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LinkOpensChest_wav 257 points 3 years ago

Tbh everyone just needs to leave reddit

Let the bots take over

It's always been Stormfront 2.0 anyway

Fuck reddit

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minnieo 115 points 3 years ago

Yes, at this point, there is really no fucking saving it or hoping for changes, they will go as far as they need to go to get their profits back up. It must be abandoned. The only time I ever spend on reddit is to convince people to migrate to kbin or lemmy (nicely, dont be annoying)

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OtakuAltair 52 points 3 years ago

I find that a large majority of redditors are still somehow completely clueless about what's happening.

So I made this little formatted summary of events inviting confused redditors to lemmy/kbin if anyone wants to copy/paste; seems to get people to understand.

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ILeftReddit 22 points 3 years ago

@OtakuAltair At this point I don't care about redittors or reddit. It can go on to be wildly successful, doesn't matter to me, I've moved on.

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OtakuAltair 14 points 3 years ago

Alot of us wouldn't be on here either if it wasn't explained to us; I think the confused people deserve at least an explanation too

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AmidFuror 10 points 3 years ago

Username checks out?

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drinkleadsoup 1 point 3 years ago

Same. It's like being over an ex. I don't have to care anymore.

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Mereo 18 points 3 years ago

Unfortunately, the majority will not care. Reddit's app ranks first in iOS' app store after Twitter. This is what Reddit wants, people to stop using third-party apps so that they can easily target ads to users.

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OtakuAltair 11 points 3 years ago

Even a small portion of users switching to Lemmy/kbin (like us) will mean more competition in the long run.

Specially with great looking ios apps like Artemis in the works that you could easily recommend

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Noxvento 2 points 3 years ago

And sell their data.

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gk98s 10 points 3 years ago

I had no idea lemmy was a thing until r/piracy. More big subs need to switch

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OtakuAltair 3 points 3 years ago

And more people to copy/paste summaries like that! People can't switch if they don't know.

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drinkleadsoup 1 point 3 years ago

I made my Lemmy account when Spez killed the Chapo sub. Now I'm glad it has more content.

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Dreckard 32 points 3 years ago

What really worked for me was the https://sub.rehab website. When I found that, it made me realize I need to stick with the people who actually built the subs I love -- the mods. Here I am.

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OtakuAltair 7 points 3 years ago

Yup. The good ui really helps sell how big the move is

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Whirlgirl9 5 points 3 years ago

this is great! thank you!

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mayglan 1 point 3 years ago

Amazing, thank you for posting this.

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zd -1 points 3 years ago

My issue with all of this is everything is scattered all over the place now. Many of my followed reddit subs are on lemmy and then some are on other platforms and it's too much to keep track of. So my followed content is going to drop off a lot in general - I refuse to sign up for Lemmy. The name alone annoys me.

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minnieo 2 points 3 years ago

as long as they move to federated sites, its fine, you can access them all from kbin as usual. but if they decide to make their own site, or go somewhere centralized (ew) then yea, not much we can do abt that

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danc4498 25 points 3 years ago

Reddit's relevance came from the people that used the app, not the app itself. If Reddit wants to fuck over the people that made the app what it is today, they will end up useless.

Reddit is not like Twitter in that it thrived from mass population of people using it. It thrived from quality users that provided quality content.

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MoonRocketeer 6 points 3 years ago

I just hope this Reddit migration doesn't turn out like South Park's Walmart skit lol. The town boycotts walmart and then supports a small business only for it to become walmart too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hq7ysA7agNE

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minnieo 5 points 3 years ago

it wont happen because the fediverse is decentralized. if this instance goes to shit, we simply move on to another, without needing to abandon the entire platform

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Sir_Kevin 3 points 3 years ago

This is why I don't want to push too hard to bring the masses here. If every derp from reddit shows up it's just going to dilute the quality of lemmy.

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kingthrillgore 2 points 3 years ago

Agreed.

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btaf45 2 points 3 years ago

That is mildly interesting.

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tal 3 points 3 years ago

Ehhh. I think that there's value to having a large userbase. First, a large userbase means that there are going to tend to be more people to provide quality content. Second, some people contribute content because they want to reach a large audience -- I understand that this is one reason that /r/askhistorians decided not to participate.

None of this is to say that this won't have a negative impact on Reddit. And I think that the observation, which I've seen some other places, is that these changes probably disproportionately impacts people who were contributing content. Just that I don't think that one can reduce the value of having a large userbase to nil either.

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dismalnow 18 points 3 years ago

@LinkOpensChest_wav

@minnieo

It's always been Stormfront 2.0 anyway

Exception taken.

Don't get me wrong: it has been an absolute dogshit downward spiral for at least the last five years, but what it has become bares almost no resemblance to what it was 15 years ago - or even 8 years ago.

It had great potential and utility. All of it squandered via some of the worst decisions possible. Each of which ignored the current user base in favor of a quick buck.

