Comment on Reddit is making sitewide protests basically impossible

IvanOverdrive@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  That’s when I knew we lost. When power hungry moderators felt threatened and, instead of standing in solidarity with its users, caved to corporate demands.

  “But we’ll be able to still protest. Every Tuesday.”

  Hell are those protests still going on? I highly doubt it.

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  • creamy@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Moment that “protest” started I knew it would last like a month tops.

    Most people don’t even care about third party apps.

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• NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  People tried that.

  reddit corporate will remove those mods and ask which other mods want to be super duper awesome and be able to say they moderate another N thousand users per day for zero pay. And people leap at that.

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  • mp3@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    At least you’re not the sucker doing it for free for the shareholders anymore.

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    • NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I mean… everyone contributing all those super useful posts that everyone thinks are the only authoritative sources of information on the internet are doing exactly that.

      Every time you provide some tech support or a bit of advice? You are providing reddit shareholders’ money.

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  • bishbosh@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Scabbing for reddit mod clout is utterly wild.

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• lorty@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Many subs did that, so reddit substituted the mods for others that do as they are told.

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  • vithigar@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    The dndmemes protests were a pretty incredible thing while they lasted. The mods changed the subreddit to “nsfw” because that disabled most of the monetization. Then Reddit admins told them the subreddit obviously wasn’t really nsfw and to change it to accurately reflect the subreddit content.

    …so the mods changed the subreddit rules to allow actual nsfw content and people went nuts. In multiple senses of the term.

    Of course “accurately reflecting the subreddit” wasn’t what Reddit really cared about. They wanted to preserve the advertising stream for a popular subreddit, and this did the opposite of that. Reddit admins soon after basically said “remove nsfw content, restore the subreddit to what it used to be, do what we say or we’ll replace you with a mod team of our own choosing”.

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    • blindbunny@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Thanks for sharing this I guess I left before I seen all of this happening and I haven’t heard any of it.

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• socsa@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  The problem is that this opens the door to far right bootlickers who a salivating at the idea of turning reddit into an even farther right shithole.

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  • Dead_or_Alive@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    lol no if anything they’ve become far left shitholes.

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• ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Reddit would close the sub for being unmoderated until someone asks to be the new mod

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  • schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    mission accomplished? That has the same effect as making it private, doesn’t it?

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    • ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Well, the power hungry mod that lost their power wouldn’t be very happy with it and larger communities wouldn’t stay closed very long

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• ntma@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Reddit mods are such cucks for power that they cave when it’s threatened to be removed

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• johannesvanderwhales@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  A lot of subreddits have done that. The problem is nobody notices…

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• realitista@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  That’s what I did with all mine.

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