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If you put people in charge who don't know / care about particular communities in charge, there could be huge trouble.
You know.... like the legal advice subr×ddit being moderated by cops. Which it is.
I feel like normie fed-based socials need to start going live like bluesky so people can finally get off these shitty platforms. We need a leader in the federation space.
Was rather foreseeable but seals the deal for me. I will will waste my time here.
Spez “this isn’t impacting our bottom line” surely is acting like it is. Let the fire begin. Turn off all mod tools, all spam filters. Let the website turn into a shithole.
the idea that a cabal of mods were going to take things in a good direction was always unsound
"we will not force communities to reopen"
But
"we will invite new, active moderators to keep these spaces open and accessible to users"
Union busting 101 - claiming the organizers are lazy and trying to skirt work and fire them asap
/r/ModCoord is polling subs, a lot of support still for indefinite blackout
As of now, more than 80% of our top 5,000 communities (by DAU) are open
I'm a bit paranoid that this could be a technical truth because the communities still closed have dropped in DAU.
Edit: Checked the blackout tracker, of the ones listed 205 are still closed or restricted, so it's probably an accurate claim, though it seems about half of the participating subreddits are still closed.
They already removed some mods, it's not a threat it's Spaz being a jerk and awful person.
allow ordinary users to vote moderators out more easily if their decisions aren’t popular. He said the new system would be more democratic and allow a wider set of people to hold moderators accountable.
blinks loudly What could go wrong? 🤣
I knew this is what they would do. :) OpenAI hired Kenyans at 2$/hr to train their AI chatbot. This is what Reddit will do. Hire Africans at 2$/hr to moderate the most popular sub and generate traffic, than try and recruit new volunteer mods, all the while going for the IPO.
Hahaha you know before this many people didn't think of reddit as corporate corporate. They scewed themselves and ruined their goodwill