It needs to be taken out behind the barn and shot.

Echoing: Fuck Reddit.

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LinkOpensChest_wav -4 points 3 years ago

When I joined in 2011, it was already a bastion of pedophilia and bigotry, so I'm not sure which era you're talking about

In my experience, reddit has always been a dogshit web site

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dismalnow 7 points 3 years ago

I understand now, and you're certainly entitled to your opinion.

That type of content comes with the territory, and could easily be avoided until relatively recently if you didn't go looking for it.

What was arguably the most diverse and far reaching collection of individual message boards cannot be filed away as a hyperbolic monolith of the perceived horrors such a place will inevitably contain.

Whatever your interest, reddit had a lively discussion for it. The cancer you describe is a result of the society it allowed to publish. Further, it metastisized from it's self-contained cesspools when they were closed.

It's clear that either your experience on the site is narrow, while the site is extremely wide - or you're retconning your prior experience based upon your current opinion.

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ErraticDragon 17 points 3 years ago

You know how there are posts all over Reddit (and even all over here) saying "what's with the porn on r/interestingasfuck?" or "I don't know what's going on with John Oliver"?

It's because of them that the "protests" must continue. Raising awareness is the point. Only a small percentage even know what's going on.

Reddit would love for everyone to quietly go away, they'll pretend nothing happened and move on with a small chunk of users missing but still growing.

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Harry 16 points 3 years ago

I just deleted my reddit account. Fuck that bs.

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LinkOpensChest_wav 2 points 3 years ago

I've overwritten anything useful from mine, and I'll be deleting mine after June 30. Not that I am using reddit, but I want to contribute to that drop in users that will come once 3PA are disabled.

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okbin 13 points 3 years ago

they won't

i tried to move my 100k subscriber sub to kbin (i also offered two different chatrooms)

6 came to kbin and people started attacking me for having the sub closed (one person even resorted to transphobia like jesus fucking christ) and being "political" and one person even made their own version of my subreddit

moving is too much work (it's actually not that much work, but since we now need two videos playing at the same time and can only watch those vids for 30 seconds, everything is "too much work"). that's why people are still on facebook, twitter, instagram, and tiktok.

i'm very glad there's an acceptable amount of activity on the "threadiverse" right now... but i just don't have hope that everyone will leave.

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samus12345 19 points 3 years ago

I think your post demonstrates that it's a good thing everyone won't be coming here.

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Ataraxia 4 points 3 years ago

Right. Who wants to have a community full of those kinds of people.

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okbin 3 points 3 years ago

kbin has seemed pretty chill so far

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LinkOpensChest_wav 6 points 3 years ago

I'm not sure what the skill issue is on that sub, but I, a moron, had no more trouble coming here than I did navigating reddit

Those are either bootlickers or bots, who can safely be disregarded

74% of reddit were ignorant assholes anyway, so no loss

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nickapos 3 points 3 years ago

@okbin@kbin.social it’s ok, people will gradually move out as Reddit deteriorates. Eventually most interesting people will be elsewhere, the platform will still exist but it will be an empty shell.
The important thing is for threadiverse to take flight and acquire a sustainable size, the rest will happen in time.

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millions 1 point 3 years ago

Guessing it’s an owl house sub judging by your profile pic?

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okbin 1 point 3 years ago

nope. BPDmemes... which is just fucking sad because BPD is associated with identity issues including gender identity, so in some sense being transphobic can be ableist in that context as well.

i'm letting it go, they were probably just really dysregulated (as is the nature of this illness). but i did ban them for all of pride month.

however, my friend and i HAVE seen transphobia in the owl house community and we don't understand?????? there are literally multiple trans characters on the show like why would you be transphobic if you're a fan you. walnut

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density 12 points 3 years ago

PSA: The shitty website this person mentioned bears NO RESEMBLANCE to reddit.

It's always been S---------- 2.0 anyway

that is a really fucked up thing to say. idk who you are or what are your motivations.

making an equivalency between reddit and a 100% white supremacist nazi website is:

a) promoting that website

b) saying that website is similar to reddit. Does S----------- have the variety of users and topics as reddit? No! Whatever your criticism of reddit, however over tolerant reddit was of some really shitty communities, it was not founded explicitly and exclusively as a way of promoting genocide and violence.

Your comparison serves only to uplift S------------. Which may or may not be your intention.

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LinkOpensChest_wav -2 points 3 years ago

It's been overrun by white supremacists since I first joined in 2011, and that's never changed.

Check any popular sub on r/all, and they're the prevailing voice that's never silenced. r/PublicFreakout, r/mildlyinfuriating, r/interestingasfuck, r/AskReddit and r/unpopularopinion are just a few examples of subreddits where white supremacists run rampant. It's so bad that I deleted my first account due to receiving weekly homophobic death threats, which went ignored by the mods and admins.

Reddit has always been a bastion of white supremacy and pedophilia under the guise of "free speech." That's demonstrably true. The whole "leans left" thing is just more propaganda.

