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.

tbh Im not surprised they would. r/piracy is both niche and wouldnt be worth to remove mods for. Subs like r/aww or r/funny however are main parts of Reddit, and this also applies to massive game subs like r/Minecraft
- You know, when you look at where the subscribers were and what the default subs were, I guess this shouldn't be surprising. There's a reason Lemmy/Kbin already feel more like "old" Reddit, and it's because that was always the "alt" social media users, generally a bit more tech savvy and certainly more open minded to new platforms. At some point Reddit filled up with Facebook and Instagram scrubs and I didn't even notice.
  I was definitely a power user of Reddit, but I'm not sure I was even subscribed to a single default sub. Whoever was hitting up Reddit for r/aww and r/funny was probably never going to take a principled stand over API debates and the centralization and profit chasing administrative choices.
- Yeah, I don't think they'd reopen /r/piracy. They'd take it as a win.
  It's going to be banned for being "unmoderated" sometime soon, calling it now.
- Yeah, I would bet that the default subreddits would be the ones they target with this bullshit

Embarassing, here's to hoping that lemmy takes off

It seems to be.
Make sure to join Kbin communities through Lemmy too!
- how do we find kbin communities from lemmy?
- Well, user counts are relly stagnating. We're at 140k and I don't think it'll go much above 200k

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.

Well, if you think about it, Apple is a good example of corporate greed and ignorance to its users. They will sell some nonsense accessory for $1k, call it a nice name and Apple fans would be happy to buy it. So, it's surprising that this subreddit even took part in blackout at all.
- Apple users crave living in walled gardens where all decisions are made for them as they pretend to be smart and discerning technology users.
- Me replying to this on my M1 Pro 😃😐

When are we starting to call it deddit?

Perfect. Let's start now.
- Are we sure? Did the shoes come off?
I like it! Has a nice ring to it.
was thinking dabbit but deddit works better, thanks

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

This is my shocked face 😐

"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.

My guess is that this was the plan all along - move fast so mods are forced to pick a side and sadly I think many will stick with reddit.
I wonder if this is targeted at mods where perhaps the subs are open, but the mods are not actively performing their duties as a form of protest.
Interesting since there was an article, like yesterday, of Reddit saying they weren't going to remove mods. I guess its time to make an aged like milk community here on Lemmy if there isn't already one.
- Some have re-opened and just changed the rules so that posts are basically spam. Like r/pics is only John Oliver looking sexy. They're technically not closed, but just as worthless to Reddit from a content perspective.

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

There's a risk that disgruntled ex-redditors will collectively vote for the most terrible people they can find for mods, just to harm reddit and drive people here. That would be truly sad to see. Truly sad.
Edit: other appalling things I hope we don't see are people going to reddit in down times only to upvote bad comments and posts, and downvote the good ones.
The very last thing we would want to see is the mods of large subs switching between private and public mode too often, because that apparently has to change permissions on all the posts in the sub, and was why reddit had downtime when they all went dark. They may even have the wild and outrageous idea to briefly turn off private simultaneously, only to go back private as a form of malicious compliance with Huffman's warnings.
- re: the second part, that's still engagement and Reddit doesn't care so long as the metrics are looking good. You're better off not interacting
- Dude, like no person with self worth will apply to being a mod at reddit after such a move. It will be a really good social experiment, some social science student will make a decent thesis out of it.

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.

Everyone who was pro-blackout is here now.
- Leaving nothing but trolls, as expected. Reddit is already dead.
I was a bit stunned reading the comments on that post. They weren't just expressing displeasure with the blackout, it was more like "spez is 100% correct to kill 3rd party apps and mods are bad people". My first thought was trolls/astroturfing, but maybe the rules of the game just change that quickly when an addict isn't getting their fix.
- prob cause everyone who agrees with the black out has left
- People love to complain, but hate doing anything about it. Moving to lemmy is a bit of work, not much, but enough to deter a lot of idiots. I compare moving to anything Fediverse with moving to Linux. People will always complain about Windows doing this, Windows doing that. So stop using it coward!
- Let's not forget reddit has a history of using bots to create the impression that the site is more active than it is. I don't think it's at all unlikely that that's going on here.
FWIW, I saw a decent amount of discontent directed at the blackout in a lot of the subs I frequented.
Some were confused by the mods and had no idea the 3rd apps were a thing. Some were ra-ra capitalism crowd mad that people are protesting the other site's gawd-given right to price gouge. Some were mad the blackouts didn't go far enough...
I think the takeaway is that you can't please everyone.
This ain't my first go as a social media refugee. I get they want to pull a Kevin Rose and cash out. Their board's been fucking with everything I used their site for and how I used their site. As far as I'm concerned, they can get farked.
IMO, the only thing preventing a mass exodus is platform mature enough to capitalize on their fuck-ups.
I would say it's surprising but r/technology has been apathetic to the blackout, and that's being generous. At the same time, it shouldn't be surprising considering its top mod is a reddit admin.
- I’m surprised that more subs have been apathetic or disagreeable to a continued blackout. Everybody’s doing polls that turn into keep-us-open-because-community. As @MrJizzard said up above (how can I tag users on here?) maybe blind support for Reddit’s moves is just what happens when users are cut off from scrolling through their content.

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?

I imagine some sort of generative AI at some point is their goal. We will see if it can be as effective as they predict.
- That's going to be a desasterˆˆ I'm looking forward to it.

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/

Upvoted, but it won't work.
- Of course it won't. But it would help to colour him as the hypocrite he is.
We deleted our Reddit account a few days ago.
Done, cross posted to r/madisonwi
- Again?ˆˆ

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

Thats just funny. The perm bans, they only ever did, ceratinly ydidn't hurt the site
We should convince them to ask for a wage.

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

Its ok, most of us are still adapting

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

Edit: spelling

Yeah, moderating a large sub isn't as shake-and-bake as the admins seem to think. They might "hire" scabs, but the scabs are probably going to slack off pretty hard and might not even understand the tools and procedures that can make it effective but not stifling to content.

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

literally, it's absolute bullshit, I've tried to revive some banned subreddits and I always get rejected. the system is gross in every way.

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

Welcome! Lemmy/Kbin is already better than reddit.
If you're used to being a lurker, get ready to practice your creativity skills along with critical thinking and enthusiasm. Put down that popcorn and pick up a podium!
- I wasn't a lurker, I commented quite a bit. I didn't really post too many posts though so I'll see if I can do more of that.
Especially for something piracy related? Yeah, fuck the corpos!

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.

hopefully there won't BE any users to make shit difficult.
- It's not the users that will be making it difficult, spambot 1-500 is ready and willing

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?

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.

Copyright your content, and delete it.

Surprised Pikachu face

They make it worse ... Good for us

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.

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

I edited the post to have the link. Apologies for lacking one prior

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

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?

Election year

Want to upvote, but...