• TheSeveralJourneysOfReemus@lemmy.world
    8·
    8 hours ago

    My own opinion of mods is that most of the times you won’t notice that, but at the same time you’re likely to notice that automated tools are effectively getekeeping the place much more than any human mod. Another issue is that obsessing over reddit or discord mods speaks volumes on one’s engagement with these social media. Like, we say that mods are ‘no lifing’ the site, but so are users who complain too much. Either way we have dozens of tools to make research or learn new things and we certainly don’t need reddit to do that.

  • TheTechnician27@lemmy.worldEnglish
    30·
    15 hours ago

    I feel bad when Reddit mods get the brunt for stuff like this; in my opinion, it’s usually not their fault. It’s the fault of Reddit which relies on unpaid labor to make its entire website work literally at all. Maybe that was “fine” back in the early days when Reddit was smaller, but Reddit nowadays is one of the largest websites on Earth and represents the lowest common denominator of Internet users.

    I mod a couple communities here and don’t mind because this whole sphere is non-profit, the people on average are pretty cool, and vastly fewer people makes it so I can usually recognize people and resolve problems by talking. But the idea of working pro bono pseudononymously for a corporation with a market cap of 26.5 billion USD to keep their millions of (on average) stupid fucking users in line is one of the most soul-crushing things I can imagine. You really do have to take actions like this because, without stern moderation, communities will inevitably go to shit. They’ll return to the LCD, and your community will just melt into the rest of the front page with tenuously related, zero-effort posts.

    All things considered, I think most of Reddit’s mods are doing a good job (and well more than what they owe Reddit or even the random end user, which is fucking nothing and next to fucking nothing, respectively). Yeah, the mods could quit at any time, and they probably should at least on ethical grounds, but I also understand sunk cost and wanting to continue fostering a community about a subject you like that hundreds of thousands of people can enjoy.

            • Dr. Wesker@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
              4·
              7 hours ago

              Yet it is virtually never used that way in modern times, and if someone said “American” you’d know exactly what they meant.

              • Sonotsugipaa@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
                2·
                4 hours ago

                That’s the case in the English language, where “Usian” is usually interpreted as a derogative adjective, but how else would you translate “[IT] statunitense” as opposed to “[IT] americano”?
                I’m pretty sure the Spanish language has something similar to the Italian word, and I suspect that’s true for some other romance languages.

                I myself use “American” instead of “Usian”, because the latter feels… artificial, but at the same time insisting on the former feels like textbook UnitedStatesOfAmerican exceptionalism.

                • Dr. Wesker@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
                  2·
                  40 minutes ago

                  insisting on the former feels like textbook UnitedStatesOfAmerican exceptionalism.

                  I suppose I wouldn’t know because I’m not American, I’m American.

                  EDIT: I mean honestly, no one living in the greater North or South Americas would say the above while speaking English. This whole thing ironically smacks of a first world problem a (perhaps self-hating) American (or at very least Westerner) came up with. All the rest of us surrounding their country know our identities.

              • atopi@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
                2·
                6 hours ago

                i have seen american being used to refer to someone living in either South or Nord America enough to need to figure out if someone is talking about the 2 continents or about a single country when they are using the term

              • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz
                2·
                7 hours ago

                Maybe in the US. But that’s “USian defaultism.”

                Also, in the US I find people who identify as “American” are laden with connotations of jingo-nationalism.

                I’m a US citizen, but I don’t identify as an “american.” My loyalty is to the constitution, not some pseudo-patriotic flag fascism.

                • Dr. Wesker@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
                  1·
                  6 hours ago

                  US? US what? United States of Mexico? United States of Matsya? If we’re being difficult and aloof just to be difficult and aloof, lets really lean into it. When you say “US” it could be a number of places.

      • three@lemmy.zip
        9·
        17 hours ago

        This is the problem with these greentext communities, the people in them have never actually posted on 4chan and lack the ability to comment without filtering themselves.

        • F/15/Cali@threads.net@sh.itjust.works
          1·
          14 hours ago

          I mean, if I’m being perfectly honest, I’d prefer not to associate with people who frequent any of the toxic chans. A middle ground where people are capable of reading or writing something peculiar without going slack-jawed would be nice, though. The line where the community suddenly turns homophobic is incredibly thin.