Edit: I maintain that reddit was founded specifically to platform hate speech. It's certainly been consistently pursuing that goal

But you are correct in saying that reddit is not the same as Stormfront. It is much worse than Stormfront in that most users don't perceive the white supremacist subtext in the majority of threads on popular subs

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5redie8 3 points 3 years ago

Were we even using the same site? What the fuck are you talking about?

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someguy3 10 points 3 years ago

Ironically this API issue will kill bots, which was needed.

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Yewb 54 points 3 years ago

It will only slow them temporarily you don't need api for bots

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troybot 35 points 3 years ago

Correct. Now the bots will be constantly scraping the pages of every post which will be a much bigger burden on their servers.

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Skray 21 points 3 years ago

It's funny, years ago websites switched to openly available APIs specifically to lessen server burden because of bots. Now they're swapping away from APIs because of bots, but those bots are just gonna go back to scraping.

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cptapathetic 17 points 3 years ago

Sounds like Reddit has a skill issue.

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Yewb 14 points 3 years ago

Exactly spez forgot why they needed an api

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Kichae 29 points 3 years ago

Yeah, it'll only kill the useful ones in the long run.

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CoderKat 17 points 3 years ago

Yeah. The unethical bots will just use scrapers, as they already do for the many websites that don't offer APIs. They're already violating ToS, so they don't care. Ethical ones won't have that option (at least not past the fairly low quota).

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ErraticDragon 11 points 3 years ago

From my understanding, they already aren't using the API.

If the spam bots were using the API, then Reddit would have been able to shut them down trivially. Part of logging in via API requires a "client ID" that uniquely identifies the creator of the app/bot being used.

They could theoretically have each bot account create its own client ID, but even that would be a pretty obvious thing to look for.

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HidingCat 3 points 3 years ago

Spam bots don't really need the API access level that calls for the increased fees.

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LinkOpensChest_wav 1 point 3 years ago

Nah bots will still function

You think they're asking permission to access the API? lol

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zeda 9 points 3 years ago

Yep, finally using this site lol. Admins have gone full dictator over there.

So we get a boost and upvote here eh? Neat

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JWBananas 6 points 3 years ago

Upvote = Like
Boost = Retweet

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Gabbro 4 points 3 years ago

Which I still find weird because I never followed anyone on my anti-social media anyway.

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AdmiralSnackbar 2 points 3 years ago

My understanding is that upvotes don't do anything themselves, boost functions like a reddit upvote in that it will bring a comment or article to the top of the queue. I use it as a 'people should see this' button.

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JWBananas 1 point 3 years ago

You can think of kbin as a hybrid of Lemmy and Mastodon (and it federates with both through ActivityPub). It has interfaces both for communities (magazines) and for uncategorized posts/status updates/tweets (microblogs).

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liminis 7 points 3 years ago

The only good that can truly come of this at this stage is sabotaging Huffman's hopes of cashing out for a second time, after he sold his stake for a ""mere"" 10 million back in the day.

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LinkOpensChest_wav 5 points 3 years ago

Imagine having more money than anyone can spend in a lifetime and users who create the content for you. All you have to do is sit on your ass and do and say nothing, but then imagine what a pants-on-head stupid fool you'd have to be to do anything to mess that up, to let your ego totally disrupt the sweet deal you've got going. That's Steve Huffman -- the king of all losers.

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Harry 6 points 3 years ago

That is the solution.

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stepheneb 6 points 3 years ago

@LinkOpensChest_wav @minnieo delete all your posts and comments first. I did it manually … it was interesting to all those bits float by.

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LinkOpensChest_wav 4 points 3 years ago

I used Power Delete Suite, and I overwrote my comments instead of merely deleting. That makes the data even less useful to reddit.

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stepheneb 4 points 3 years ago

@LinkOpensChest_wav That makes total sense in order to make reddit less valuable. It only took me an hour and I did it manually because wanted to see my comments -- there were many kind and interesting things I wrote. It was kind of sad and it also felt right to just go.

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victron 6 points 3 years ago

I'm eager to see how reddit becomes a steaming turd after June 30th, that imbecile is gonna end up with nothing of value in his hands. Let's see where that profit comes from then

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samus12345 6 points 3 years ago

It will be another giant soulless site for the masses to endlessly scroll and see the same tired reposts and memes. They're welcome to it.

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Buelldozer 5 points 3 years ago

Let it burn? Sure. Stormfront 2.0? C'mon now...

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52fighters 3 points 3 years ago

I could see some disgruntled users intentionally trolling and spamming the subs just to trash it in revenge for what Reddit is doing to them.

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MementoMori_ 1 point 3 years ago

did you see that one guy’s hairy butthole? lmao

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IninewCrow 3 points 3 years ago

Also ... Reddit is a private business where people were allowed to come in to chat and talk ... don't act surprised when the owners and managers change their minds for whatever reason and decide to kick you out.

