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I feel like normie fed-based socials need to start going live like bluesky so people can finally get off these shitty platforms. We need a leader in the federation space.
Was rather foreseeable but seals the deal for me. I will will waste my time here.
Union busting 101 - claiming the organizers are lazy and trying to skirt work and fire them asap
I knew this is what they would do. :) OpenAI hired Kenyans at 2$/hr to train their AI chatbot. This is what Reddit will do. Hire Africans at 2$/hr to moderate the most popular sub and generate traffic, than try and recruit new volunteer mods, all the while going for the IPO.
the idea that a cabal of mods were going to take things in a good direction was always unsound
Spez “this isn’t impacting our bottom line” surely is acting like it is. Let the fire begin. Turn off all mod tools, all spam filters. Let the website turn into a shithole.
I read an article yesterday that had a brief mention of an advertising manager advising his clients to hold their campaigns, etc and see how this develops. The hold seemed to be less permanent than with Twitter. But seeing how it's not resolving totally on its own with some communities even permanently abandoning the platform (/r/StarTrek and associated subs), it might start having a bigger impact.
I know I'm just nitpicking the headline but leave it to the apple community publication to make this about their app.
Hahaha you know before this many people didn't think of reddit as corporate corporate. They scewed themselves and ruined their goodwill
With WHO? Who's gonna take over that wasn't already part of the mod teams?
/r/ModCoord is polling subs, a lot of support still for indefinite blackout
They already removed some mods, it's not a threat it's Spaz being a jerk and awful person.
As of now, more than 80% of our top 5,000 communities (by DAU) are open
I'm a bit paranoid that this could be a technical truth because the communities still closed have dropped in DAU.
Edit: Checked the blackout tracker, of the ones listed 205 are still closed or restricted, so it's probably an accurate claim, though it seems about half of the participating subreddits are still closed.
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.
allow ordinary users to vote moderators out more easily if their decisions aren’t popular. He said the new system would be more democratic and allow a wider set of people to hold moderators accountable.
blinks loudly What could go wrong? 🤣
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.
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
"we will not force communities to reopen"
But
"we will invite new, active moderators to keep these spaces open and accessible to users"