I think that anyone who's been around reddit long enough knew this was coming. Reddit isn't a free and open platform, and never was. The admins allowed moderators free reign just so long as they didn't do anything that reddit didn't want.

@manitcor Wtf!! What an asshole CEO

Fuck u/spez

lmao, good fuckin luck replacing dedicated volunteers with one or two shitty ones obsessed with power

They can't just re-open subreddits and expect it to go over smoothly. These subs will collapse without moderators.

Honestly not too surprising. But good luck moderating the bigger subs without the old volunteers.

Everybody knows that it was bound to happen. Reddit is hopeless and the blackout on its own won't do good in the long run.

That's why I'm trying to kick this out:

Deleted my account, removed Apollo, starting to feel at home on Lemmy. No way I’m going back.

Is it just me or is this going directly against what Reddit once aimed to be?

A lot of these people volunteered their spare time to manage communities for no pay. Wondering how far downhill a lot of these subs will go with Spez putting himself in charge of everything.

This is why they need to link an alternative like Lemmy and encourage to share it around.

Reddit doesn't disallow mods from posting "Join us on Discord" and this will create a slow and steady move to a new platform.

This post seems somewhat disingenuous. One of the mods Cedarwolf posted his side of what happened 2 hours prior to this post appearing, and if we were to believe his side of the story the top mod who hasn't been active for a year just decided to join the blackout against other mods wishes.

Yes, it's two conflicting stories but he claims to have evidence that he's been inactive. Basically, people should look into this more than assume truth in the headline.

It feels reassuring being here in Lemmy away of that shit show.

They should tread lightly. Reddit in no way has the ability to function (edit: at least on short notice) without volunteer mods. To some degree they can find scabs, but I honestly don't know how many and how good.

I just returned for a couple of minutes and it’s a fucking shitshow. I don’t know if it has become worse or if it just feels like that because Lemmy is much more friendly, but Reddit seems to be much more toxic right now.

It is also so obvious that people are trying to use this as some kind of coup. Users interact with the thematic, get explained what the blackout is about, just to comment complete bs about it one comment later. They are acting dumb to gain momentum.

I really hope this will end up in a worldpolitics situation.

Oof, not a good look. We'll have to watch more of the larger subs to see if this happens to them too.

It's a 2 day blackout for god's sake, and it's nearly at the end of it! Was it really necessary to do that?

Unfortunately, Reddit can just keep doing that as often as they want. Fortunately though, there are few people who will actually be able to do a good job moderating especially for FREE. They will burn through the good candidates and have to rely on unqualified people to do a mediocre job. This will ruin the content quality and eventually kill the sub. So long term we may still win, but short term we will likely see little change. The problem is always the level of involvement of the general public.

Well here is me abandoning reddit after 10 years. At the end they can do whatever they want with reddit and i can choose in which platform waste my time.

We can only hope reddit dissappoints their moderators so much they'd rather moderate lemmy communities :)

i love that they're making this extreme choice over fucking advice animals which haven't been relevant in literally 10+years

I'll watch spez digg this grave. I'm not shocked, we have all seen it happen before.

This place feels real, and personally that's all that matters. Reddit has been plastic for a while now. I'm happy to watch the ceo handle it like such a stooge, it almost seems like he wants to tank the company before tencent eats it all up.

Fuck Reddit. But honestly I’m less and less invested with each passing day. I re-opened Apollo today and it’s already starting to feel old, foreign. I guess that means Lemmy is home now.

Saw this coming the moment the blackouts were being planned

This is extremely short-sighted on reddits part, elevating lower mods to leads can cause so much drama in a community particularly when the lower mods don't have experience, the lower mods will probably make basic mistakes that'll turn the average base away from the subreddit.

this is really going to bite reddit in the ass if they try it more its like trying to fix a leak by sticking random objects in the hole

Well good for them, they can have a lot of fun paying reddit staff to be the mods now.

Wait...the comment seems to indicate that the primary mod did not want to go dark, and an inactive mod came in and made it go dark. I understand being upset...but this does not seem like anything a Reddit admin would do?

So we can expect the mods of bigger subreddits to also lose their permissions? How will the admins manage to moderate 8k subs?

It isn't surprising at all, it's about hard money not about communities and fuzzy warm feelings. It seems everyone is working hard down at Reddit to make as much money as they can out of an IPO for a zombified carcass.

The way things are going R*ddit is going to become what Digg is today - a minimalist editor run link agreggator

Keep the blackout going. Even if they boot mods and reopen subs, don’t visit. I wonder how much traffic/revenue they have lost so far.

Not going back. Disgusting behaviour.

Welp, I'm officially never going back to reddit, might as well start deleting my account now...

Have fun paying for moderation or have Spam running rampant. That won't get you out of the red numbers, spez. Just fuel for the fire.

Lemmy should make itself as much like Reddit as it possibly can except for the small handful of money-grubbing cunts who'd rather destroy communities than allow them to exist without profiting from them.

Does that mean they're unmoderated now? r/worldpolotics here we come!

Gee, what a surprise that everyone called last week. Of course Reddit admins are booting uncooperative mods in favor of those that will un-private their subs, they have zero reason to be loyal to mods protesting against them. And they're actively losing advertising revenue for each sub that's dark.

The real way to protest this is to delete your Reddit account and never look back. Monthly active users is the only statistic that will force them to backtrack on any of the API pricing changes, and loads of people that have moved to Lemmy are actively using both platforms.

