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Reddit communities adopt alternative forms of protest as the company threats action on moderators (techcrunch.com)

submitted 1 year ago by itmightbethew@beehaw.org to c/technology@beehaw.org

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[-] jursed@beehaw.org 44 points 1 year ago

I know that this probably won't work as stubbornly idiotic as Huffman seems to be doubling down but god isn't that amazing.

What's fascinating is the sudden increase of people whining about this. If this kind of stuff bothers them imagine how bad it is when these moderators leave completely? I know a subreddit based on interesting things have completely lowered their standards as a protest and it shows.

[-] LimitedBrain@beehaw.org 27 points 1 year ago

My friend is no longer using reddit because his front page is mostly porn now (and the default app sucks at hiding it). So I got him to switch to lemmy :)

But if anything, this is an even better protest. Much more effective and hard to deal with

[-] constantokra@lemmy.one 5 points 1 year ago

I've also had friends say reddit is too toxic now. Well, yeah. Mods aren't modding and the nicer people are over here. It'll be interesting to see how much they recover. Clearly they knew this would cost them with their users, but hopefully it's substantially more than they expected.

[-] jursed@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

Yep! Its technically reopening and it makes the spez simps mad. Honestly reddit deserves the worst.

[-] ElysiumXII@beehaw.org 18 points 1 year ago

If you want to see people really whine, just go on r/JustUnsubbed, you'll see a bunch of people moaning and groaning about this

[-] Liempong_pagong@beehaw.org 11 points 1 year ago

I just peeped. So many are clueless and simping to spez

[-] ElysiumXII@beehaw.org 13 points 1 year ago

Big Corpo simping is ultra cringe

[-] Sodis@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

I think that's also because a lot of the people fed up with reddit just left at this point. So, it's only those left, that don't care as long as they get their memes.