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[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It isn't surprising at all, it's about hard money not about communities and fuzzy warm feelings. It seems everyone is working hard down at Reddit to make as much money as they can out of an IPO for a zombified carcass.

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Unfortunately, Reddit can just keep doing that as often as they want. Fortunately though, there are few people who will actually be able to do a good job moderating especially for FREE. They will burn through the good candidates and have to rely on unqualified people to do a mediocre job. This will ruin the content quality and eventually kill the sub. So long term we may still win, but short term we will likely see little change. The problem is always the level of involvement of the general public.

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago (11 children)

Well good for them, they can have a lot of fun paying reddit staff to be the mods now.

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Wait...the comment seems to indicate that the primary mod did not want to go dark, and an inactive mod came in and made it go dark. I understand being upset...but this does not seem like anything a Reddit admin would do?

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yep. The idea that Reddit Admin did this to nullify the blackout was suspect from the start. Why would it only be on r/AdviceAnimals? Lol

People are mad at Reddit right now and we're looking for any reason to confirm their bias and run away with their narrative.

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It was a matter of time before the admins started doing this. Fuck Spez, you piece of shit

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The way things are going R*ddit is going to become what Digg is today - a minimalist editor run link agreggator

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Keep the blackout going. Even if they boot mods and reopen subs, don’t visit. I wonder how much traffic/revenue they have lost so far.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago

Not going back. Disgusting behaviour.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lemmy should make itself as much like Reddit as it possibly can except for the small handful of money-grubbing cunts who'd rather destroy communities than allow them to exist without profiting from them.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Have fun paying for moderation or have Spam running rampant. That won't get you out of the red numbers, spez. Just fuel for the fire.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (3 children)

So we can expect the mods of bigger subreddits to also lose their permissions? How will the admins manage to moderate 8k subs?

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Welp, I'm officially never going back to reddit, might as well start deleting my account now...

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago

Gee, what a surprise that everyone called last week. Of course Reddit admins are booting uncooperative mods in favor of those that will un-private their subs, they have zero reason to be loyal to mods protesting against them. And they're actively losing advertising revenue for each sub that's dark.

The real way to protest this is to delete your Reddit account and never look back. Monthly active users is the only statistic that will force them to backtrack on any of the API pricing changes, and loads of people that have moved to Lemmy are actively using both platforms.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago

This is informative and unfortunate.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Does that mean they're unmoderated now? r/worldpolotics here we come!

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (7 children)
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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That's why we desperately need downvoting, making fake stories sink to the bottom.

my 2 'cents

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (4 children)

this is how reddit dies. not with a whimper, but with a greedy CEO.

get fucked spez!

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Mods should just reopen but refuse to moderate. Disable automod as well.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Duuuuuude they didn't wait long did they? And they attack r/adviceanimals, one of the core subs, even though it isn't one of the defaults anymore.

At this point I wouldn't be surprised if Steve Huffman brings back r/jailbait. The fucking dirty paedo.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago

Fuck u/spez

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