It's the company's space, like the lobby of a shopping mall ... people are freely allowed to come in, sit down and chat .. don't be surprised if the owners of the mall decide one day that they no longer like you any more and bring security in to escort you out.

You have no rights or privileges on a private social media site ... you have temporary permissions .. and those can be changed, disregarded, forgotten or done away with at the discretion of the owners at any time for any reason.

LEAVE REDDIT ... you're on someone else's lawn and they don't like you any more.

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zd 1 point 3 years ago

Stormfront 2.0? lol what?

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nonexcludable 89 points 3 years ago

Jesus, this is escalating fast. I never actually thought admins would go to such crazy lengths. Such pathetic desperation!

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The_Empty_Tuple 52 points 3 years ago

I fully expected Reddit to fight dirty, but it's still surreal watching the iron hand come down against the community. Silver lining, I hope this helps accelerate the migration to the fediverse.

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nonexcludable 28 points 3 years ago

I remember ten years ago sharing beers with admins who visited London. Back when there was a push for developing local communities and Global Reddit Meetup Day. There was good vibes and a feeling of mutual respect.

I met my wife through Reddit.

I still have so much affection for the site in my heart.

It's just wild to me how much has changed.

Really glad I never got that Snoo tattoo now.

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The_Empty_Tuple 18 points 3 years ago

Reddit isn't the first online community I watched outgrow itself into the grave. I guess it's just the cycle of social media. Here's hoping this time's different.

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livejamie 1 point 3 years ago

Myspace, Livejournal, Facebook, Digg, Twitter, Reddit

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kinyutaka 13 points 3 years ago

The exact reason not to get tattoos of weird corporate shit.

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abff08f4813c 23 points 3 years ago

We knew that this was a possibility since day one. The mods took a stand anyways, risking it all for the community. Still a shame to see it happen.

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someguy3 4 points 3 years ago

What's there to risk? Their unpaid labor? This is what spez doesn't seem to realize

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abff08f4813c 1 point 3 years ago

Well, getting locked out is no fun. But yeah, you're right, reddit loses out more (on the unpaid labour of love).

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Thalyssa 13 points 3 years ago

"The protests didn't do anything"

"Waaah, my ad reveue 😭"

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patchw3rk 53 points 3 years ago

Spez: 'Reddit is a democracy!'

Also Spez:

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lich_hegemon 1 point 3 years ago

Reddit: you must do what the community wants

Reddit: no, not like that

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someguy3 45 points 3 years ago

iS tHiS hOw I bUilD gOoDwIlL wItH vOlUnTeEr MoDs?

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danc4498 4 points 3 years ago

Surprised he hasn't started charging mods a fee to use mod tools

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DBT 30 points 3 years ago

Looks like they did the same with /r/interestingasfuck

RIP Reddit lol

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exohuman 3 points 3 years ago

I sorted by new and the nsfw posts are coming in as of 1 hour ago.

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meat_popsicle 30 points 3 years ago

If Reddit is taking the mantle of determining valid content and is editing and changing posts for users without their consent, doesn’t that run the risk they fall afoul of the Safe Harbor clause of DMCA?

IMO they’re getting mighty close to editorial control.

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Longjonsiiver 12 points 3 years ago

You are definitely onto something. Section 230 is what keeps Reddit alive, get rid of Section 230 protection of reddit GG.

Best course of action, file a complaint that Reddit Inc. Filed falsified documents with the Supreme Court on January 2023. They should not be able to use section 230 as a form of defense anymore, now that Reddit has constantly removed mods and interfered with subbreddits. FYI I modded the original r/EASportsFC and Reddit admins gifted to it r/fifa been looking into this for awhile, but I also eat crayons and not a laywer.

Filed January 2023 with Supreme Court

Reddit, Inc. is a community of online communities.
Reddit provides a platform for Internet users (called
“Redditors”) to connect with each other in communities (called “subreddits”) that are based on shared interests. 2 Reddit is one of the most popular sites on the Internet, with more than 50 million active users every day. But Reddit’s
approach to content moderation makes it different
from many social media companies. As explained below, Reddit relies on a bottom-up, community-based approach where individual users—not the company—take the lead.

Redditors create and organize their own subreddits devoted to their specific interests. They establish their own rules governing what content is acceptable within their subreddit. And those rules are enforced by users themselves.Redditors also directly control the degree to which user-generated content items like posts, comments, and
media are visible on the platform. The display of content on Reddit is thus primarily driven by humans—not by centralized algorithms.

https://www.justice.gov/...

Tldr - fuck reddit.

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Melpomene 10 points 3 years ago

Ooh, an interesting theory, though we'd need an actionable scenario to test it. But in theory ...I think so. Moderation itself no, filtering posts or editing out words or phrases no, but editing posts in a way that changes the intent / message might run afoul of Section 230. Unclear if the courts would apply it per post or for Reddit as a whole, though.

