![]() I think a lot of people, understandably, completely zone out when we start talking about internet freedom and things like the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Speaking of throwing the internet baby out with the bathwater, so to speak, I wanted to put a spotlight on this. ![]() It’s definitely worth checking out the whole thing. Also the r/amitheasshole mods highlighted this absolutely WILD post from July about a Zoom wedding that I totally missed at the time. For instance, three mods of r/coronavirus are irl scientists and a member of their moderation team built a bot to auto-remove opinion pieces from the subreddit. The report includes interviews with mods from r/coronavirus, r/blacklivesmatter, r/weddingplanning, r/frugal, r/applyingtocollege, and r/amitheasshole. Instead of a self-aggrandizing investor report like a lot of big platforms put together - like YouTube’s recent clown car of a post-election report - Reddit chose to interview its moderators about their biggest challenges of 2020. One of my favorite platform stories of 2020 is The Atlantic’s feature on how Reddit defeated QAnon. It might still be full of incels, adult Star Wars fans, and other kinds of dangerous lunatics, but I respect that the company is fairly clear-eyed about its problems and isn’t afraid to try and fix them. It might sound a bit surprising, but I think Reddit is another place that seems to be actively trying to make their community better. On Monday, I wrote about Tumblr’s year in review report and called the site the “cultural core of the internet” and, while no site is perfect, but I think they’re a lot of people at Tumblr who really care about their users. This is part of the reason I like to highlight stuff happening on Tumblr. If we sink into pessimism about the whole idea of a connected internet, we’ll lose something really important and crucial. Highlighting good social media sites and healthy communities is extremely important, as well. ![]() But I want to make sure that we aren’t throwing the baby out with the bathwater. I feel like there is a lot of (rightful) criticism being thrown around right now now about how large social networks monopolize our attention spans and have fundamentally broken our sense of reality. ![]()
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