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I hope the struggle continues until Reddit feels the pain to their bottom line.
I guess Reddit has introduced free API calls for moderator apps. They're trying to placate the mods, but screw the users. Good luck with that.
Ahead of the Tuesday post, more than 300 subreddits had committed to staying dark indefinitely, SpicyThunder335 said. The list included some hugely popular subreddits, like r/aww (more than 34 million subscribers), r/music (more than 32 million subscribers), and r/videos (more than 26 million subscribers). Even r/nba committed to an indefinite timeframe at arguably the most important time of the NBA season. But SpicyThunder335 invited moderators to share pledges to keep the protests going, and the commitments are rolling in.
A surprising amount of big names there. I figured it would be more obscure/niche subreddits like /r/TaylorSwift, /r/SpaghettiWesterns, or something like that
Couldn't the Admin team just force-open subs, at least the big ones?
Am I missing something? I mean they could just hire new mods.
I hope they don't, but spez isn't exactly known for being righteous
They could, but this would probably anger people further. So they’re hoping it blows over without them needing to take aggressive actions.
The thing that worries me is if they do manage to get through this without losing anything significant, it’s only going to give them confidence to go further. How long before old.reddit goes? NSFW content? Blocking users with adblockers?
Then the people who still use Reddit can leave or accept the changes.
I expect the people who actually gave a beeswax are long gone than already at that point, so the community can then shout into the void if they would disagree.
I'm happy to find a place like Lemmy. It's good to have federated services that don't have to be at the beck and call of a group of heartless investors with the face of a petulant manchild like Spez.