15 fold which doesn’t seem likely given they just laid off 90 of them. That doesn’t even touch on the fact that those moderators would know nothing about the subs they’re now supposed to be taking care of.

        Nah, you’re totally right, this is the beginning of the end. The blackout might not do anything short term but they’re certainly going to shed enough mods that quality will slip. Once that happens people will be looking for alternatives and Reddit will end up on the scrap heap of “used to be great” like so many that came before.

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      51 year ago

      I stopped modding seriously long ago the moment I realized the community was getting too big and that the it is basically unpaid labour.

    • Joe B
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      41 year ago

      This means nothing to that lost CEO I started my sub over here but didn’t come closer to the numbers on Reddit. I really don’t know what to do now

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        181 year ago

        You’ll have to wait. Reddit took a long time to get to where it is now. Lemmy can get there too, but it won’t be overnight.

        • Joe B
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          91 year ago

          Yea. I’m getting some good engagement right now in my community but. Yea we gotta wait!

                • Joe B
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                  51 year ago

                  Thanks. I open my sub tomorrow on reddit. but I think its way cooler over here. Another mod over there is going to open it plus its automated now so I will hardly interace with it. but yea I’m loving lemmy and might close the reddit sub don’t know still thinking about everything