interestingasfuck has been unmoderated and closed for weeks now. Other subs are going to get the same treatment, and going dark is worse than going NSFW. The most effective form of protest any sub can engage in at this point is forcing Reddit to fire and fail to replace them.
I guess people just don’t want to moderate anymore.
Y’know, if they had walked everything back - or even just reduced API costs - right away, no one would have left. Now their top content creators have left, and nothing they do will repair the damage.
An even better strategy for Reddit would have been to prevent Spez from making public statements about it. If the protestations had been ignored it would have blown over quickly.
If they had just shut the fuck up and not said anything, they could have plodded forward with all their changes and the protests would have fallen apart anyway. Without any reactions, or any sign we were doing anything, the protestors would have turned on each other for lack of an obvious external enemy.
But little piss baby Spez took it way too personally for that.
This is what all mods should do. Their thanks for running a community unpaid for years on end is a middle finger for not letting reddit profit off of them. Users build, foster, and maintain subreddits and reddit swoops in and declares that it’s all thanks to them. Mods who get demodded should wear that fact with pride when contrasted against the ones who capitulated with similar threats.
Unfortunately…
Reddit demands moderators remove NSFW labels, or else / Anyone who opposes Reddit’s “final warning” will have their mod powers removed.
https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/6/23786474/reddit-nsfw-moderator-protest-final-warning
Let 'em.
interestingasfuck has been unmoderated and closed for weeks now. Other subs are going to get the same treatment, and going dark is worse than going NSFW. The most effective form of protest any sub can engage in at this point is forcing Reddit to fire and fail to replace them.
I guess people just don’t want to moderate anymore.
The ultimate “nobody wants to work”
Except it was for free and everyone took the piss out of you for doing it.
Y’know, if they had walked everything back - or even just reduced API costs - right away, no one would have left. Now their top content creators have left, and nothing they do will repair the damage.
I’m all in on this fediverse thing to the point I’m (looking at) self hosting as many alternatives as I can.
The big boys forgot the number one rule of the internet … don’t mention 4chan … The internet sees censorship as damage and routes around it
I’m spending as much time here as I did on Reddit. I’d like to see a bigger python community and military spouse community, but that’ll come I’m sure.
They brought gasoline to a house fire, and now are wondering what happened.
An even better strategy for Reddit would have been to prevent Spez from making public statements about it. If the protestations had been ignored it would have blown over quickly.
If they had just shut the fuck up and not said anything, they could have plodded forward with all their changes and the protests would have fallen apart anyway. Without any reactions, or any sign we were doing anything, the protestors would have turned on each other for lack of an obvious external enemy.
But little piss baby Spez took it way too personally for that.
This is what all mods should do. Their thanks for running a community unpaid for years on end is a middle finger for not letting reddit profit off of them. Users build, foster, and maintain subreddits and reddit swoops in and declares that it’s all thanks to them. Mods who get demodded should wear that fact with pride when contrasted against the ones who capitulated with similar threats.
I haven’t been demodded yet but I’m sure it’s coming. I linked directly to the new Lemmy community in a sticky post.
Sorry for asking but I haven’t seen it. In which subreddit is the sticky?
I wonder if Reddit realizes that subreddits are going NSFW because they don’t have the tools to combat NSFW content.
This isn’t a threat by moderators, this is self preservation. They literally have no where else to go.
They take away the NSFW tags, then they will be blamed for any NSFW content that gets public attention.
So it’s a lose/lose situation.