Notice that they circumvented democratic decision-making between moderation teams to force subreddits open. 1/10 mods wants it open = open. Why would they not do the same here with users, whom they respect even less?

I suspect they will do one or more of the following:

• selectively honor results based on when the users of subreddits opt to open them.
• never open voting in subreddits where mods choose to open the subreddit
• set voting window to align more closely with timezones with demographics that will favor opening.
• use their powers from hosting the platform to fuck with results (i.e. voting only working from new reddit or official app, shadowbans, fucking with login/voting of anyone who has posted the word "lemmy", etc.)
• All of the above.

This should be a lesson on how corporations embrace democracy within a system that they ultimately control to let people believe they have some form of self-determination.

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How about letting redditors vote out CEOs?

The biggest middle-finger to him would be if really all "restive" subreddits agree on re-electing their respective mods.

Oh Steve, you just loves to digg Reddit's grave.

Final tally is in. 11,000 of the 10,000 subscribers have voted to remove the mod effective immediately.

I feel like having people vote on moderators would be an improvement but how can you complain about the lack of democracy when you are literally Reddit.

As a mod, the users demanded we blackout. Some tech groups didn't want to and the users argued them into it.

For a guy who claims the blackout isn't affecting reddit, he sure is worried about getting the blackout done and over with.

He's saying the same talking points at every interview and handling this situation like Chris Licht did before he got fired at CNN, had some ideas for change that people weren't necessarily against but shove it down their throats with out any finesse or flexibility or fairness and everyone is unhappy and it exposed the true motive. Licht \ CNN was being forced to the right by the owner and billionaire investors, and Reddit is just plain forcing out 3rd party apps (that helped build reddit in the first place, and have been open to paying a reasonable amount for api access) to try and boost revenue. My favorite take on all this is from Arstechnica:

But Reddit's biggest asset is its community. Charging for its API may be a necessary evil to survive an uncertain future, but Reddit's attitude against its own community isn't. Reddit is burning bridges on its quest for cash without showing an ounce of sympathy.

All lies, they‘ve straight up been removing mods like they want to cleanse them from the website and forcibly reopen their subs, NO voting on it! It‘s "reopen of gtfo", that‘s the message they are sending.

This moral appeal to democracy is transparent and laughable, they must think Redditors are completely brainless to swallow that turd, and maybe he is right seeing those who cheer for this.

The way this is unfolding is like watching a train wreck in slow motion.

This will be difficult to accomplish on a notoriously botted platform.

Well, lemmy already taking Reddit Traffic, so why bother again... just let it rot!

In China people call it

LET IT ROT

[soapbox]Guys, remember: spez is just the sacrificial goat*. They'll let him take the unpopular decisions, then "fire" him, then plenty users will go like "WE DID IT REDDIT! WE SAVED REDDIT! SPEZ IS GONE". It was just like this with Ellen Pao.

The whole company is scum and not even firing spez should be considered enough.[/soapbox]

*I apologise to any caprine being who might be offended by the comparison.