We don’t even need a cause. We would literally bring this down for a meme.

If only that was still true. Internet users used to be a niche counter-culture. Now they're just normal people.

Imagine having that much money and refusing to pay attention.

I doubt he really cares. this whole thing looks like "maintain a minimum viable product" until IPO.

he just wants to get paid, I cannot imagine he will care if reddit burns to the ground after the check clears.

Have they not threatened the communities with scabs as well? Like "if you don't mod this, we will find someone who will". The whole thing just seems super toxic and I really feel for the mods who genuinely cared and cultivated their subreddits. A lot of time and effort to be put into something for it to be thrown in their face for the sake of money.

Yes, the mods who spent years building a community, who gave up their free time, and care about what they do don't have any self respect. /s

I really don't understand this attitude or why people call remaining mods power hungry as if the admins aren't doing anything wrong.

I turned all the communities I modded private and "basically" quit but I understand not completely quitting without thinking about it for a long time. I only modded for like 30K redditors but some of the communitites have millions and they got there with the unseen moderation. Mods love their communities and it's really hard to just turn your back on them after you've cultivated real friendships and so much information has been shared. I think it's a little more complicated than, "F reddit, I'm out". They'll get there though, it's just become sooo much harder to actually mod the community you started.

“We’re not going to change it back, because this is a sexually explicit game, and also fuck them.”

Lmfao I live for this quote.

Awesome to the max

Lol poor guys are not even getting paid. I would happily donate if they move to Lemmy and start an instance.

Yeah. I mean why would someone? This place is growing leaps and bounds.

I care. Charging for high API use wasn't an unreasonable move in principle, just, the details were bullshit and it got rolled out in a totally donkey brained way. But that wasn't necessarily a deal breaker for me in and of itself. I stopped using reddit because of the temper tantrum & threats that the admins threw at mods and their coordination efforts.

And anyway it's death by a thousand cuts. Over time, all these little changes to the platform slowly make it worse for the user. The big social media companies have completely lost touch. They're more concerned with these abstract concepts like engagement and growth, instead of focusing on nurturing a good place for users to be. Well, what do they think? That the users are hostage? That we can't leave?

Reddit's entire business model is based on convincing people to do 99% of the community management work for free by telling mods they can run their communities however they want. Then the moment those mods (who, again, are doing valuable work for zero pay) try to actually run their community however they want Reddit says "no, not like that".

"Also ignore that fact that it's been two weeks and we still can't find unpaid volunteers for /r/interestingasfuck "

Moderators remaining are already showing signs of exasperation. I was mass wiping all my account comments and received a week suspension for 'inciting hate' by an admin for a comment that moderators ignored (it was a comment in a post about an article quoting Putin "claiming the West wanted Russians to all kill each other"). The comment was 10 days old, but apparently editing to replace the original statement with "deleting - because Spez" triggered the admins.

Good on you.

It was quite depressing seeing how many sub reddits ended their protests as soon as the mods were threatened with being removed from their unpaid positions.

The power and control really does go to some people's heads.