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Reddit Threatens to Remove Moderators From Subreddits Continuing Apollo-Related Blackouts (www.macrumors.com)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by bird@beehaw.org to c/technology@beehaw.org

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As some subreddits continue blackouts to protest Reddit's plans to charge high prices for its API, Reddit has informed the moderators of those subreddits that it has plans to replace resistant moderation teams to keep spaces "open and accessible to users."

Edit, there seems to be conflicting reporting on this issue:

While the company does “respect the community’s right to protest” and pledges that it won’t force communities to reopen, Reddit also suggests there’s no need for that.

Source: https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/15/23762501/reddit-ceo-steve-huffman-interview-protests-blackout

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[–] petrescatraian@libranet.de 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@bird Expected. They own the website, they do what they want.

[–] utzer@social.yl.ms 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

@petrescatraian @bird and now they seem to want to Elonise it.

[–] utzer@social.yl.ms 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@petrescatraian @bird someone said lately "management the gull way", suddenly show up, screem around and shit on everything, which seems to be the Elon way of management as well.. so reddit get's in line too?

[–] petrescatraian@libranet.de 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@utzer oh gosh! 🤦

Really good analogy tho.

@bird

[–] petrescatraian@libranet.de 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Btw, I am really amazed that there was a way for the users to express their disagreement with spez's decision. I honestly did not expect that. If that happened on Facebook or Twitter, the reaction would've surely been less spectacular.

[–] Kerb@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago

Unlike Twitter or Facebook,
Reddit put most of its moderation into the hands of community members.

So redditors have more ways to make trouble.

I guess spez gets what he didn't pay for.

[–] petrescatraian@libranet.de 2 points 1 year ago

@utzer Exactly, wow. It's worrying how fast they want it to bust. In my country, I think it is the most popular social media platform not owned by Meta. And the Subreddits seemed okay. Now this happens.

@bird