It was well known and understood that Reddit would do this, going as far as to replace entire mod teams, even before the blackout started. The hope was that investors would put pressure on Reddit to agree to mods and 3rd party devs requests. But not enough support materialized, and that left the mods between a rock and a hard place.
I don’t fault the mods for making the decisions they did. If the sub is going to reopen anyways and the mod can do nothing about it, better to at least have a mod stay on who cared enough to try to do the right thing once upon a time.
At this point I’d say the onus is now on us, the regular users. Let us move our content away from Reddit - without that, with the content on a replacement - Reddit will have a much harder time recovering.
It’s good to know that even though the mods have bowed out for the time being, that they still intend to keep up the fight in other ways. The mods feel the need to take care of the users who have chosen to stay - but if all the users move to kbin/etc then the mods will have an easier time justifying their own move as well.
I said this on an earlier post, https://kbin.social/m/tech/t/36364/Here-s-the-note-Reddit-sent-to-moderators-threatening-them-if#entry-comment-156575
It was well known and understood that Reddit would do this, going as far as to replace entire mod teams, even before the blackout started. The hope was that investors would put pressure on Reddit to agree to mods and 3rd party devs requests. But not enough support materialized, and that left the mods between a rock and a hard place.
I don’t fault the mods for making the decisions they did. If the sub is going to reopen anyways and the mod can do nothing about it, better to at least have a mod stay on who cared enough to try to do the right thing once upon a time.
At this point I’d say the onus is now on us, the regular users. Let us move our content away from Reddit - without that, with the content on a replacement - Reddit will have a much harder time recovering.
It’s good to know that even though the mods have bowed out for the time being, that they still intend to keep up the fight in other ways. The mods feel the need to take care of the users who have chosen to stay - but if all the users move to kbin/etc then the mods will have an easier time justifying their own move as well.