As some subreddits continue blackouts to protest Reddit's plans to charge high prices for its API, Reddit has informed the moderators of those...

As some subreddits continue blackouts to protest Reddit’s plans to charge high prices for its API, Reddit has informed the moderators of those subreddits that it has plans to replace resistant moderation teams to keep spaces “open and accessible to users.”

Edit, there seems to be conflicting reporting on this issue:

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.

Source: https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/15/23762501/reddit-ceo-steve-huffman-interview-protests-blackout

  • rknuu@beehaw.orgEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Hey everyone we’re trying to keep the reddit threads centralized in technology in beehaw. I’m not locking this one because there’s a lot of discussion, but consider moving the chat over to https://beehaw.org/post/576904

    • bouncing@partizle.comEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      I’m tempted to say it’s better, but, unfortunately, in many ways it’s not.

      What Reddit had, most of the time, was semi-canonical communities. There was /r/python, /r/linux, /r/privacy, etc. The diaspora of Lemmy is a shadow of all of that. Surely, there are a dozen or so (at least) /c/python communities on Lemmy, but is there a single one that’s anywhere near as active as the Reddit one? No. Not so far, at least.

      And unfortunately, I can say as an instance admin, the lemmy moderation tools are just flat bad. We had to turn off open registration and enable email verification, not because we would otherwise need it, but the Lemmy moderation tools are 100% reactive and only operate on a 1-by-1 basis. If a spambot signs up 100 fake accounts, I have to go and individually ban each and every one of them. There’s no shift+select, ban.

      Don’t get me wrong. I’m glad to be here, and Lemmy’s great, and there’s far less toxicity (so far). All I’m saying is, (1) there’s work to do, (2) don’t gloat.

  • GadgeteerZA@beehaw.orgEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    Yes, I got the “message” from the Reddit CEO, and decided to pre-empt that, and I spent a few hours today manually deleting each and every post I made in my subreddit. The content is already anyway on my blog, on The Internet Archive, and on the Fediverse. So my subreddit now looks like this (he is welcome to let someone else take it now):

  • Plume (She/Her)@beehaw.orgEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    …and the subreddit rebellion has been foiled. The remaining locked subreddits will be hunted down and defeated!

    The attempt on my credibility by the Apollo dev has left me scarred, and deformed. But I assure you: My resolve… has never been stronger!

    In order to ensure the profitability and continuing advertising…

    REDDIT, WILL BE REORGINIZED…

    INTO THE FIRST…

    GALACTIC ADVERTISING PLATFORM!

    FOR A SAFE, AND PROFITABLE WEBSITE.

    — u/spez to potential investors. Maybe. Probably. Might be slightly paraphrased.

  • Thief@lemmy.oneEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    Everyone needs to realise it doesnt matter. Enough people already came to lemmy for us to carry on without reddit. Now we just do the normal long haul work - help users who need help so people start searching lemmy for tech solutions, post our normal content here so there is a reason to stay, upvote and comment others work so there is engagement. The rest will follow as this grows and grows. We have already won. Lemmy is no longer a fringe interest.

  • Kittywifclaws@lemmy.oneEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    The least they could do is make it less obvious who they will replace the mods with. I expect this kind of blatant takeover attitude from a place with less legal department. Like twitter.

  • brie@beehaw.orgEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    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.

  • Saturdaycat@kbin.social
    2·
    1 year ago

    Hahaha you know before this many people didn’t think of reddit as corporate corporate. They scewed themselves and ruined their goodwill

    • livus@kbin.social
      2·
      1 year ago

      I have to admit, it has changed the way I think of reddit, both as an entity and as a source of information.

  • /JJ@feddit.ukEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    the idea that a cabal of mods were going to take things in a good direction was always unsound

    • Toribor@corndog.ukEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Notoriously mature and level headed mods that spend all day on the internet putting an excessive amount of emotional energy into something most people barely care about… Who could have predicted this?

  • Arystique@beehaw.orgEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    I swear Reddit is not only not learning from history but purposely trying to repeat it again thinking oh the previous guys were just too weak…

  • entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Good luck with that! I’m excited to see the fireworks as their brand-new mod teams use their brand-new mod tools right as they go public. Should be quite a show.

    • fouc@lemm.eeEnglish
      0·
      1 year ago

      There are enough power hungry people ready to jump in the first opportunity they get to moderate

  • firecat@kbin.social
    1·
    1 year ago

    They already removed some mods, it’s not a threat it’s Spaz being a jerk and awful person.

  • SharkEatingBreakfast@beehaw.orgEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    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.

  • Bipta@kbin.social
    1·
    1 year ago

    When r/WorkReform sprang up overnight and proposed to elect moderators, Reddit’s admins threatened to ban the subreddit for that

    Fuck Spez. Fuck Reddit. Build kbin.

    • Dee@beehaw.org
      1·
      1 year ago

      Build Kbin Fediverse.

      I like Lemmy more than Kbin, personally, but we can federate together and build up the fediverse 😄

        • Dee@beehaw.org
          0·
          1 year ago

          I’m the opposite haha, I think Kbin has some cool communities and stuff but I way prefer the look of Lemmy. To each their own! Beauty of the fediverse is that we can choose our own platform but still interact 😄

            • Dee@beehaw.org
              1·
              1 year ago

              Idk maybe, I implied I don’t use Kbin with that comment from 25 days ago. Not sure why you’d ask me tbh.