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What the hell lmao, literally 2 posts down on my feed is the Verge article from today which states:

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; more than 80 percent of the top 5,000 communities by daily active users are now open

?????

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

I knew this is what they would do. :) OpenAI hired Kenyans at 2$/hr to train their AI chatbot. This is what Reddit will do. Hire Africans at 2$/hr to moderate the most popular sub and generate traffic, than try and recruit new volunteer mods, all the while going for the IPO.

allow ordinary users to vote moderators out more easily if their decisions aren’t popular. He said the new system would be more democratic and allow a wider set of people to hold moderators accountable.

blinks loudly What could go wrong? 🤣

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

I mean, yes, ofc they are going to eventually do this. The team at Reddit isn't going to just let their popular subreddits shutdown indefinitely. They just kick the mods out, moderate themselves or bring some other scabs in to do it.

I think it's the very problem of Reddit. Too much power at the top in a centralized way and too much power to mods of large subreddits with....more subscribers than countries have population.

I think the fediverse is just more the answer top to bottom for more community control.

Well, removing the abusive, ban-prone mods of /r/FIrefox wouldn''t be a bad idea.

Well, you could stay private and continue to moderate as if it would always be a private sub, just have a few authorized users and a few posts a day to moderate...

Goodbye Reddit.

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.

What we need to do is work with Reddit mods on niche / civil subs to encourage their user base to move here before reddit starts using scabs / censoring content

Why can't "the community" just make another subreddit and then pick it up from there? Oh right, because they want to sell our data.

Guess it's time to back up certain subreddits off of Reddit and then perhaps... delete them entirely? If it isn't hosted on Reddit anymore, Reddit can't do anything about it.

This would be a job for some data hoarders, though.

With WHO? Who's gonna take over that wasn't already part of the mod teams?

@bird Expected. They own the website, they do what they want.

the fuckening just doesnt stop. u/Spez lost complete touch with the platform itself.

But hey, they own the joint. they can make their own decisions.