📢Entire mod team on r/mildlyinteresting removed and locked out of their accounts after changing their rules upon community's request. (They're also switching subs BACK to SFW)

What she did was OK IMO. Banning revenge porn is absolutely necessary. Probably a legal requirement in almost all countries. The rage against Pau seemed to be from extremists who wanted reddit to allow discrimination, bigotry, racism, and everything in that vein.

The resulting uncensored Voat fork of reddit, was a completely useless cesspool.

I've seen a Lemmy server (feddit.dk) require posts and comments to be legal (probably for the country of the server). Which in my opinion is obvious. It should be a minimum conduct requirement for a social network anyway.

Absolutely, the way he was treated was criminal IMO. It's horrendous that such practically illegal law enforcement isn't held accountable. They twisted everything against him, and ignored all his rights completely. Secret service behaved like mobsters, and their accusations were complete bogus.

I'm so happy I live in a country where the law and enforcement is much more sensible. IP law is still important, but they won't destroy you for breaking it.

It's a shame the moderators can't unionize.

At least they don't donate their time and effort to Reddit anymore.

Looks like the nazis are gonna win might as well pack it in and accept it...right?

Even when you know you are going to lose, you still have to fight.

Presumably now there's no one moderating the sub?

Stick around and help this grow.

If you build it, they will come.

Me either! Now I feel like I'm getting in on the ground floor of something big.

I'd heard of Lemmy and wanted to switch for at least a couple of years now, but without a critical mass of other people to post content there was no point. I'm excited that it's finally a viable community!

That we will still see. Its quite possible there will be a crazy big cleanup and still people will stay.

Probably specifically because the admins (Spez) don't want people hearing that competition exists

Like Digg "won"?

How the f do they win this?

Morally? Nah that train left.

Technically? I guess when it comes to user counts and influence there's nothing really to gain and a lot to lose as well.

Monetarily? Nope. They lost trust, which loses users and stability as well as belief in the platform. They will decrease earnings from investors, selling user data and potential ads.

I don't see a win here...

Hell yeah!

I think what they're doing is the most impactful. If the mods just stop, then under ToS they can be legitimately removed as inactive. If they're active and following the clearly-expressed will of the community as determined by voting (you know, that core principle that all of Reddit is built on) then any action taken to remove them is an obvious and egregious violation of Reddit's stated policies. If the community will just happens to be something that makes the website less programme l monetisable... well, that's a shame, but nothing in Reddit's user ToS says "you must work towards helping us profit from your interactions with the site ".

Plus, many of these communities are voting to do things that accelerate the transformation of their subreddits into hard-to-clean-up cesspits.

This is why things like antitrust law and inheritance tax are important: to establish and maintain limits on the size and power of assholes.

Sadly trump is not likily to be once he may be back by end of next year

you created the account on, in this case, lemmy.world.

Oh hey! I didn't know you could manually enter the instance - I thought you had to choose It let me log in! Thanks so much for the tip! :)

Yes I did...

On Lemmy.world? Or Lemmy.ml?

... I'm really confused about these different sites/instances/defederation.

yes!

Notes on PDS:

• It goes too fast and most of its edit operations are rejected by Reddit's rate limiter, so each run will be roughly 5% successful. Several forks fix the issue by introducing a delay, so make sure to use one of those or make your own.
• Reddit restores comments and revert edits at random. Maybe due to some backup restore due to all the drama. I re-run PDS every day.
• Deleted comments can be read and restored by mods. Edited comments make the original comment unavailable.

Because they always have had the legal right to do as they please with their platform.

This protest isn't by the workers - it's by unpaid volunteers and there is no law saying they have to listen to unpaid volunteers - and while we can organise there's no - "unionization" persay - they aren't paying us. So yes, they can and will bust through up the picket line, holding as many people hostage to their platform despite the moral standing of doing so.

Sure people don't like that, and therefore they have no moral right. But business when they get greedy generally don't care about moral rights, and will do everything on the correct side of the law to keep their power and userbase, and considering how eroded the antitrust and anticonsumer laws are right now, reddit has a lot of ability to do shit they shouldn't really be allowed to do.

Even if legal suits do happen as a result of this, it will be a long drawn out process where Reddit will either Win, or declare bankruptcy. Then you can bet a large multinational tech company will buy it out. Google and Microsoft have been wanting to get into social media for some time now, and meta is still looking for a hot new thing it can hedge it's bets and get more userbase - to the eyes of these companies the data and software Reddit possesses has inherent value even as the dwindling userbase, especially because Reddit aren't really deleting data from old accounts. Hell current data would be a great data set to train AIs on and therefore big AI companies would love the opportunity to own said data. I could totally see a company buy it up, shut it down and then use the data to their own ends.

Also taking down the servers, while I completely agree with that in this case - and if 4chan were on board it probably would've happened - though I doubt it could be sustained long term, maybe a few months at absolute best, a few hours at worst. Doing so via the means we have available does present a legal concern not many are willing to cross, especially considering the implications of getting caught, most people are into peaceful protests, for this sort of thing not ouright trying to wreck shit - going to prison over a gripe with a social media site seems like a really dumb thing to ruin your life for.

Indeed, despite the inevitable end of the protest I look forward to see what shenanigans are pulled next. I love the creative drive to continue the protest in any way possible.

*Digged its grave

Several admins made it known that instances without captcha verification were getting bombarded with account verifications (lemmy.world got shut off from their email verification for a bit, even), and enabling captcha solved the issue. That only really happens with bots.

You can also see fairly dead instances getting 10s of thousands of users without any corresponding activity. That's a pretty big sign there.

War in Ukraine , and Ukraine have instances started here. I imagine we will see more after 6/30

i fully support bots and reposters in reddit now, make the content in the site garbage