This should be a lesson to all remaining mods to stop putting their effort into that site. Reddit doesn’t care about who helped build it. They only care about making money for themselves.

What a shitty way to remove you. Completely uncalled for.

There does not seem to be a celebrities magazine here yet. You could make one and become a mod of it.

Thank you for your effort building a community on Reddit. It gave a lot of people enjoyment. I'm sorry that Reddit didn't treat you better.

I'm really sorry to hear that they did this to you. I went through something similar, but only as a poster.

There was a really famous Usenet poster called Humdog who, back in 1994, wrote a brilliant essay called Pandora's Vox: On Community in Cyberspace. It talks of how cyberspace, instead of doing away with hierarchy and creating equality, actually commodifies its users and transfers power to large corporations.

cyberspace is a mostly a silent place. in its silence it shows itself to be an expression of the mass. one might question the idea of silence in a place where millions of user-ids parade around like angels of light, looking to see whom they might, so to speak, consume. the silence is nonetheless present and it is most present, paradoxically at the moment that the user-id speaks. when the user-id posts to a board, it does so while dwelling within an illusion that no one is present. language in cyberspace is a frozen landscape.

i have seen many people spill their guts on-line, and i did so myself until, at last, i began to see that i had commodified myself. commodification means that you turn something into a product which has a money-value. in the nineteenth century, commodities were made in factories, which karl marx called “the means of production.” capitalists were people who owned the means of production, and the commodities were made by workers who were mostly exploited. i created my interior thoughts as a means of production for the corporation that owned the board i was posting to, and that commodity was being sold to other commodity/consumer entities as entertainment. that means that i sold my soul like a tennis shoe and i derived no profit from the sale of my soul. people who post frequently on boards appear to know that they are factory equipment and tennis shoes, and sometimes trade sends and email about how their contributions are not appreciated by management.

You can read it all here:
https://archive.org/...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmen_Hermosillo

It really does show that none of this is new. It's what the internet really always has been.

Welcome aboard! Glad to have you here!

Also, eff spez!

I can't imagine how it feels to put so many hours into building a thriving community just to have it thanklessly ripped from your hands.

As an 12 year reddit user who almost never posted or commented, thank you for all of the hard work you and others like you put in to make reddit as great as it was.

Hopefully fediverse will prove more resistant to greedy corporate interests in the years to come. I'm looking forward to building this new community with all of you!

If you're the sole-mod of a sub - always add like 4 of your own alt-accounts as mods below you

I was added as a mod to one sub without sub-settings permissions and the main mod account was deleted, so I deleted all the posts and stickied a text-comment saying 2023 blackout, message mods to join private community hehe~

Damn, that's extremely shitty and I agree that someday we will see the ashes of reddit being scattered in the digital wind

That’s just insane. Even if the content is good.. I’m just not sure I could justify going back to a place like that.

Already full at work building something better, so happy to have another experienced power user among our ranks!

Reddit won't die in a big catastrophic Digg moment, that was a rare event that doesn't usually happen so blatantly.

However, Reddit has reached its high water mark though, I absolutely agree. It'll slowly continue to bleed good, contributing power users like yourself in favor of becoming an algorithm-run mass-appeal corporate shit hole just like Facebook. It is very sad to see moderators like yourself being treated so poorly though and I hope you stick around here at least somewhat even if it's just for your own sanity.

I'm so sorry. It's a real loss of something you valued and took pride in. It's also a loss of community. Be kind to yourself while you mourn the loss. (We're all feeling it to some degree.) But you have a fresh, new community right here for you.

Damn. I didn't really expect Reddit to sink this fast, though I suspected the IPO would drive bad habits. As always, fuck u/spez, crashes the Titanic to claim the insurance policy. Greedy asshole.

There is a thread in your sub about this here I added the text from this thread too it. There is also a link to Kbin It is clear that the people in charge of Reddit are heartless and at this point really really worried because you do not start doing this shit until it feels like you have no other options and you are scared. Time for us to double down.

Thanks for your hard work and commitment. I was a 10 year user on Reddit and now I am dipping my feet here. Thing is reddit I was always a lurker and here I feel like I can post and it means something. The good will and actual content in the conversations are a breath of fresh air. Thanks everyone for being so welcoming.

I mean, it is obvious that the reddit owners and hence admins primarily care about subs being open. They don’t really care about making your work harder or requiring more active moderation.

But I am very curious, why would you even go to all the length to work on a bot for 4-6 weeks just so you can make the people who treat you like shit more money?

To be quite honest, I suspect the whole shebang will end how Huffman expects for the most part. Most users don’t care and the people who do care, primarily the mods are too addicted to step away or actually behave in a way that will have long lasting effects.

Nevertheless, sucks they did you dirty like that, but not unexpected given your response and reddits enshitification.

We are happy to have you. We need as many contributors here as we can get.

At least we have something better now... Kbin seems to be better all around, with a great pwa for phone, no need for Reddit's crap.

@vaprz Sorry this happened to you. I'm not surprised. Mods are going to be thrown over the side at an accelerating rate IMO. The protest is indeed hurting F u/spez otherwise he wouldn't have to do this. My opinion is that he will do whatever it takes to try to get his numbers back up and his ability to sell Reddit and buy his island depends on it.

Expected behavior from Steve Huffman's lackeys.

I’m glad I was forced to remove my Reddit crutch and dive in full force.

Pretty much the silver lining in all this. Best of luck to you and your adventures here in the Fediverse.

I really hope the decline clearly shows before Reddits IPO. If Spqz and co. are allowed to profit from this, then the future looks bleak...