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MelancholikhPatata 28 points 3 years ago
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fuser 27 points 3 years ago

"The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater." - Frank Zappa

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JoeKrogan 7 points 3 years ago

That's it. We are not free, just free range.

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VubDapple 1 point 3 years ago

Brilliant and prophetic man. Also see the song "dumb all over"

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Jcb2016 27 points 3 years ago

u/spez is a Dictator

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abff08f4813c 26 points 3 years ago

Outrageous! We should invite the mod team here

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Thalyssa 18 points 3 years ago

The dumbfuck bootlickers who're "yay my content coming back" are fucking cringe. I hope the new people who mod the subs are alt-right trash who will push their shitty ideology onto the subs.

Good riddance.

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LinkOpensChest_wav 1 point 3 years ago

I had some awards left, and I gave them to the shittiest most harmful spambots I could find on r/all

That web site can eat my ass

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VubDapple 1 point 3 years ago

Naw, that's not good for society. But I get your anger.

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Nougat 17 points 3 years ago

This morning's news about the r/mildlyinteresting team being reinstated and unsuspended by a different admin - that's confirmation that there's internal conflict going on. Protests don't work, my ass.

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MorksEgg 7 points 3 years ago

It would be nice to see some some of the admins go rogue also. I know it's a lot to ask for people to sacrifice their jobs but some people still have ethics. And some people are in a positions where they can leave their job and pick up another one within hours or days if they're in the demanding field.

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Nougat 2 points 3 years ago

We might see someone break from the admin team, quietly or not-so-quietly. I hope for the latter, of course.

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Kushan 2 points 3 years ago

Yeah but they might also get fired for it and that helps nobody.

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Nougat 1 point 3 years ago

I was unclear. By "break" I meant quit working at reddit. Such a "breaker" might do so without explanation, with private explanation (which could leak), or with public explanation.

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Kept7963 3 points 3 years ago

You know protests don't work, because the people in power are telling you protests don't work.

I must admit I was a bit skeptical about whether the protest will work, especially since from the beginning there was a 48h deadline on it, which set us up for failure.

But the way the community has rallied around this cause makes me so proud.

Reddit the corporate entity is failing us, but they're learning that they only have power because the community chose them. Wish them good luck with their upcoming IPO with reddit currently being a dumpster fire.

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Nougat 1 point 3 years ago

If it wasn't working, we wouldn't see subs forced open, subs forced back to SFW, mod teams summarily demodded and suspended, "fuck spez" comments being disallowed - and there's surely more to come.

Oh, it's working.

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Liempong_pagong 0 points 3 years ago

Or its a good cop bad cop act.

Good sdmin offers suggestions to mod, then mods comply due to gratitude.

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Nougat 1 point 3 years ago

That presumes there was insight and planning, neither of which reddit seems to have.

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adamthinks 17 points 3 years ago

The most mindboggling thing about all of this to me is if Reddit had just improved their own app to be up to par with the multitude of 3rd party apps out there, none of this would have been an issue. They could've migrated everyone over to the official app easily with just a better experience. If a single person can wrangle an app together that outperforms the official one in a month, Reddit has no excuses. Personally, I'm delighted all of this has happened, as it's allowed for multiple viable alternatives to be populated. Which I've been wanting for a very very long time.

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grue 5 points 3 years ago

Making a better user experience is fundamentally incompatible with Reddit's goal, which is to forcibly milk users for ad impressions. A first-party app better then the third-party ones was never going to happen.

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korny 5 points 3 years ago

It really could have been a symbiotic relationship with the third party app devs. But Reddit went all psycho and seems to have taken the API push back personally.

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Hopps 2 points 3 years ago

They could have made their app better in so many ways. They could have hired some of these other app developers to work on different theme selections for their own app.

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michikade 16 points 3 years ago

According to the comments of that thread, they’ve removed the moderator team for r/interestingasfuck and r/tihi too.

Looks like they’re going after the ones that went NSFW but I don’t want to spend enough time trying to find all the rest of them.

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finder585 10 points 3 years ago

Looks like going NSFW is an effective form of protest.

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Senseibu 1 point 3 years ago

Forumula1 went NSFW lets see what happens there

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Casmael 16 points 3 years ago

Wow this is pretty desperate stuff

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bionicjoey 16 points 3 years ago

"The beatings will continue until morale improves"

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lixus98 16 points 3 years ago

Wow, I never thought I'd see the day where Reddit would remove entire mod teams.
I guess they were right when they said:

The r/WatchRedditDie moderator team regrets to inform our community that we have, in fact, watched Reddit die...

Reddit died and we watched it.

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AlmightySnoo 15 points 3 years ago

I have to add though that the form of protest proposed by that mod team is pathetic.

"only YOUR pictures of suggestive vegetables, must still be OC"

Either shut the sub down or burn that shit down by turning it into a porn sub. This little "we're gonna be creative, we're gonna allow suggestive vegetables!" mischief is pathetic af.

