A huge opportunity was missed by people running major communities to functionally degrade Reddit in at least the medium-term as a website.
There weren't really other places to go (most of the Lemmy instances got created around the API announcement), and changes to subreddits would have been reverted
They could revert them, but they couldn't replace how they run the communities. That's the thing. Reddit would've had to scramble to find hundreds, thousands of mods potentially who would be good fits for communities.
Agree. I came as a curious lurker willing to explore the wild internet and I settled in this new place for its opportunities rather than for its qualities. Would I have been posting regularly OC on Reddit, I would never have considered this place as an opportunity to replace it. Maybe I would have post on both to see where it went but it would have not be a very solid backup plan.
It was so disappointing to see mods buckling to the pressure. Like what're admins going to do, sue you? Ban you? I wouldn't want to be part of any platform that would behave that way.
I'd rather leave with a hundred die-hard community members than stay for ten thousands lemmings.
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Said this elsewhere, but:
What's interesting to me here regarding this, is Reddits current preparation timescale for the changes here. This isn't going to be enforced until March 31st, 2026. This tells me that Reddit would have been unprepared for a complete mass-walkout of community moderators during the 2023 Reddit API strikes. A large chunk of Reddit during that period was genuinely inaccessible. But after a few token gestures and a few examples made of some especially rebellious mod-teams, most of the striking moderators returned.
A huge opportunity was missed by people running major communities to functionally degrade Reddit in at least the medium-term as a website. You can't just hastily promote random people to replace moderators Reddit is either forced to remove or who leave voluntarily. The average person is likely too lazy, too arbitrary and too corrupt to effectively oversee communities of notable sizes.
People whine about terminally online moderators being power-hungry and garbage, but I can assure you hastily promoted randoms given the keys are far worse in most cases.
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