Scott Mumford
Yeah, “our” sub had almost 11K subscribers–not huge by Reddit standards–but I got the sense it was arguably the place on the web to stay up-to-date and informed on our topic. An author of a recent book used our sub for research (among other sources, of course).
I enjoyed this 3-part interview with Cory about the subject: https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/projects/enshitification
“Enshitification” is my favorite new word of the year so far. I first encountered it just a few weeks ago from this 3-part interview with Cory on ON THE MEDIA. Little did I know that Reddit would be the very next popular platform to enshitify…
https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/projects/enshitification
Stepping away is sort of my plan at the moment.
I’m the solo mod of an 11K subscriber sub who posted most of the content. I took the sub private for the first 48 hours of the protest, then polled everyone to see if they wanted to keep going.
Only a third were in favor. The other two-thirds were “No” or “I don’t understand and/or don’t care”.
I posted links to equivalent places in lemmy/kbin/discord to see if there would be any kind of migration to follow me here.
So far I have exactly one follower on lemmy, and 5 new members on discord (none of whom have interacted at all).
For now, I’m going to continue to monitor my reddit sub (to keep things in order) but will only be posting things in the fediverse. I just cant’, in good conscience, keep contributing to “my” sub in the current environment. It makes me sad, to be honest; I felt a certain amount of pride in what I (we) accomplished over there.
We’ll see what happens going forward.