And yet I read something about them taking over one of the popular subs (adviceanimals or something) and removing all the mods and making it public again...
this post was submitted on 12 Jun 2023
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The mods knew this was a risk going in. If anything, it just shows that reddit doesn't care about its users. They're ostracizing a large portion of their mods. If there is no one to moderate their site, they're going to realize why they needed their users very quickly.
Think it would have been a more effective protest if mods got together (think it was 24k from all the blackout subs?) and said they would remove themselves as moderators if reddit didn't budge. Reddit would in no way function if that amount of mods stopped moderating
Yeah there would be gore or CP everywhere very quickly ESPECIALLY if the users valued the increase in chaos. People would probably be actively posting full length Disney movies and "questionable" porn to stir shit up.
What happened was the top mod, who had been inactive for a while, came online and overrode the other mod's decision to stay open. This caused a moderator dispute, which caused the admins to step in, and they decided to remove the top mod and reopen the sub.
https://lemmy.intai.tech/comment/31833
(And if Reddit was maliciously forcing subs open, why would they choose r/AdviceAnimals?)
If the CEO got caught editing comments and posts, how do I know he didn't just pretend to be a defunct mod lol
Probably because it's one of their front page subs? My guess at least. Maybe the CEOs favorite π€£
r/adviceanimals doesn't have pictures of underage girls, so u/spez obviously has no interest in it.
One of my older family members even mentioned that they heard about a Reddit blackout, so it definitely is being talked about.
My local sub did a "brown out" and they even messed that up lol
Are you Filipino?
Hey that's racist! /s
The Reddit CEO was just on NPR being interviewed.
Didnt know the apollo dev is from halifax.... Makes me even more angry that reddit CEO tried to make him look like a liar
everyone on the internet is secretly Canadian .
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Not a bad article. A bit light on details and the effects and consequences of Reddit's changes. However, many articles I've seen from other mainstream news organizations were slanted towards the corporate bias and made it sound like the concerns were no big deal.
CBC often does this with Business reporting. In their story about the InstantPot bankruptcy they neglected to mention that the reason the company was $500 million in debt is because they were acquired by a private equity firm who then took out a $500 million loan in the company's name and used it to pay themselves a huge dividend, earning about $150 million in instant profit.
Too bad there was no mention of decentralised alternates like Lemmy or kbin.
As discussed elsewhere, that might not be such a bad thing. Ramping up slowly will work much better than all of Reddit suddenly showing up at lemmy.ml and expecting it to be a fully polished* Reddit.
I remember the exodus to mastodon being a bit of a shitshow with nobody knowing how it worked, the whole network slowing to a crawl, and then a lot of them leaving a couple weeks later. It did boost the amount of users, just in a bad way.
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We should be the change
publicity is good, but wish they would have taken two exta seconds to explain the nuance of the issue.
It's not just that Reddit will start charging for API calls, but that the price was outrageously high, extortionate even.
Many will read this article, and others like it, and automatically side with Reddit, because "it sounds fair that apps with heavy API usage should contribute to the cost", completely missing the part the Reddit is trying to bankrupt the third part app developers.
wish they would have taken two exta seconds to explain the nuance of the issue.
Most users on Reddit don't really understand the nuance, either.
Even though there has been tons of threads in most of the subreddits trying to explain it.
I'm annoyed that the imgur pricing didn't make the article, which I thought was the most illuminating comparison. Leading the pricing details with $2.50/person/month sounds very "that's all?" at surface level
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