It's just going to be horrible decision followed by horrible decision for Reddit from now on, huh? They'll grind their platform into the ground and squeeze the remaining users for all they're worth. If people start getting paid for content on Reddit, it's going to become far more of a shithole than it is already. Just wild shit.
After the response to the question about Christian in his awful AMA, I don't think that's even a theory. That's just the truth.
Fill it with BEANS
I hope they don't bend to them. Reddit fully deserves this level of overt trolling at this point.
Good lord, this interview just solidified my decision to never return to Reddit. It seems Spez doesn't want me there anyway, despite how much time and money I've given them.
I also wish the interviewer had brought up Spez lying and mischaracterizing Christian so blatantly. Just pathetic behavior.
They just opened up after the two days were over, like how many of them planned. Not every sub agreed to stay dark indefinitely.
The thing with this is that it will take a HUGE amount of money to do this, unless you're suggesting they'll replace them with new unpaid moderators that are pro-being abused for free labor.
If that's the case, the quality of those subreddits will tank fast because there's no way they'll replace the existing mods with ones as motivated or as experienced as the ones already there.
As much as people love to mock Subreddit Moderators, there's a definite learned skill to doing it well and keeping a community thriving. That's not going to be something easily replaced.
I don't see much proof there outside of some "this definitely happened" type thing. Not that I don't believe them but that's not the strongest proof.
I've looked maybe a handful of times over the past couple weeks, mostly to look at /r/modcoord and /r/save3rdpartyapps. Even then, I used libreddit. Other than that, I've not visited for really any other reason.
Lemmy + Mastodon is doing a good enough job being my daily time waster. There's definitely less content here but I am but one man, it's not like I could go through all of Reddit's bot-generated daily content anyway.