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kokoapadoa 8 points 3 years ago

I mean the fact it was a pathetic protest method and and admins still shot it down speaks leagues about how much they care about their users. I don't say this word lightly: the admins are snowflakes.

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skogens_ro 3 points 3 years ago

Marking the sub as nsfw affects their ad revenue, that's is the only reason they care.

Doing stuff like posting pictures of suggestive veg or John Oliver seems like a way for mods to protest without driving as many users away.

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IsThisLemmyOpen 15 points 3 years ago
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myersguy 14 points 3 years ago

Surely they can't survive after this, right? Like, people can't be okay with this.

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Player2 12 points 3 years ago

I guess they're betting on most casual users to just not notice or care enough

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abff08f4813c 3 points 3 years ago

Exactly this, unfortunately.

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samus12345 3 points 3 years ago

And they're right. Let them have Reddit, they deserve it.

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overzeetop 6 points 3 years ago

Look, there are 30 million r/pics subscribers and 50,000 voted to go SJO. Reddit is mostly lurkers and scrollers, and they provide nothing but the eyeballs. 80% of the front page (and I’m being generous) could be completely recreated using only meme/pic/video reposts and newscrawler bots posting stories from the top 40 retail news outlets (let’s face it - every WaPo, Hill, Verge, etc. story gets posted by a “user” within minutes of publication already).

The old reddit was interaction based. New reddit is mindless media consumption. We’re better here and the thumbflickers can join us or not but they don’t add anything to the fediverse except cost. It will take a couple of years to transition, but if the people who value help and discourse can stick it out here for 6 months we really will have a better reddit. With blackjack and hookers, too.

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Ockniel 4 points 3 years ago

Just a handful of people will know, so it doesn't matter.

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c3VjayBteSBhc3MK 4 points 3 years ago

It's staggering the amount of people that are fine with things and just want it to go back to normal

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Skray 6 points 3 years ago

Too many users on reddit love this because they hate mods and think reddit is somehow going to get rid of moderation when reddit is trying to be advertiser friendly.

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zekiz 1 point 3 years ago

People are ok with this and even if not, they’ll forget it in a few months. Remember when YouTube removed the dislike button? Or surveys? Or forced more ads onto its users?

Nobody is talking about that anymore (except maybe the ads part)

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ImFresh3x 1 point 3 years ago

There’s no real alternative to YouTube. An aggregator is not as novel or as complex as a video hosting service with millions of channels with huge productions and followings. This is also a lot bigger than a thumbs down button.

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ANuStart 13 points 3 years ago

Jesus fuck that place

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Spzi 11 points 3 years ago

Interesting to see the interplay between power and civil disobedience.

It was naive to expect reddirt to bow down (which is why many thought the protest was pointless), but still the right thing to continue the protests.

What it does is, it forces the power to show face, and it creates a dilemma. Do they

  1. let the protest continue? That's an option, if the protest can be ignored. If the protest is too much of an obstruction, this is not an option.
  2. give in to the demands? Clearly the worst option, else there wouldn't be any protest
  3. use force to remove the protest? A good option if enough people don't care, the best option if people even condone the use of force.

Maybe you already noticed, I'm talking about something else, something bigger.

(1) Is why regular demonstrations (in themselves) have little effect; they can be ignored. They must be a stepping stone to further escalation, else you get statements like "this one will pass as well". The people protesting must be committed and follow through.

(2) Must be won in battle. There will be no gifts. It has to be the least painful option for the authorities, and remember it was their most painful option at the beginning.

(3) Very much depends on solidarity. With which side does civil society solidarize itself? Does it favor the force-applying authorities, because they remove an annoying obstruction to business as usual? Are the protesters the good guys, because they are fighting for a just cause and a better future?

Neutrality on this stance indirectly supports the stronger part, usually the authorities (which are in a position to use force). Using force has no real downsides (oversimplified), unless society heavily condemns it. By 'condemning,' I mean supporting the protests, ideally through participation.

Maybe after experiencing this with your once-favorite social media provider, you can see the next climate protest / civil disobedience with different eyes.

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nonexcludable 11 points 3 years ago

r/TIHI is also unmoderated along with r/mildlyinteresting and r/interestingasfuck. Is that new?

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nonexcludable 5 points 3 years ago

Also r/self.

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Pilirin 10 points 3 years ago

so it's more than just r/mildlyinteresting. there's also r/TIHI and r/interestingasfuck and r/shittylifeprotips and r/illegallifeprotips and r/self

looks like the admins have decided to start their campaign in what they seem to believe is a war

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intelati 10 points 3 years ago

Okay. Reddit just killed itself.

Yikes

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Gsus4 1 point 3 years ago

The fact that they went as far as to do this, lie about the NSFW-related modpost and delete the evidence reeks of desperation. It's pathetic, really.