I'm glad a good experienced mod has come over from reddit. Having good content providers here will help speed reddits demise.

Terrible mate, it sucks that you got the shit end of the stick. Reddit admins are putting the squeeze on heaps of mods, they're not interested in resolving any issues, just silencing opposition.

It's a shame that something you put that much time and effort in has all of a sudden vanished, hopefully you find a new home / community here.

The tonedeafness of this C-suite is remarkable. And like twitter, I'm stunned at how quickly they are steering the clown car off the cliff.

I liked twitter, despite its flaws. I liked reddit too--some of it was a swamp, but you could have your little island and mostly be ok. Like most tools they could be used for good or bad, and you could focus on the good.

But they flushed all of the good. What a really stupid plan.

The materials that make up the earth could only have been formed in the supernova of a 3rd or 4th generation star that has coalesced, ignited, lived, and died in this place since the birth of the universe.

The universe in general is expected to continue on for several billion TIMES longer than it has so far.

The disintegration of reddit seeds the raw materials for the next good thing.

holy fuck

i'm just some asshole with a 13+ year old account that would bitch and moan in the comments section

i can't imagine dedicating so much of my time to build a wonderful community and then being unceremoniously cast away as part of a large purge of dissent

And the Braindrain continues…

Welcome aboard!

I have to imagine the reason would have been this

This is a stickied comment on the pinned post from a deleted account around 11 hours ago. So I am assuming it was you. If I had to guess admin either decided to do it or another mod in that team complained to the admins because they wanted to take control.

Did you already create a community here on lemmy/kbin?

Word. Welcome aboard!

Fuck Reddit!! Fuck spez!! 🖕🖕

Friend, is there any truth to the rumours of a lawsuit from current and former mods against Reddit, for back pay? I'm pretty convinced there's a case there, and your story is a prime example. One argument from Reddit might be that you and the community were the primary beneficiaries of your volunteer labour, but for Reddit to take your mod powers unilaterally sure makes them look like an employer rather than a maintainer of a public forum.

In the US, there are no circumstances under which a private for-profit company can legally accept volunteer labour like that. Further strengthening your case would be how much Facebook pays for moderation of their platform. Reddit built an entire business on the backs of people like you, and your stake in that should be recognised and compensated.

I'm very glad that you decided to join us in the fediverse. Being a reddit refugee myself, I thank you for all your hard work for the reddit community

I think this is the real fall out not the subreddits going dark, the loss of users. I deleted my account because when I did use Reddit most of my time was spent avoiding toxic users rather than enjoying the platform.

I just checked out that sub. Nothing of value will be lost.

I just deleted my account on Reddit. This behavior is not acceptable anymore at all. Sorry for what happened to you, this must feel disappointing and betraying having put so much of yourself into the platform that simply kicked your out of the door.

Respect, brother/sister. Hope you'll find an enjoyable new playground here.

This is a really shitty thing they did. Especially if you have been there so long.

I manually deleted all of my comments from the past 13 years because I don't trust an app to complete that process. It took a long time, partly because I revisited a few threads along the way. I'm feeling great about my content being unavailable to Reddit, regardless of whether anyone cares or misses it.

Yes, I do miss Reddit. No, I will not go back. Not because I don't find any value in it -- I do -- but because my personal sense of justice gets in the way of wanting to contribute any longer. The time I used to spend scanning Reddit for new information or drama or funny anecdotes is now spent thinking about how I can contribute to my community in other ways.

Wow, really shitty of them to not even bother reaching out.

I'm so sorry for what they did. I hope you can feel at home on the Fediverse. Starting over sucks so bad, but I'm sure you will find awesome people here. Heck probably the same awesome people as there!

You add years upon years of value, get nothing more than a sense of fulfillment while they get paid, and get booted out.

I’m sorry, man. That has to sting.

Sorry that this happened to you, must be very frustrating.

Reddit has shown its true face. There's no way back. I deleted my accounts last week and Lemmy has filled the gap and much more.

All the best. Cheers

How do you determine your user number?

The lesson is that you don't put time and energy into something unless you own the website. If you're serious about moderating your own lemmy community, get your own domain, get your own hosting, and set it up yourself.

Let the tyranny begin.

So many stories like yours are coming out. Thanks for sharing.

The momentum definitely seems to swinging Lenny’s way. Glad to see it.

That’s messed up! Sorry to hear!

Wow. That really sucks.

Welcome to the fediverse, though!

Sorry this happened to you. You deserve better.

Im right there with you man. I used reddit for over a decade and this did it for me. The fact that this company is pivoting from a positive open inclusive place to a 'Elon is doing it right and we want to copy that' approach is insanity. I guess spez saw that the dumpster fire approach seems to be working for Elon (well if you consider tanking a billion dollar company an effective strategy at least).

I don't know what the answer is. Where an equivalent site can be found. So far this has been the closest. It's obvious work still needs to be done but fundimentally lemmy corrected the major issues facing reddit which is putting too much control in the hands of a malignant narcissist.

Decentralization is obviously the future of the internet and lemmy is leading the way there.

I'm sorry for what they put you through. I hope you find more joy here.

@vaprzThe Fediverse is definitely the way to go for true freedom and inclusivity. Are there any other Reddit horror stories out there? Share your experiences

Absolutely terrible. Welcome to the fediverse though. Hope you’ll rebuild!

I'm glad you left reddit and you will find a much healthier community here I think. People seem happy and contribute a lot. :)

I somehow ended up as the sole moderator for r/Corfu. It's a VERY slow subreddit. I'm not sure if I should ignore it, or if there's something I can do with the tiny lever of 'power'.