I’ve been the main moderator of the same community since 2016. This evening, i approved my last comment.

I’m leaving for two reasons:

  1. Reddit went public a week ago. I didn’t volunteer to work for a publicly traded company, i volunteered to work for a community. As long as i live under capitalism i accept that my labor will generate value for shareholders, but damned if i ever do it for free. (this is not a Faulkner quote)

  2. April 1st is coming and i’m scared they might do another r/place. Doing in r/place 2022 and 2023 has left me dejected and bitter and i don’t want to feel obligated to participate again.

Leaving felt like ripping myself off of something warm i’ve been comfortably glued to for a long time. Still recommend it for anyone still giving Reddit shareholders free labor

EDIT: there are too many comments to respond to, but i’ve appreciated all of them! Thank you

  • RedditWanderer@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    What was there to “wait and see” after Spez banned 3rd party aps and Rif/apollo went down? Spez had announce monetization schemes and IPO.

    He stayed because it was about him, not reddit. His arguments are pretty weak this late into the gestalt.

    To say that he had more investment than me is bonkers. I was on Reddit since the beginning, and plenty of chucklefucks replaced me, but leaving was the right thing to do, because as you said after the ban there was no stopping the IPO, only helping it.

    Reddit would not have survived replacing all the mods. But a large percentage of reddit didn’t care about 3rd party integrations, and helped spez keep his momentum. Our man here is one of them…

      • RedditWanderer@lemmy.world
        1·
        8 months ago

        Ironic on a post where people are saying he is noble for what he did, and I should respect that. My comments get removed for being (politely) negative while you guys are all here with your little personal attacks on who I may or may not be.