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Cavefishes 9 points 3 years ago

SCAB MODS GO HOME

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density 2 points 3 years ago

SCABBING CAN DAMAGE YOUR CAR

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Unsayableorc 9 points 3 years ago

Just checked on r/interestingasfuck, and it says the subreddit is unmoderated.

Glad I left, only reason I still have my account is I'm waiting on my reddit data request.

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Aguane 1 point 3 years ago

Wait. How do I request my data from Reddit?

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raz0rf0x 9 points 3 years ago

goes out to get more popcorn Yes.... Excellent.

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Thalyssa 6 points 3 years ago

🍿

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lixus98 2 points 3 years ago

Are those butter flavored?

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PelicanPersuader 2 points 3 years ago

Tastes like Spez's salty tears to be

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deviant1 2 points 3 years ago

Salted with reddit tears

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aeharding 1 point 3 years ago

Reddit is always crashing/not loading

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SpacePace 7 points 3 years ago

Probably expecting reddit to do the same to other subreddits that try this tactic. It's awful

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Pookie1804 7 points 3 years ago

We all knew this was a possibility.

The next move should be contacting all the mods of all the subreddits you love and get them the information on a migration. Set up a place for them to land and offer to have them mod here if they want to move everyone.

I have done that with my favorite subs already. Hopefully the mods respond and set up home here.

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minnieo 7 points 3 years ago

ive been trying but most the time they hadnt listened. i think they need more voices encouraging them, politely of course, we dont wanna look like dicks. something as simple as "Hey, i love this community but I no longer use reddit, will you guys be making a community on Kbin or other alternatives? Let me know please, thanks."

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EarlGrey07 6 points 3 years ago

How barbaric! But it's good that they are showing their true colours, it will help the remaining redditors make up their mind about leaving.

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NRVulture 6 points 3 years ago

This is both infuriating and devastating.

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TheMightyBlu 6 points 3 years ago

I can't say I'm surprised we've arrived at this point but still... If this is the precedent set then there's surely not much more that can be done. Thing that sort of sickens me is seeing just how many people are immediately lining up to take over as mods for these subs, but maybe I'm just naïve.

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explodingkitchen 5 points 3 years ago

We have no way of knowing how many of those accounts are real, and how many are puppets trying to make it look like mods can be easily replaced. And even if those signups are legit, imagine being a novice mod on a team of novice mods, with some highly valuable mod tools on the verge of disappearing. Between the inexperience at modding, the inexperience at interacting peaceably with other mods (which can sometimes be more of a challenge than dealing with regular users), and poor tools to handle the workload... it's gonna be a bumpy ride, to say the least. I'd expect a lot of turnover and a lot of stuff falling through the cracks.

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samus12345 1 point 3 years ago

And add to that that the overall userbase after the 3PAs die will likely be of, shall we say, lesser quality, requiring even more moderation to keep it from becoming a cesspool than is needed now.

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MentallyExhausted 2 points 3 years ago

All I see is “let me be mod so I can follow the will of the users and keep it NSFW.”

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hiyaaaaa23 6 points 3 years ago

This shit has gone way too far.

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faltuuser 5 points 3 years ago

It's time we move past reddit.

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TheFeatureCreature 1 point 3 years ago

This. Even if the protests were successful and Reddit reversed their choices on the API changes - we still need to migrate off Reddit. It is never a good thing to have so many people and so much information consolidated on one platform owned by an unreliable megacorp.

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slin 4 points 3 years ago

The entire r/MildlyInteresting mod has just been REINSTATED - again without any communication or explanation

https://reddit.com/...

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tal 3 points 3 years ago

GO DM MODS OF YOUR FAVORITE SUBREDDITS AND POLITELY ASK ABOUT MIGRATION!

Well, some of them appear to have been locked out of their accounts, so may have difficulty reading said messages...

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slicedcheesegremlin 3 points 3 years ago

Oh my God spez has resorted to outright deleting some of the colossal moneymaker subs, that will do more permanent damage than a user blackout ever could. This is quite possibly the funniest thing I've seen from that shitsite in years.

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tal 5 points 3 years ago

They just removed the mods. They'll presumably appoint someone else. Now, those appointed replacement mods may well dick up the sub and result in it losing popularity, but Reddit isn't deleting the sub directly.

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slicedcheesegremlin 1 point 3 years ago

Oh, I assumes by "nuked it" they meant he deleted the sub.

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density 1 point 3 years ago

appoint someone else

but whoooooo??

replacement mods may well dick up the sub

asked and answered.

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STUPIDVIPGUY 3 points 3 years ago

Wow this is starting to get really embarassing for steve.

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kratoz29 2 points 3 years ago

HEY, I DIDN'T GET A CHANCE TO VOTE!

