That’s a recent quote from Reddit’s VP of community, Laura Nestler. Here’s more of it: This week, Reddit has been telling protesting moderators that if they keep their communities private, the company will take action against them. Any actions could happen as soon as this afternoon.

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    The sad thing is that the masses that are still on Reddit at this point dgaf and will likely stay on Reddit forever. There’s a real problem of Apathy in today’s culture when people are just jonesing for their fix of daily content/memes, or at the very least nothing that disrupts the status quo. They don’t give a fuck about “ideals” or what corporations do or farm from them so long as their instant gratification and daily intake of said content remains unchanged.

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      Reddit will REALLY be good when those apathetic users are all that’s left to produce content and moderate subs! /s

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        Let’s be honest, reddit had already gentrified itself internally into subs that either

        A) act like mob rule is cool

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        B) so libertarian it hurts

        The B users can’t stand A and the A users can’t stand B, sadly, the A users are the ones who only care about “content” and don’t care about much else.

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          There’s actually another group— people who just haven’t figured out where else to go. There are subreddits for neurodiverse folks, as an example, that are really active, and I’m trying to decide whether to post and say, “Hey, folks, here’s where to move this group to!”

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      People just need to change their attitude for how they interact with Reddit now. Gone are the days of good faith and honest interaction. I’ll happily lurk and absorb content and provide no interaction back, not wasting my time curating / generating content for them anymore.

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        I’ll happily lurk and absorb content and provide no interaction back, not wasting my time curating / generating content for them anymore.

        Same here, on old.reddit only, with adblocker enabled of course. On my phone I will not go to reddit at all.

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        I deleted my account, have been on there for troubleshooting drivers and other pc related stuff last week I confess. The times I f5’d reddit out of boredome for the latest dank memes or drama has passed tho. I can’t handle the attitude from the uberstaff.

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      I think you overestimate the willingness of people to stay in a Spam, porn, and bot infested hellhole (if you think it’s bad now you haven’t seen nothing yet), especially as public consciousness starts to realize that. There will be a point in the future where Reddit will be seen as about as respectable as an adult video site, there are people who would be willing to stay through that but there are plenty of people who wouldn’t either.

      Another good thing to remember is that most of the people on Reddit are the kind of people who laugh and upvote stuff, they’re not the kind of people who are going to be making high quality posts. So when the people making high quality content leave the only thing that will be left is the lowest common denominator. It doesn’t really bode well for the continued survival of the platform, at least as a place that people are going to want to go.