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

  • Thief@lemmy.one
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    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.

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        I feel like another critical change happened, and that is that Reddit’s users views of themselves changed. The idea that we are giving Reddit free content and labor so they can profit from it is spreading around.

        An ugly underlayer has been laid bare and many are finding they don’t really like it.

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      help users who need help so people start searching lemmy for tech solutions

      For a moment, I misread this as “tech positions” and got excited about a job board on here.

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        Community idea: we develop a fake company that we all “work” at so that we can vouch for each other and use our “experience” on our resumes.

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      Lemmy is a “ground floor” for the next random tidbits of knowledge aggregator. And I don’t mean that as Lemmy is new, but rather it’d the next port-of-call and mature enough to be engaging while not being entrenched in decades’ old procedures.

      I’m excited. I logged off Reddit when Christian shuttered Apollo, signed up on Beehaw and never looked back.

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    Its probably going to end up like facebook.
    A big lumbering thing, still heavily populated but ad choked and overrun by bots and bad actors, indoctrinating unsuspecting users. Even if it stays big, hopefully its reputation will suffer enough to keep most new users away.

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      I would argue that the default subs already suffer from a lot of those problems. What’s kept me around in Reddit is definitely the more specialist subs.

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      Getting into fediverse platforms has been a godsend. Talking to real people and not dealing with the high percentage of bots is incredible.

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      Have you checked out the official app? Last I looked, it defaults to about 1 post visible at a time. You can adjust it to about 4 posts visible. Last I check, 1 of those posts was an ad and another was a recommended post.

      It already feels like Facebook.

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    …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…

    OUR WEBSITE, 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.

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    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):

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    These definitely sound like the actions of a company that is in no way threatened at all not even a little bit.

    /s

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    From NBC News interview :

    “If you’re a politician or a business owner, you are accountable to your constituents. So a politician needs to be elected, and a business owner can be fired by its shareholders,” he said. “And I think, on Reddit, the analogy is closer to the landed gentry: The people who get there first get to stay there and pass it down to their descendants, and that is not democratic.”

    Eat sand /u/spez.

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      Funny. When my 10 year old account gets banned by some 6 month old power tripping mod account I’m told “moderators get to decide who can participate in their communities” and given zero recourse.

      Now when mods go on strike, they’re told it’s undemocratic and that mods shouldn’t get to decide who participates in their communities just because they moderate those communities.

      Fuck this weasel.

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      CEO is beholden to shareholders. He would be replaced with someone tasked with doing the same thing.

      Capitalism

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        Would still be poetic justice. Remember when they threw Ellen Pao under the bus? They forgot to hire a scapegoat for this round of unpopular decisions.

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    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

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      Yeah, I literally just saw that in my feed and was about to edit the post. I don’t know what’s up with the conflicting reporting.

      Sorry, everyone.

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        No, I’m not saying you or MacRumors are wrong. I’m saying Spez is being Spez, lying directly to the public’s faces while doing exactly what he says he’s not doing.

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    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…

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    OK, third time trying to post this comment after my previous two never went through 🥲

    I’ve seen a lot of people predict that this would be their next move if the blackouts continued. It’s sad to see them actually begin with the threats though :/

    I’m wondering if this is a sort of desperation move because of advertisers looking at removing spending from reddit if things continue - starting to put the screws on the mods. :( Particularly since they say advertisers would start thinking about moving away if things stayed dark for a couple of weeks.

    I don’t know, I’m heading to bed, rewritten this three times and I’m not a good speaker, so apologies for it not being very coherent! 😅

    Anyway, still many shames on reddit. I hope the blackouts continue so that advertisers leave. Booooo reddit booooo.

  • SharkEatingBreakfast@beehaw.org
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    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.