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Was rather foreseeable but seals the deal for me. I will will waste my time here.
Reddit has informed the moderators of those subreddits that it has plans to replace resistant moderation teams to keep spaces "open and accessible to users."
Honestly entirely predictable. Should really be a wake up call to moderators and communities that haven't gone dark that Reddit, Inc is not trustworthy (just like how spez has been willing to edit posts).
Good luck to Reddit trying to moderate 5000 new communities and not devolve into Twitter 2.
I know I'm just nitpicking the headline but leave it to the apple community publication to make this about their app.
There are other apps?
/s
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.
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....
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.
Goodbye Reddit.
Hahaha you know before this many people didn't think of reddit as corporate corporate. They scewed themselves and ruined their goodwill
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
Not every mod wants to start over. Additionally, the tooling is not as evolved for moderating as it was on Reddit with add ons. So we'll just have to rely on the communities naturally forming here
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.
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.
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.