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Hahaha you know before this many people didn't think of reddit as corporate corporate. They scewed themselves and ruined their goodwill
I thought if the community agreed that they could be private.
I also thought that the black out didn't really matter for Reddit.
Guess they are starting to sweat.
With WHO? Who's gonna take over that wasn't already part of the mod teams?
What we need to do is work with Reddit mods on niche / civil subs to encourage their user base to move here before reddit starts using scabs / censoring content
The least they could do is make it less obvious who they will replace the mods with. I expect this kind of blatant takeover attitude from a place with less legal department. Like twitter.
Well, removing the abusive, ban-prone mods of /r/FIrefox wouldn''t be a bad idea.
LMAO their response to the VPN ads they rolled out to every Firefox user was hilarious. Any poster got the comment from a mod that the user should use the already existing posts about it, the thing is, each and every post was locked by the mods with the same comment, not one post was available to comment on the situation. Eventually some posts went through after a while, but these hours, man, that's when i went Chromium, if i get fucked either way, i might as well use the objectively superior browser.
Oh, and to fix the issue "browser.vpn_promo.enabled" needs to be disabled, sure dude, the next week there is the next sponsor you have to disable before it even appears.
Guess it's time to back up certain subreddits off of Reddit and then perhaps... delete them entirely? If it isn't hosted on Reddit anymore, Reddit can't do anything about it.
This would be a job for some data hoarders, though.
"we will not force communities to reopen"
But
"we will invite new, active moderators to keep these spaces open and accessible to users"
What the hell lmao, literally 2 posts down on my feed is the Verge article from today which states:
While the company does “respect the community’s right to protest” and pledges that it won’t force communities to reopen, Reddit also suggests there’s no need for that; more than 80 percent of the top 5,000 communities by daily active users are now open
?????
https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/15/23762501/reddit-ceo-steve-huffman-interview-protests-blackout
The "key facts" thing linked in the article is hilarious...
As of Thursday, June 15, more than 80% of our top 5,000 communities (by DAU) are open), and we expect this to continue. ...
- r/nottheonion is asking users to vote, including a fun option that encourages people to take Tuesdays off
they voted to keep it closed.
Which makes this article even more interesting: they want to give users the possibility of voting mods out to put an end to the strike; and I genuinely hope that that backfires.
Especially because it's unclear how they'd give users the ability to vote on that, without it ending in a shitshow, considering the size of the platform....
I mean, yes, ofc they are going to eventually do this. The team at Reddit isn't going to just let their popular subreddits shutdown indefinitely. They just kick the mods out, moderate themselves or bring some other scabs in to do it.
I think it's the very problem of Reddit. Too much power at the top in a centralized way and too much power to mods of large subreddits with....more subscribers than countries have population.
I think the fediverse is just more the answer top to bottom for more community control.
Why can't "the community" just make another subreddit and then pick it up from there? Oh right, because they want to sell our data.
the fuckening just doesnt stop. u/Spez lost complete touch with the platform itself.
But hey, they own the joint. they can make their own decisions.
He has not lost touch, he doesn’t care. He’s bought and paid for. If shit does go south, he’s the fall guy.
Goodbye Reddit.
They are getting desperate.