And now there are threats to remove moderators. Dying site

Didn't they literally say they wouldn't force re-open sub reddit's? Suprise suprise another lie.

Embarassing, here's to hoping that lemmy takes off

The mods of the Apple subreddit framed it as if they were making some great sacrifice by choosing to reopen the subreddit and remain in control. Obviously, the mods that are claiming this are full of shit, it's more about the authority than it is giving a shit about a subreddit.

When are we starting to call it deddit?

delete the content, kill the sub, and brigade it to death if reddit tries to resurrect it

"The blackout didn't affect us at all."

"If you don't unblackout we're going to start removing moderators and taking over subreddits."

I think, maybe, the blackout hurt them. If it goes on for longer then ad buyers will shift their money to other platforms.

Replacing the moderation teams of 5,000 subs should go really well. Right?

Man, I just checked the thread on /r/technology to see what people were saying. Everyone is shit talking mods - it's a complete sea change since last time I was on. Weird.

Scum

This was bound to happen. On the eve of their IPO, they need to show that the site is running normally and that it shows promise to be profitable.

Now I'm not so sure whoever they pick to be more will be up for the task considering that they have gimped mod tools.

Replacing mods is a fun idea. But where do you get replacement mods from? Already before the whole debacle most subreddits had more or less intrusive "We are looking for new mods" statements all around their sub. One sub I'm in has a bot that comments on every post that they are urgently looking for mods.

And that was before Reddit started a war with the mods.

Are they going to let ChatGPT work as a mod?

For those who still have a reddit account, I took the liberty to remind u/spez that he, too, wasn't democratically elected, so I created a referendum post on whether he should remain in his position as a CEO. Maybe give this an upvote if you want to.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ideasfortheadmins/comments/14av4oh/call_a_referendum_on_mr_huffman_as_the_ceo_of/

And I'm sure these new moderators would do just as good of a job as the old passionate ones! /s

btw sorry if this post is pretty ugly. First post I actually made to Lemmy

We seem to be getting to them. Let them hire their mods, quality will go down, and we'll still be here :)

Edit: spelling

Fuck Reddit

If they did this normally instead of the garbage sub request system then honestly their site might be a little fucking better, but doing it just now is blatant and gross

Whelp, I finally made my account, first post! Just need more popcorn! Sadly this move seemed inevitable.

If I was disney/apple/amazon/whatever big corp now it would be the time to put my own people in charge of popular subreddits and astroturf my way through hell

"NO WE WON'T PAY YOU A FUCKING CENT, NOW DO WHAT WE TELL YOU AND SHUT THE FUCK UP"

Wow, they really doubling down on digging their own graves.

Glad to see this community thriving over here tho ;)

Hopefully users can make things difficult for the scab mods.

Horrible move but it looks like a lot of subs are going to roll over and take it - I guess this was always the plan and that reddit figures its better to move quickly to prevent protests taking hold.

Hoping more will break away and move here instead but not expecting a mass exodus.

I closed my twitter last year because Elon is a scumbag, I'll happily do the same on reddit.

This is my shocked face 😐

Honestly, yes. They are stopping moderation, HOWEVER we closed down the subreddit entirely. Thus the sub should be considered non existent. Wouldn't that be some evidence to bring down hell on reddit?

Surprised Pikachu face

Copyright your content, and delete it.

Not surprising, but there are still many ways it can go, even forcing them open may not do anything if the community remains angry, and he’s doing a grate job of trying to put the fire out with a fuel tanker.

Found a script (extension; Nuke Reddit History), to erase my comment history on reddit. Has to be run multiple times if you have a lot of comments. (apparently it was removed from firefox and chrome, so i'm using Edge... but hey, if it gets the job done... i think it can do posts too, but am not at that stage yet. First, comments. as deleting a post doesn't erase the comments you typed there.

They make it worse ... Good for us

Why not share the link, instead of a screenshot of a link shared on Twitter?

called it

Can someone post a link to this Twitter thread please?

easy way is to remove the option of going private so that these fuckers cannot hide my favorite subreddits

Election year

Want to upvote, but...

Ok but invite who? Any new moderators can see how you treat the current ones. Who the fuck is lining up to get treated like shit to moderate a major website for FREE?