• nicetriangle
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    Fucking delusional on this writer’s part. It was far more than dozens and a lot of those people were power users with an outsized influence on the community.

    I personally moderated two 150-250k user subs. Stepped down from both and wiped all my posts and comments and have not contributed a single thing since.

    • @[email protected]
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      I modded a couple of million user subs, and ended up replacing all of my posts with the same text before never logging in again. Wonder if I’ve been removed from any of them yet.

      Side note, my life has improved so much after not doing free work for reddit. The things I’d see everyday… looking back I’d never do it again.

      • @[email protected]
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        511 months ago

        I learned the “Don’t be a mod for free” lesson back in the IRC days. It’s not worth the mental strain, even if it’s for a community you love.

    • Gormadt
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      5111 months ago

      I went from multiple comments per day and posts almost every day to a couple comments a week and I think I’ve made one post since the protests

      That place got hella toxic since the protests

      • @[email protected]
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        4711 months ago

        The official Reddit app pushes “recommended” stuff into your feed constantly, and the posts and comments both seem to be even more pervasively negative than before the 3rd party apps shut down. Scrolling on Reddit is even worse for your mental health and outward perspective than it used to be.

        • Gormadt
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          4011 months ago

          I refuse to use the reddit app since they killed my favorite reddit app

          And browsing on a mobile browser has gotten even worse recently as well so I’m only using it on my desktop

          It’s gotten so bad over there

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      1911 months ago

      I wish that was true for askhistorians. For some reason, there’s a lot of people with a huge amount of knowledge and potential that are attached at the hip to corporate platforms.

    • @[email protected]
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      1511 months ago

      I tried to wipe my comments but I during the protest I couldn’t access my user page, I could manually navigate to each of my comments via the posts but that would have been an impossible task. Soon after submitting a service ticket I was permabanned for a comment I’d made 2 years earlier… and even more bizarrely they message me a few weeks later saying they’d taken action against an account I’d reported for CP 4 years ago