As soon as they reopened, reddit was back in business. The mods tried to pass it off as "well we're going to protest within the rules of Reddit" by doing shit like only post John Oliver or really childish shit.

It was funny but still childish.

Mods had power because they were united and reddit couldn't replace all of them at once. Instead, they picked them off one by one.

I really wanted the blackout to work. And it could have. But when the mods caved, reddit won.

[–] the_post_of_tom_joad@sh.itjust.works 21 points 10 months ago (1 children)

If you and me came here because of the api thing, we won. Reddit doesn't know what they're missing cus we're cool and great

[–] jelloeater85@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

It's great because folks here give a shit.

And if you want to get a hold of a mod or a admin/sysop, you can.

We're all just users, trying to make this place the best we can. ❤️

[–] lvxferre@lemmy.ml 9 points 10 months ago

Mods had power because they were united and reddit couldn’t replace all of them at once. Instead, they picked them off one by one.

My guess is that they decided that the little fictitious power that they had over their communities was worth dealing with an obnoxious administration, that outright belittles them as "landed gentry". As such, they never actually planned any sort of migration out of Reddit, and instead rationalised their decision to stay there as "we're thinking on the users".