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Yaztromo@lemmy.world 8 months agoThey kicked myself and my entire mod team from r/Canning because we held a vote and our users asked us to shut the community down in protest of their 3rd party app policies.
Then recently they emailed and messaged me telling me I could get in on the ground floor of buying shares.
That’s going to be a big resounding “no” from me there u/spez.
They emailed me too. Guess I was a power user, because I wasn’t a mod!
I ignored it. It’s especially egregious because I’m Canadian, and I think it’s for Americans only.
Since they killed third-party apps, I think I’ve gotten more emails from them than the number of times I’ve signed in. Haven’t even posted a single comment since RIF died.
Canadian here as well, and no — we can’t participate. Not that it hasn’t stopped them from contacting me several times anyway.
Unfortunately, even if this IPO crashes and burns the real villains in this story are going to make it out with millions in their pockets.
RIP RIF
Ha they sent me the same message, and while I was not booted as a. I’d, I led the protest effort in a few subs that I modded in and helped out over in Save3rdPartyApps. I didn’t delete my account, just went silent after resigning when other mods got cold feet as soon as it started to get real.
Yeah, you may have seen some of my posts from the time on r/Save3rdPartyApps and/or r/ModCoord. I was one of the few pretty vocal that we had to hold the line, and that a simple two week blackout wasn’t going to be effective. I knew they’d either be forced to capitulate or kick me out as the head moderator or r/Canning — and wasn’t surprised after most of the other mods chickened out that they did just that.
I wasn’t about to chicken out — the worst they could do is remove from me the privilege of working for them for free. My entire personality and self-worth wasn’t tied to being a Reddit moderator.
I got the offer too even though I left in June. 2 million karma, 11 year user. F SPEZ.
I also left in June, and also got the offer. My karma was in the low 6 figures and I had been on for like 5 or 6 years. Honestly, a low bar
I’m still technically a moderator elsewhere, but I haven’t been active since June (no posts, no moderation, no messages). It’s an artifact of being one of the approved contributors on r/AskScience — they delegate a controlled set of moderator powers to anyone in their Panel Plus programme.
Any canning related communities you can recommend now that you are over here?
My experience modding r/Canning burnt me out on online canning forums. There is a ton of unsafe information out there, and so I just got out of online canning discussions altogether.
There was a Lemmy instance out there that was intended to revolve around self sufficiency that offered me moderation rights to their canning forum, but that instance didn’t really take off, nobody ever posted to their canning community, and the instance went offline several months ago.
I still can — but I don’t participate in any online canning communities, so I’m not sure what’s trustworthy out there right now.
Gork@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Are you saying that they… canned you?
Sorry I couldn’t resist.
Yaztromo@lemmy.world 8 months ago
You’re not the first to have noted that — but it remains funny, so we’re good 🤣.