“He added that he plans to make changes to moderator policies so users can vote them out. Currently, a higher-ranking moderator — or the company — can boot out moderators. Incidentally, a r/Apple moderator posted on Twitter (via 9to5Mac) that Reddit was threatening to remove moderators who are staging an indefinite blackout.”
Does spez stand to gain anything from intentionally tanking Reddit right now? None of this makes sense and can he really be this dumb? I’ve been on Reddit 6 years and only went to Apollo when Reddit took away sort options. So they pushed me away with making their app worse and then took away the place I turned to. It’s not like I’m going to go back to a company that seems to be intentionally pushing me away
Users could vote out mods?
So we can go vote out gallowboob from his million different subs he mods?!
Voting out mods is a TERRIBLE idea. It means a very active minority can effectively control a large subreddit, and politically oriented / minority spaces are going to have constant campaigns trying to take them over.
Can you imagine what it’s going to be like moderating TwoX, lgbt, or egg_irl if this change goes through? What a nightmare.
Sounds like it could also be glorious, for the exact same reasons! 🤣
Spez has been un-deleting people’s posts, forcibly resubscribing them to large subs that they left, and sending out a warning that says “are you sure you want to post that” anytime you try to post a comment mentioning Kbin or Lemmy. I doubt he would actually give that much choice to users,
I bet sooner after r/Apple will be literally about apples, subreddits have started doing this after they got forcefully reopened
Is there a way to add a John Oliver angle?
At this point mods should just quit moderating altogether, there were more than 20 thousands participating in the protest, good luck replacing them all.
Let subs derail and see how investors are happy about what kind of content reddit hosts.
I can’t remember which sub it was but the mods posted a message when they opened back up that posts could take 2 weeks to review before going through. They basically said “we’ll get to it when we get to it, nobody is paying us to do this” haha
It’s r/scams, they’re pissed, as they should be
So far, I have seen no compelling reason to go back to reddit. I see that as more of a reddit problem than a me problem.
My only compelling reason is to finish deleting all my comments, and to make sure they stay deleted. Got shreddit running off my GDPR files right now.
FYI though apparently they’re being slow giving out GDPR requests right now. Also, you should use shreddit from github, that way you don’t have to pay $15 to use the CSV files.
The more u/Spez digs his heels in, the more I dig mine in defiance. Reddit is not a company that can survive without its content and moderation. Those 2 things come in 1 form, it’s users. WE are Reddit. WE have now come to the Fediverse in protest. Now we have 1 of 2 choices: Return to the Snoo, or build a new place.
Reddit might have IPO plans and a desire to bring in the $$$, but the only thing that mattered on Reddit are and were the PEOPLE! If they can’t wake up and see that, they’ve made the option easy for us
Reddit was a popular street corner where everyone went to set up their soap boxes. You could go there, listen, hang out, or stand on your own soap box. The idea that the owner of the street corner also owns the soap boxes, and that the people standing on them are employees of the street corner is absurd.
Huffman has made it abundantly clear that he intends to handle the reddit community like he’s the president of the world’s shittiest Home Owners Association. What aspect of that would make anyone want to stay?
Now that I’ve left, and have easily replaced it with lemmy, with no discernable loss in entertainment value, why would I go back into that dumpster?
Well, the only reason being that the content is there and not here YET.
Good content is migratory.
