So how long until they kick legacy mods from r/startrek and reopen?

Wasn't there a thread on r/startrek today about them deciding to reopen? I was surprised by how many users were pretty angry about it having been closed, tbh. I felt really good about the decision to close, even before I joined Lemmy.

Splinter the community, I'm going to stay with the people who went through the mess of setting up a new place that isn't beholden to Reddit. It may be forever smaller, but of the 600,000 subscribers, how many of them contribute?

The "sacking" of the current moderator volunteers that I've seen in some news articles this morning leads me to the next step, which is if a moderator can be tossed, that's a chilling effect for the next moderator and then, all the people who remain subscribed to that subreddit. I don't know if that will actually happen this way, it will at least be a fascinating exploration to see how this all unfolds. Someone on Mastodon mentioned that Reddit makes no content of their own, it's all volunteers, the public, and their 3rd-party toolset. That they are burning all of it and maintaining that everything will be fine in the end. Smells a lot like bravado and big-talk.

They are probably currently interviewing Paramount employees for the mod position.

This is a completely empty threat. Do you think Reddit is capable of replacing the whole moderation teams of 5000+ subreddits in a couple weeks? NO they aren't. Which is exactly why /u/jailbaitlover i mean /u/spez is trying to get singular mods to cross the line so they can boot the rest and put all the moderation on their new scab.

As much as I support the protest and no longer want to use Reddit, people with that opinion are probably a small minority. If people want to stay on Reddit despite everything, that's up to them in the end. Reddit won't be the same, and some subs will be a shadow of their former selves when they lose the mods, but people are allowed to stay if they want.

It seems to me mods should be resigning and moving elsewhere if they want to. Reddit is not going to change tack. By all means do everything to let them know how shitty they've been (delete your account and all posts if you want). But also let people try to take over and keep things going if that's what they want.

Federated social media is the future (I hope). Unless the community controls the platform, similar problems will keep happening.

Open it back up and change the rules to only allow pictures of starships, encourage discussion's over here.

They do that, and r/startrek dies. It'll be a hellscape and nobody will want to go there anymore.

It looks like it is (not surprisingly) already starting to be considered. https://www.macrumors.com/2023/06/15/reddit-threatens-to-remove-subreddit-moderators/

hey um, /r/startrek is reopen now lol

Is it possible to delete a subreddit if you were the one that created it? That would be what I would do if it were possible.

Eh it'll happen. Either the mods will want to see the subreddit continue or they will leaveike us. One way or the other it will be back.

Just gotta make this place fun a d engaging.

Most likely, they'll make a way for people to take over subreddits that went private and have no activity for a while, if there isn't one already. r/StarTrek might get special treatment, or it might just be shunted over into a new general policy like this.