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density 2 points 3 years ago

USE BCC, NOT TO OR IT WILL SHOW ALL THE COMPANIES EVERYONE YOU EMAILED.

lol zoomers

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quazar 2 points 3 years ago

I didn't think they'd do this. They are showing that they have all the tact of a bull in a china shop :(

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niktemadur 2 points 3 years ago

At a time like this, I am at least glad that I was never a mod there, and I don't have to go back there to try and deal directly with that toxic corporate business anti-culture.

If I had invested years of love's labor into a community, only for this to now occur, to realize I am being regarded as little more than trapped prey by a site I trusted, it would be tearing my guts in all possible directions.

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tal 2 points 3 years ago

You've heard of animals chewing off a leg to escape a trap? There's an animal kind of trick. A human would remain in the trap, endure the pain, feigning death that he might kill the trapper and remove a threat to his kind.

-- Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam, testing Paul Atreides with the Gom Jabbar, Dune

EDIT: Not actually advocating to try to take down Reddit, just that the quote was so darn apropos

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Noodleneedles 1 point 3 years ago

Hilariously, a subreddit that I mod, with less than 700 subscribers and like, 4 slightly active users (3 of whom are mods), just got the threatening modmail. We only went private as a gesture of solidarity, there's maybe one post a week so it's not exactly a bustling community. I'd made the sub public for about an hour every couple of days in an effort to avoid this sort of thing, guess it didn't work.

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JackbyDev 1 point 3 years ago

So what is it, do the mods get to control the subs they made or not? Reddit are such clowns right now.

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ImFresh3x 1 point 3 years ago

Ya. Mods need to just give up and line out the alternatives. Links to guide and 3rd party apps. Done.

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imakepancakes 1 point 3 years ago

We should just request to mod and make them private again, rinse and repeat

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olavf 0 points 3 years ago

@minnieo color me not at all surprised. Likewise I expect AI mods and all the fresh hell that brings soon too

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minnieo 3 points 3 years ago

theyre actually letting anyone request to be a mod of the subs they screw over

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lwgrs -3 points 3 years ago

GO DM MODS OF YOUR FAVORITE SUBREDDITS AND POLITELY ASK ABOUT MIGRATION!

Please don't do this. I'm a moderator of a sub (won't say which one). From a personal standpoint I'm happy to use both platforms. Vilify me if you will. But I do not want to see messages from users asking if we're going to migrate. That's pestering and it won't go well if that particular subreddit isn't into it.

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minnieo 8 points 3 years ago

How else do you suggest bringing migration to their attention? I am a mod as well, I cannot see how someone politely asking if we are thinking about making a community on a diff platform can be perceived as pestering? It appears this is individual and not every mod will be annoyed and not every mod wont be annoyed.

edit: 10 people suggesting it to mods says "this is in higher demand than we thought, not just one random person's suggestion that we can ignore, we need to consider taking action or addressing this" Which is how changes happen. mods need to listen to their users, thats the responsibility they volunteered to take on. As a commenter said below me: "If you are getting annoyed because so many of your users want to migrate, maybe you should consider migrating instead of demonizing your users?"

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lwgrs 0 points 3 years ago

If moderators/subreddits are going to migrate, they're already going to be aware about it and probably thinking about it.

I am a mod as well, I cannot see how someone politely asking if we are thinking about making a community on a diff platform can be perceived as pestering?

Think about it from this side: users can't see what messages the mods are getting. You're asking people to DM moderators - politely doesn't matter. What if 10 people see your message and act on it? Then you've got 10 people saying "Are you guys gonna migrate? Are you migrating? What do you think about migrating?"

It appears this is individual and not every mod will be annoyed and not every mod wont be annoyed.

Very true, but I really don't think unsolicited messages to subreddits asking them to migrate - for YOUR benefit - is a good idea. In any case, forget about migrating. Just create the communities you want to see here, on lemmy/kbin/wherever. You don't need to wait for moderators to do it.

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minnieo 1 point 3 years ago

I didn't wait personally, I went ahead and made @SilentHill, then I dmed the r/SilentHill mods politely letting them know about it and also offering them mod positions there, and I got a nice response and takers, now so far I have one of their mods modding my mag here. It can work.

By all means, don't wait, the reason why I suggest DMing them is because thats how you get the most people to migrate, they have the most influence and a base of members already. I am still protesting, even if out of spite at this point since Reddit probably won't back down, so I want the max amount of people we can get to leave their shitty platform to migrate.

IMO 10 people suggesting it says "this is in higher demand than we thought, not just one random person's suggestion that we can ignore" Which is how changes happen.

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Daydreamy 1 point 3 years ago

You're a mod. Post a sticky addressing it or use a third party tool to handle these things.

You have every right to keep your community on whatever platform but don't shame people because they are mobilizing others and it causes you inconvenience. The issue isn't the users, nor the people messaging you, if you want to be mad at someone it is Reddit that is causing you grief.

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fckgwrhqq2yxrkt 1 point 3 years ago

If you are getting annoyed because so many of your users want to migrate, maybe you should consider migrating instead of demonizing your users?

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