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Stack Exchange Moderators Going on Strike (meta.stackexchange.com)
submitted 2 years ago by Ategon@programming.dev to c/programming@programming.dev
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[-] ndr@lemmy.world 66 points 2 years ago

There’s already a protest on Reddit. Marked as duplicate. Removed. /s

[-] hillbicks@feddit.de 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Really not that clever to strike at the same time as reddit. Media coverage would've been greater next week I'd say. But hopefully they'll be successful

[-] josh@talk.jleb.dev 9 points 2 years ago

@hillbicks @ndr

They've been striking for a week now.

[-] frequentlyBayesian@programming.dev 8 points 2 years ago

I think Reddit has bigger audience than SE.. that being said, Reddits fame is not ubiquitous like Twitter or instagram.. so news site will just give a small article as opposed to “That bunga-bunga perverted ex Italian president is dead!”

[-] Tragic@programming.dev 3 points 2 years ago

Honestly I didn’t even know about it til already looking at Reddit alternatives

[-] true_blue@sh.itjust.works 33 points 2 years ago

For anyone who's interested in an alternative, check out https://codidact.com . It's much smaller right now, but it's open-source and the community is nice.

[-] problematicconsumer@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Looks awesome

[-] druppel@feddit.nl 1 points 2 years ago

the community is nice.

For now

[-] shakcked@lemm.ee 31 points 2 years ago

It's amazing how many for profit business exploit the good will of people passionate enough to contribute towards the sharing of knowledge without compensation and still treat them with no respect.

This is part of the reason I struggle with contributing anything to review sites, Google maps, etc

[-] valence_engineer@programming.dev 5 points 2 years ago

Conceptually, this is the outcome of companies owned by those who wish to maximize their investment. Eventually organic growth slows and it's time to squeeze more juice from the lemons they already have even if they need a hydraulic press to do it. The flip side is that without that investment money these platforms would probably not exist at the scale users are used to. It'll be interesting to see if the fediverse manages to scale well or not.

[-] yourstruly@dataterm.digital 20 points 2 years ago

Revolution is in the air?

[-] lowleveldata@programming.dev 16 points 2 years ago

Oh shit not stack exchange. I'm gonna be homeless if we lose it.

[-] alr@programming.dev 7 points 2 years ago

They've already been on strike. They went on strike on the 5th. They're asking people to refrain from voting, close voting, and accessing review queues.

[-] scrollbars@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago

lol this was my exact second reaction, the first being "hell yeah"

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