This is informative and unfortunate.

https://www.reddit.com/...

That's why we desperately need downvoting, making fake stories sink to the bottom.

my 2 'cents

this is how reddit dies. not with a whimper, but with a greedy CEO.

get fucked spez!

Mods should just reopen but refuse to moderate. Disable automod as well.

Duuuuuude they didn't wait long did they? And they attack r/adviceanimals, one of the core subs, even though it isn't one of the defaults anymore.

At this point I wouldn't be surprised if Steve Huffman brings back r/jailbait. The fucking dirty paedo.

They would want to test it on one subreddit first and see how it went. The quality will tank, but this is something they could get away with.

And I thought they wouldn't go any lower. It's disgusting how far they're willing to go - it's like they're so eager to prove us right.

It'll just lead to a general decline in sub quality.

I'm quite happy here now. Given up on reddit. The day Apollo's API key is deleted is the day I edit all of my comments and give up on the platform completely. It's strange I how feel no regret over saying that. It's just the way it's going to be.

It’s depressing that I’m not surprised one bit. At this point, I don’t even think it’s worth sticking around until 3PA shut down on the 30th.

Clickable link: https://i.imgur.com/I7G25aL.png

This is what we call scab behavior, Kids do not be like this mod, do not be a scabb, if you see a picket line do not cross it. If everyone else is striking join your fellows and strike with them.

I wonder if they saw a bunch of traffic trying to access advice animals and decided it was a good testing grounds for removing mods.

Reddit? Are they new? Never heard of it 🤣 Probably won't get very big

Greedy people fuckin' nice things up. Nothing new under the sun.

They did the same thing to admins of other major subreddits even before the blackout. They also removed initial posts regarding it on major subreddits. Thats why I chose to leave.

I was looking at the reddit protest stream when it happened. Since it only says it reopened, i was a bit sad that such a huge sub would withdraw their desicion.

This makes more sense, and its awful.

So much for all the "oh, it's not hurting our revenue" dismissals.

This is downright terrifying. A major escalation of the blackout and deleting your content - with the help of european law - is a nice response to that, if they do not step back. This is perhaps the most extreme measure to be taken, short of destroying the data center itself. An emptied reddit history is a massive loss of knowledge and perhaps questionably damaging for the outside world.

Apparently, a heck of a lost of drama involving this.

Link to reddit for those who wants to give traffic to reddit - https://old.reddit.com/...

bootlickers, inc.

I saw a lot of people predicting this before the blackout. I expect a lot of the mods will refuse to moderate.

That's insane. I honestly thought it was solely romours, like Spez editing messages on behalf of others (which I still don't believe in)

Edit: I believe it now though.

Actually I accidentally clicked a Reddit link on Google earlier today and (I don't remember the subreddit) my first thought was: I'm pretty sure this subreddit took part in the blackout so why can I see its posts like nothing happened?

Definitely called this. All the right wing trolls on Reddit are salivating at the thought of turning this into a coup by hopping into top mod spots in exchange for licking boot tread. The outcome is pretty obvious.

Anybody have a link to this post? I can't find it in the user's page.

At first I thought they chickened out, now somehow I am both relieved and extremely sad.

Admins in /r/modsupport were breaking records last week to tell mods who had a dormant top mod come back and private the sub that they would “resolve the issue”. Then after saying that they didn’t do anything for a few days. Guess they are gonna start doing that to the big subs to reopen them.

Can't say i didn't expect this.

Time to leave every single major subreddit.

I figured this would happen

fuck reddit, all thanks to spez and reddit admins

"Memes are good formats for taking complex ideas, then condensing them into something that is easy to digest and distribute"

Wow... that guy actually thinks that you can use advice animals to convey complex ideas. I'm at a loss for words.

Sad to see all of this happening

This was inevitable, unfortunately.

And of course the obligatory eff spez.

Hey. Will you look at that. Any interest in reddit just disappeared. Gg spez.

I called it, had a feeling they would lol

OMG Who saw that coming! /s

What a DICK.

It was only a matter of time...

Off topic, who owns/runs the servers here and how does it make money? I'm new I'm curious.

Trying to make the change easy.

I want to see them try!

Completely expected tbh

Are Reddit admins the sub owners or Reddit employees?

I wonder what will happen to the subreddits that had voted to black out for the week from the get- go?

Biggie knew. Treat everything like it’s your first day because nothing is guaranteed.

It was sort of expected, unfortunately. Let's see if they keep doing it to other subs and how things will go if they keep removing mods.

oh my god, what a turn of events. who would have thought?

This is huge! And should be shared far and wide! This sort of crap is why a single company can't be in charge: sooner or later some CEO some board member or whatever decides to pull some crap like this and thinks accountability is not applicable because he said so. This is why federation is a must in this day and age.

They did the same thing to admins of other major subreddits even before the blackout. They also removed initial posts regarding it on major subreddits.

literal assholes

That tampon-faced fuck.

That sucks. But the blackout has been horrible from a user standpoint.

There's a wealth of helpful information on Reddit that's just been obliterated from the internet now. Half the time when I'm searching for a solution for something I don't even click on Reddit anymore.

Weren't they already in control of the subs? There's 4k admins, apparently.

Yes I don't want reddit mods and admins taking over this place. When I left reddit I am leaving their mods too.

Commies!

Commies

BASED