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Alright, one point at a time:
If we weren't interested, we wouldn't have founded the community. We're now maintaining two. The Disneyland subreddit links here in its sidebar. While I'd agree that Reddit is somewhat of an ivory tower, bear in mind that it's a community we've cultivated for years and we have a sense of responsibility for them.
Link here, like we already are. We've never participated in "Reddit drama". The fact that we took a stand as-is was a big step for us.
When (not if) Reddit shoots itself in the foot, we can have a community here ready for them. Right now it's small. To a certain extent, that's positive... the mod tools on Kbin are lacking. But it's not like we're abandoning the community here.
Do you think Reddit cares? Honestly.
Also bear in mind that I am one person on a team. There are others who work alongside me that have voices which should be heard and respected. To that extent, a lot of them didn't want to even risk it. I don't have the authority (by design) to unilaterally override them.
Absolutely correct. We're the unpaid jannies, the suckers who need to touch grass. That's not sarcasm, btw - I really do think that. It's absolutely ridiculous that we do it at all, especially given the amount of abuse we get from... well, basically everyone.
Spez doesn't care about our users. We know that. Frankly, there are a lot of places on the internet that are run or controlled by those who don't care about others.
So spaces that do care are important.
We care about making our community a welcoming space, a little home on the internet. We care about stopping trolls that see the word "Disney" and want to cause as much damage as possible.
It is absolutely ridiculous to care. Because you're right - the site doesn't care. We are giving them value and expecting nothing. They depend on us to care, and they treat us any way they want because they know we're too goddamn soft to let harm come to the communities we try and protect.
But there are people who need these little rest stops. They need a place to post a picture of their Mickey Mouse balloon, or their engagement photo in front of the castle, or their debate about what on earth the writing on some poster says. It makes them happy and there's a whole blossoming community there, of happy people in a safe space.
If we didn't have a passion for keeping that around, we would've quit a decade ago. That isn't posturing, that's the truth.
What on earth do I even get out of being a mod otherwise? A stupid green badge that says "please yell at me?" I don't even get that badge outside of my sub. I'm not a powermod; /r/Disneyland is the only major sub I mod. The only others I run are teeny tiny, maybe 600 users. We're not a Reddit partner community that gets wined and dined.
We're just some stupid, terminally-online folks who need to touch grass. Doing unpaid labor for an abusive place that doesn't care. All to make some little virtual people on the other side of a box (who also hate us) happy.
Have you considered shifting to a model of only permitting disneyfied John Oliver image posts?
"Do you think Reddit cares? Honestly."
My post says what I think. Of course they don't they haven't cared for the better part of 8 years. It's why I ran PDS and stopped with using Reddit as of this week.
"But there are people who need these little rest stops. They need a place to post a picture of their Mickey Mouse balloon, or their engagement photo in front of the castle, or their debate about what on earth the writing on some poster says. It makes them happy and there's a whole blossoming community there, of happy people in a safe space."
You know that Reddit will use this as leverage whenever they can right?
"We're just some stupid, terminally-online folks who need to touch grass. Doing unpaid labor for an abusive place that doesn't care. All to make some little virtual people on the other side of a box (who also hate us) happy."
Why would you even talk about yourself like that?
If it wasn't clear I am hardcore in the moderator camp.
I would not be a moderator even if you would glue me to a chair and threaten me to mod or I would be forced to watch every season of seinfeld in that same chair. I absolutely despise seinfeld.
You are literally the gateway between the community and Reddits pockets. Why do you think that Facebook pays a buttload of cash for their moderators.
I come of as harsh maybe, but for some reason I feel like I care more for the moderators then the moderators do for themselves.
You should be proud of the work you do and the shit you take on the daily.
Sorry if I come on strong, but believe me it isn't to dunk on you or the moderators in any way, shape or form.
I am probably way to invested in this part of the saga so I will stop posting about this part at all.
You're doing great. I'm not on your subreddit, but you don't deserve people piling on here. Thanks for everything you do, and I hope this transition doesn't cause you too many gray hairs :)
If the community is as important to the users as you believe them to be then those who truly do value the resources of the community will move.
I value the resources of r/FREEMEDIAHECKYEAH and /r/piracy over the years so much that I came to lemmy. I didn't see /r/piracy's initial plans to do an indefinite shutdown as something that would hurt me, but something I fully supported and was more than happy to join them on lemmy to find a new home.
Reddit was why I found communities like those two, but reddit was not what I needed for them to always have to be on. Those who don't feel the same will just run off to whatever other piracy resource is there regardless of whether mods or removed or different.
So I guess what I'm trying to say as one of the regular people is you don't need to worry so much about hurting us. And to us this wasn't just a fight over communities but stuff like the freedom to use third party apps and great third party extensions like RES. I didn't want to have to use the terrible reddit website on my phone to interact with my communities, or have to use their spyware official app. I was happy mods were willing to fight for users like us who didn't have any power at all.
You're doing great. I'm not on your subreddit, but you don't deserve people piling on here. Thanks for everything you do, and I hope this transition doesn't cause you too many gray hairs :)
You sound like a great and super reasonable person. Reddit was lucky to have your help and it’s a shame they don’t appreciate you and mods like you more.
Funny enough with how beehaw is defederating from a bunch of instances that pose a threat to disturbing the safe positive vibes here seems like beehaw would be a good place to start that community here. And help reduce modding oversight with how instances with users who step over the line repeatedly can get the entire instance defederated like what happened to lemmy.world.
I'm not sure how open or closed kbin is to walling off groups that are potentially hostile.
Beehaw doesn't allow you to create communities. They were our initial choice until we learned that.
Kbin is against hate speech, which is all I ask for. And we had issues with those users on Reddit regardless; Reddit doesn't instantly ban someone the moment they spout the n-word across 12 subreddits.
Usually AutoMod catches/removes it, then we ban when reviewing modqueue. (Which the official app doesn't have last time I checked.) AutoMod doesn't exist here, which makes that harder... but we're small enough that it doesn't matter.
You can request communities.