Reddit’s replacement mods may be putting its communities at risk
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Removing institutional knowledge means real risks for Redditors.

Reddit’s replacement mods may be putting its communities at risk — With institutional knowledge seeping out of the site, poor moderation could have real-world impacts as more misinformation is allo…::Reddit’s moderator purge could have real impacts on reliability and information safety as it rushes to replace mods with inexperienced and poorly vetted volunteers, shows a new report.

    • Cabeza2000@lemmy.worldEnglish
      26·
      1 year ago

      Do we actually want all the redditors and their “content” in Lemmy?

      Be careful what you fish for.

      • Zetta@mander.xyzEnglish
        12·
        1 year ago

        The mainstream content on reddit is not something I would be interested in, and I would actually be sad if it made it’s way over to lemmy.

        But I would love the tons of niche (non tech savvy niche, they are already here) communities to make their way over here.

      • Ktheone@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        Absolutely, I do not want a eternal september to take place. I’m fine with Lemmy growing slow and stable.

      • Obi@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        I think the idea is that through federation/defederation, the fediverse is more protected against this. Right now we’re all mostly interacting with the whole rest of Lemmy besides obvious trolls/menaces because it’s small, but eventually you’ll start getting “neighbourhoods” with more curated instances you wish to subscribe to or not.

        Don’t want to see the mainstream garbage? Then avoid the mainstream instances and curate your own little corner of the internet.