Apparently the admins aren’t too happy with the new form of protest that Reddit moderators found, since NSFW subs don’t run ads. Brought to Reddit users by the zombie admin account u/ModCodeOfConduct!
The admins also removed the entire mod team of r/MildlyInteresting (original link) and replaced it with either employees or sycophants, while giving all mods a 7d suspension ban.
Reddit: “subs belong to the community!”
Also Reddit: “screw the community, this is MY PRECIOUS!”
I’m willing to bet that r/ModCoord will be eventually banned. And the ban message will say something cryptic, vague, and meaningless.
Reddit hates fun
The real fun comes after the mods leave. The new mods won’t keep it up, and I’m betting that 4chan will look at it and say “you know what, we fucking hate lebbit, might as well raid it”.
The only thing 4chan is good for.
Nowadays I browse mostly /vg/ and /a/, but I feel like 4chan is in certain aspects considerably better than Reddit. For example it’s actually easier to have a decent conversation in 4chan than in Reddit.
Perhaps I’m biased though, I’ve been posting in that shithole for more than a decade, for comparison my oldest Reddit account would be 9yo if not banned.
Kind of weird to think about it - 4chan saw Reddit being born, and 4chan will see Reddit die.
4chan just feels a lot less organized compared to Reddit or any other social media platform. Which is expected since it is focused on users being anonymous, but there must be a better way to link to boards; it’s kind of overwhelming when you’re on some board and you see some rules like: this can only be posted to /b/ and if you want to talk about that go to /x/.
4chan users actually think they’re superior. I sometimes see insufferable people on Reddit, but 4chan is where it’s at.
I cannot tell if it is ironic or not, but people there feel like outright Nazis.
And finally I don’t like the funni green texts, they are just not my thing.
I also might be biased because I didn’t browse 4chan nearly as much as I did Reddit.
Yes, 4chan has a thousand problems. Specially if you go to /b/ (random), /pol/ (politics) and /v/ (technically video games, but most people who like them discuss in splinter boards). And there are plenty Nazi, specially in /pol/.
But honestly, I don’t think that the Nazi issue is considerably larger in 4chan than it is in Reddit. It’s just more visible; the same Stormfront Nazi are in Reddit, except that they disguise their shit behind pretty words, or feigning stupidity¹. If you do anything similar in 4chan people will eat you alive, and you can actually tell the Nazi to die in a fire². It’s crude and transparent, but it’s like this for everyone.
And Reddit will likely get even worse in the long run. Mod replacements mean a power vacuum; a lot of those Nazi might eventually get into power positions, because the users (incl. mods) who’d protest against them are now gone.
Another issue with 4chan is the format - threads might go in the span of a hour in faster boards, so it is not suitable for any long-term discussion. The generals are a community hack around this, but even then, expect the same questions pop up over and over, and then fall into the abyss.
So overall I feel like 4chan is not a good Reddit alternative, but I still think that it’s easier to discuss serious stuff there than in Reddit.
It’s like seeing that one popular person you don’t like being hated by all lol.