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Guess it's time to back up certain subreddits off of Reddit and then perhaps... delete them entirely? If it isn't hosted on Reddit anymore, Reddit can't do anything about it.
This would be a job for some data hoarders, though.
Well, removing the abusive, ban-prone mods of /r/Firefox wouldn't be a bad idea.
Didn't they already do that on /r/tumblr? Why threaten what you already did?
What the hell lmao, literally 2 posts down on my feed is the Verge article from today which states:
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; more than 80 percent of the top 5,000 communities by daily active users are now open
?????
https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/15/23762501/reddit-ceo-steve-huffman-interview-protests-blackout
But what percentage of the top 100 communities? I don't actually know that answer, but top 5000 doesn't really tell me anything about the quality of the subs that are open right now.
80% of the top 5000 communities tells me that 1000 communities remain closed. That's a lot.
/r/StarTrek is one of them.
It's not forcing a sub to open.
It's removing mods that are squatting on a sub or vandalising a sub, as per described in the mod guidelines.
Whether the new mods that Reddit instates open the sub or not is up to the new mods.
They can say the first and do the second. The mods they instate will open the sub.
I would think (hope) that any of the good, decent moderators have already begun the migration over and the replacements are just going to be awful. Many moderators of the big subs have been doing it for some time. Thats a lot of brain drain. I wouldn't want to invest in a company that wants those in supervisory roles to be bodies rather than quality contributors.