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Reddit Threatens to Remove Moderators From Subreddits Continuing Apollo-Related Blackouts (www.macrumors.com)
submitted 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) by to c/technology@beehaw.org
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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

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[–] 113 points 3 years ago (8 children)

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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  • [–] 19 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I feel the same way. Critical mass has already been reached

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago

    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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  • [–] 15 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 18 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    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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  • [–] 10 points 3 years ago

    Lemmy is a “ground floo” 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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  • [–] 9 points 3 years ago

    Yeah I agree that enough attention has been placed on Lemmy for it to pop in Redditors heads when they start thinking of other sites to go to. It won't happen overnight but that'll also give the Lemmy devs time to apply some fixes and add new features.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 years ago

    Agreed, I have moved on. Lemmy is at the place now that it feels more like what the Internet should be. It feels more personal and tight knit. By the end with reddit, I felt so much like a tiny fish in a gigantic pond that it felt completely pointless to comment on anything.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 years ago*

    Im nkt here to hunger strike from reddit until i get hungry. Im willing to hunger strike till i die. Fortunatly lemmy seems to be a source of nourishment but ive made my decision.

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