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Reddit protest updates: news on the apps shutting down and Reddit’s fights with mods - The Verge

www.theverge.com Reddit protest updates: news on the apps shutting down and Reddit’s fights with mods

Reddit communities went dark to protest recent changes.

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I cut ties today. I had been a mod in a sub of over 3 million users for years. All reasonable folk on the mod team were gone and a huge fight broke out because I suggested that we "Try to be decent to each other" as if it was the most offensive statement they had ever heard. I have zero regrets leaving that kind of toxicity behind.
- This is the real result. Yeah subs will open back up, but the mods who are left are just weird keyboard warriors who think being a mod is like being a cop (I mean obviously this is a generalization, but it's mostly true) The quality of individual subs is going to suffer and therefore the overall user experience will suffer.
  
  Yeah, if that place dies it'll be a wither on the vine situation with a somewhat slow negative feedback loop rather than anything overnight. Or it might limp along a wounded and lesser animal ala twiiter.
  
  I'm kind of starting to think that may be what Reddit wants anyway. Just look at the kind of content that floats around on TikTok and Instagram. The tech nerds will leave, but that will leave space for scrollable junk content for an entirely different - and a lot larger - audience.
- What sub was it?
  
  I didn't plan on naming names, but it was r/games
  
  I hope the games communities here take off, I’m fiending for news lol
  
  Oh God as long as we can like Harry Potter games again I'm good
  
  I haven’t been terribly active on r/games. I’d there something wrong with Harry Potter games?
  
  Just the usual business of the author being a tosser and people not wanting to support her.
  
  Trueee
  
  Welcome on board - your extensive experience should be a godsend for the relevant communities in here, if you were interested in getting back in the saddle.
  
  Thank you! If you know of any communities in Tech/STEM (I'm a phd biochemist btw) that need some help just point me in their direction.
  
  It's outside my bailiwick but there doesn't seem a lot that's relevant apart from:
  
  !biotech@mander.xyz
  
  At this early stage, it's often a matter of seeing an unfilled niche and starting a community for it. And that's why I seem to start one a day. Generally on the "if you build it, they will come" principle.
  
  I'm sure it was hard to step away from being so involved with such an incredibly huge community. Good on you though.
  
  Thanks, sadly it was a lot easier than you may think. Unless they make major changes there I can't see them lasting.
  
  Same story here. Just waiting on my GDPR right to erasure request to be executed before I kill the account entirely.
  
  Can you recommend an appropriate community to post questions to about this? I have all the CSV files from Reddit, just not sure how to proceed/request deletion of my posts from Reddit.
  
  Search through posts and comments here. I used Redact before the API changes to edit and delete almost everything (left the last week of comments after editing to point to Lemmy). I have no idea if it still works. It may have been killed by the Change. There was at least one tool that used javascript, and it should still work.
  
  I was wondering about this, I never posted a lot, mostly lurked and anything I did comment was mostly a stupid joke or question. Is this worth me going through? Fuck spez
  
  Games was my favorite sub. :(
  
  Compare the mod list today to from say January, or some time last year via the internet wayback machine. It's quite sad. Also, for obvious reasons I'm using a different username here.
  
  Is your name a reference to Anthony "JoJ" Johnson?
  
  Here is an alternative Piped link(s): https://piped.video/watch?v=CVA_sx0QYf8
  
  Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
  
  I'm open-source, check me out at GitHub.
  
  Oooh, nice! Thanks, I was just getting fed up with YT, it's nice to let go of another bullshit stalking in my life.
  
  Lemmy.zip has a pretty solid gaming community that’s starting to grow
  
  I'll have to go check them out, thanks
  
  Any reason you didn't follow Deimos?
  
  If that is who I think you're referring to, we didn't overlap. The founders were gone and made persona non grata (the group gets their feelings hurt when people leave) a VERY long time ago so I'm effectively a stranger to them that's associated with a group that was hostile to them even if I believe there was complete turnover. Have a look at the mod list now, the longest tenured member is probably at the 4 year mark with the bulk of the team at a year or less. It's a toxic meat grinder.
  
  I see, that makes some sense. A shame really, I was there when they started the place and there when they became an admin. They truly knew what they were doing in terms of creating a space for real and constructive discussion. Explains why you're here and not over on Tildes though if there's literally no more connection between you.
- Thanks for taking an action and sharing the broad strokes of your experience. Like many, I think Re**it will persist irrespective of the changes -- but it will be/is much worse for wear. Welcome to Lemmy!
  
  I'm excited for Lemmy. New user but 10 minutes in and I'm dumping the ex.
  
  Welcome aboard!

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