▲ 305 ▼ Reddit communities with millions of followers plan to extend the blackout indefinitely (www.theverge.com) submitted 3 years ago by red@feddit.de to c/technology@beehaw.org 252 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] tanja@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 3 years ago (3 children) 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 permalink fedilink source hideshow 6 child comments replies: [–] red@feddit.de [S] 4 points 3 years ago Sure, they could go find new people who do this job for free (and thanks to the API changes virtually tool-less) or hire people to do it for them. Whether those people will be equally successful in nurturing their communities, who knows. But it's definitely an option and probably only a matter of time before it happens. permalink fedilink source parent [–] UselesslyBrisk@infosec.pub 4 points 3 years ago (1 child) Thats what they are doing https://twitter.com/aaronp613/status/1669464567074680835 permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] NuclearDolphin@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 years ago Comments around that tweet are a dumpster fire permalink fedilink source parent [–] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 3 points 3 years ago They could, but this would probably anger people further. So they’re hoping it blows over without them needing to take aggressive actions. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] red@feddit.de [S] 4 points 3 years ago Sure, they could go find new people who do this job for free (and thanks to the API changes virtually tool-less) or hire people to do it for them. Whether those people will be equally successful in nurturing their communities, who knows. But it's definitely an option and probably only a matter of time before it happens. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] UselesslyBrisk@infosec.pub 4 points 3 years ago (1 child) Thats what they are doing https://twitter.com/aaronp613/status/1669464567074680835 permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] NuclearDolphin@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 years ago Comments around that tweet are a dumpster fire permalink fedilink source parent
[–] NuclearDolphin@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 years ago Comments around that tweet are a dumpster fire permalink fedilink source parent
[–] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 3 points 3 years ago They could, but this would probably anger people further. So they’re hoping it blows over without them needing to take aggressive actions. permalink fedilink source parent