He's going full Elon.

He’s doing this on purpose.

He’s repurposing leftist talking points into a pro-corporatist clusterfuck as an attempt at populism. He knows that there are a fair number of people and communities on Reddit that will be overall supportive of these politics.

The idea is to get people thinking, “Yeah, I’ve heard that term before, it’s bad! And yeah, I’ve dealt with power-tripping mods before, so it must be true!” If they haven’t been paying attention to the finer points of the news around this (blackmail claims on C. Selig, gaslighting about 3rd party apps not wanting to work w/ Reddit, etc.), then this may be enough to get some people on Reddit, Inc.’s side. It worked for some people with Trump, for others with Musk, and with Huffman’s recent praise of Musk’s managerial style…

Talk about out of touch.

With this analogy Lemmy could be the sapling that one day will grow into a large tree!

He's a privileged white boy complaining about slavery while operating scheme to not pay his employees.

Read the poll again, reopen had negative 2300 votes

how are they protesting?

I think that goes for all authoritarians really, I mean, post WW2 east Germany was the German Democratic Republic, which was anything but democratic under Soviet occupation. Fascists for sure, but don't think authoritarian communists don't use the same playbook.

Democracy for the volunteers while Spez maintains the "landed gentry" only for himself. This shithead's lack of self awareness would be comically stupid if it were in any way comical.

Also I can't believe he doesn't see how problematic voting for mod privileges can be. There's a reason reddit has refused to allow users to vote out moderators in the past. If you allow voting, you allow outsidebrigadier, astroturfing, and also just petty mod squabbling. The solution reddit has always offered in the past was "create your own new subreddit for the idea you want and then get people to come over to it". In general it's worked. The existence of r/pics hasn't disallowed other picture-based subreddits from flourishing, same with r/funny and, well, actually funny subs.

Allowing votes on moderation just opens reddit up to a lot of shenanigans that I don't think the admin team is ready for.

Hahha right “the rebellion!”

I think there will be mods either way. There are too many lonely people desperate for any kind of recognition and lust for power.

What we'll have to see if how that actually works out

I'll start believing in Reddit's commitment to direct democracy when users will be able to also vote out admins and u/spez if they don't like their decisions.

Until then, it's just corporatism under the guise of some fluffy words.

I don't. I'm not a Reddit user (anymore).

Next up: Blasted.

Lol, more than half of my frontpage doesn't even show up, it's just the same subs over and over again. Made me check Lemmy more often

I've gone there a couple of times in the last few days to try to hunt down an invilte to tildes.net and it also feels like i'm doing something bad.

It’s just a matter of migrating them to a new platform. Lemmy has a small learning curve, but unfortunately it’s enough to turn off a lot of users. Hopefully with the influx of users, someone smarter than me can figure out how to streamline the user experience here.

Why on earth would he say that now?

Does he think the promise of more oppressive monetization is going to calm everyone down?

He said it, smiling maniacly as the interviewer clawed at his hands around her throat.

It definitely involved him putting a pinky to the corner of his mouth.

He probably had a hand free and was pleasuring himself.

Mr Burns voice: "Eeeexcelent"

A baby Yoda??

Some part of our brains knew we were losing the real people. It hasn't felt right there in awhile. I wonder how many bots we were talking to thinking they weren't.

I've commented more this week than the past year on there.

Tell me about it! I swear they have been making adjustments to their algorithms for the past months year.

Before thee protest, I've been getting increasingly annoyed at the content Reddit decides to show me. The subs I chose to follow are all great and often offer something engaging in the best ways possible, and finding a good piece of content there has never been an issue... expect for the past time, where I got what felt like pre-digested and advertiser-friendly posts that I was supposed to maybe vote on and keep scrolling.

I understand that business is about money, but seeing tech largely following the same practices and strategies just to keep pumping cash for execs to liquidate is so mind-numbing and obnoxious. That's gonna sound stupid, but sometimes I wish the tech people would just kick the finance people out of the field and do their own thing, which is what the average people like, too, simply because that's the conditions when really cool and enjoyable shit is born.

Or maybe we all should just collectively pile up some cash buy some land, build ourselves a self-sustainable settlement and get away from the hungry execs.

I went back there for like 3 minutes today and found myself getting angry at some stupid argument that didn't matter to me really but still got to me. I don't need that, I got enough irl. Lemmy et al. ain't perfect, but at least it's not that shithole.

I honestly found myself browsing Facebook more and more over the past several months, rather than Reddit. It just wasn't holding my interest like it used to. I was a Reddit user from summer '07 until June 11th, 2023, but the switch to the fediverse was easy. I've really enjoyed the last few days here.

He just need to hold it together long enough for the IPO. Catch his pay day, and then Reddit can die for all /u/Spez cares about the rotting husk he'll leave behind. Fuck him.

It's like watching a train wreck in slow motion. I cannot look away.

I won't lie, I'm kind of annoyed by the fact that the most active posts here are talking about reddit. Even so, here I am contributing to the "problem"

Oooh, there's only the Triple Sinister Dog Dare left! 😱😬

Don't even need to be that hardcore, just have some self respect. Spez made it clear what he thinks of mods and users. If you don't draw a line here they will just make the "peasants" eat more and more shit in the future.

The mods may/should be questioning why they bother. I think we'll see many leaving over time.

We'll see whether or not the 3PAs dying makes their jobs harder enough that they leave or not.

In the smallish sub I mod (~300k subs) the mods are discussing what to do. One will step down regardless of what happens. One is trying to migrate us to Lemmy, and the others have not made up their minds. From the outside it still looks like it's business as usual though.

Silence doesn't necessarily mean acceptance

So long so long so long and thanks