Reddit is reaching out to moderators after tensions rose over recent policy changes and API pricing. A Reddit admin acknowledged the strained relationship and outlined new weekly feedback sessions and other outreach efforts to repair ties. However, moderators remain skeptical of Reddit’s efforts given mixed results from past initiatives. Many mods feel Reddit has been unwilling to make meaningful changes to address their concerns like more accessible API pricing or exemption for accessibility apps. After a tumultuous few months, moderators have very low expectations that Reddit’s latest efforts will result in real changes.
I can understand the changes they make, obviously they must be pretty desperate for IPO and need to make the business viable. What I don’t understand is the absolutely terrible PR disaster that was the API changes announcement and the lack of any apology around that.
At this point, even if they backpedaled completely - even if they fired spez - it’s far too little and far too late. Third party apps are gone. The trust is gone. Folks like me deleted their content and their accounts. There is no going back.
Reddit search results are worse than useless now if you’re not signed into old reddit and have res installed. Google’s SEO problem is resolving itself. They have joined pintrest on my insite= exclusion list
the internet in general kind of sucks these days. Reddit has burned down a lot of the things that made its search results so useful in the past. Every forum post more than a few years old is a forest of broken links; the top of basically any internet search whatsoever is an ocean of SEO spam. And that’s before you get into the sheer amount of information that isn’t searcheable at all because it’s on platforms like discord.
This is why I host my own searXNG instance and would recommend anyone do the same or use a public instance.
I could at least understand that though, it would suck but I would not be surprised. I’m genuinely dumbfounded by the attempt to just brush past it