Several subreddits had begun allowing porn and not safe for work content to protest Reddit. In response, the platform has removed entire moderator teams from the affected subreddits.
Reddit has no idea how lucky it is as a platform. I've met and interacted with and learned from some of the most intellectual down to earth people on Reddit. It's a real shame. Hopefully those users will find other platforms and get away from the parasite that Reddit is becoming. And they want to go public? Need a new CEO.
Meta is a capitalist social media company and they seem to be doing okay. Facebook might be uncool with the kids these days but it's still massive. And Instagram and WhatsApp are still very popular.
I think the difference between Meta and Reddit is that I bet Meta would issue some sort of apology and carefully crafted PR if they found themselves in Reddit's current situation. But Reddit doesn't even seem to care about angering its users, which just feeds the anger more.
It's still in development. There's a contributor who's working on the API endpoint, trying to get out an MVP of it, but realistically for someone new I'd expect it to not be perfectly stable for a while . Great that it's in active dev though!
For those keeping up at home, "encouraging the submission of sexually-explicit content in previously safe-for-work spaces" is now against the rules, since marking a subreddit NSFW is also against the rules.
But what it really boils down to is their system not requiring users to opt back into a subreddit after it switches to NSFW. It's an edge case. So they call it a rule violation instead.
I think I’m ready to delete my post history now. If this is the deal they’re offering then I’m taking my content. Subreddits protesting is a losing battle since they can just take control. The best way to protest is to keep them from profiting off your posts by removing them
Don't delete, edit and leave your account and comments in an edited form. Delete your submissions. My chosen text: "Spez doesn't get to profit from me anymore. Stop reverting my comments." You may want to have that account handy in case there's some additional shenanigans required down the road.
My question is: if you change or append your comments to include the words Fuck Spez, will the shadowban bot auto-hide all of your content from the rest of the users on the site?
Remember you can only edit/delete content on subs that are restricted/public. Private ones, you cannot, so if you are nuking you need to keep going back and re-nuking as subs turn back on.
@botlt_test. Well Reddit was bound to do something like this. They were kicking them in the wallet and basically saying screw you. That said if the community voted to allow it as a rule change, then Reddit should not object more than perhaps request a slight name change or identifier. In that case the community they are swooping in to defend actually said "Let's Do This!"
Kind of a wild situation: It's reddit's platform to do what they wish with....but the platform is completely worthless without mods and users contributing and putting the time into it.
I know the feeling. When I jumped ship from Twitter to Mastodon, every time I visited Twitter, I felt dirty just opening my own profile. This mixed in with the feeling of "why am I even here?"
Honestly this kind of thing is nothing but good news for Lemmy/kbin/fediverse. The worse the reddit protests get, the more reddit refuses to compromise, the more people it will push to alternatives.