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I really don't want to connect my reddit username & the subreddit in question to this post.

I have Audio-CDs from the 80s that are still playing 40 years later. And I have CDs with deep scratches that also play without problems.

Yes and no. First of all, there is nobody who wants to take over. So the option is "abandon it" vs. "kill it". Reddits actions in regard of their mods do have consequences. And it also doesn't belong to the community as Reddit is actively claiming ownership. So to take your church analogy: The pastor wants to quit. The bishop claims ownership and control of everything, is actively harming the community, but can't provide a replacement priest.

And in my opinion it is better to stop projects like this instead of abandoning them as abandoned places & subreddits will get taken over by spammers, crazy people and full on nazis.

It's already here :)

TBH, it does make sense: Posting a legitimate comment and then editing it after a while is a popular tactic of spammers. Post something, get the top spot and after the post has gone out of the popular queues, edit in your personal spam links and profit from all the sweet traffic coming via Google -> Reddit -> Your site

Yes, you are doing something different here, but for an automated moderating system that looks exactly like a spam attack. Overwrite existing comments with the same post & edit in an external link.

And sadly you need those automated tools as a Reddit mod and if Lemmy is keeping it's growth, we will need them here, too. Spammers will come and they totally will overwhelm moderators trying to do it manually.

I run a small thinclient (HP Mini G400, but those small Lenovos thinkcentres and others also work) in my home. Cost me ~100€ plus a few Euro for a RAM update and a bigger hard drive and now I'm running Proxmox with the help of the Community Scripts:

https://community-scripts.github.io/ProxmoxVE/

It's quite awesome, to be honest.

I mean... why wouldn't all that is happening not have a effect on sales? Musk is the face of Tesla and Musks image has totally gone downhill for lots of people. He's gone from "techbro genius" to "fascist" in a few months (!) in the public image and there is really not reason to doubt, that this won't have an effect on sales.

Be the chance you want to see in the world and email him?

I don’t think phone makers are that close to ad companies

Google?

Yeah, LLMs could really help. Other tools without AI are also helpful. The problem with all those companies is that they don't want to do moderating for the public good at all. Reddit could kill a lot of Fake News on it's platform, prevent reposts of revenge porn or kick idiots just by implementing a few rules. They don't want to

Yeah, high-res video will eat those TB quick. I started to clean up my collection - if something really was not good, I stopped watching or lost interest, it goes into the bin. Collecting is great, but there is no reason to keep some mediocre Netflix shovelware around that was canceled after one season.

Yeah, that is also a factor. You can't expect good work from somebody who has been working for 60 hours for years without having a vacation.