Cool, so now the alt-right nutbags who control r/canada can take over all the other Canadian subreddits and promote far right propaganda and hatred in all the local subs too?
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This is a feature people have been asking for since the beginning and is only being talked about or introduced because it’s politically convenient for the admins.
I really hope this backfires and is only a means to an end of the users replacing scabs until the site grinds to a halt.
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Could larger subreddits use this to take over and delete smaller subreddits by voting in new mods who shut it down?
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Who says the elections are going to be fair? From what I know about Spez they aren't going to be.
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Man, it's an absolute shitshow over there. The only thing holding people there, much like Twitter, is their addiction. I admit I miss it, but continuing to use these services sets such a bad precedent. I wish there were some better way to show people how much better the Fediverse is and how it keeps asshats like Huffman and Musk from making shit decisions for everyone else.
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Which is why I sat for hours this morning, manually deleting all the posts in my subreddit. He is welcome to now hand it to someone else...
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Corporate gonna corpo, just how it is. I'm all for continuing the fight though! They don't care about the health of reddit, just if it makes it past the IPO so they can cash out and run.
And if those users allow the sub to stay closed? He's going to reopen them by force anyway. This is posturing.
Oh, wow, talk about mask-off enshittification of the internet! If I were anyone in the fediverse, be it kbin, lemmy, masto, or whathaveyou, I'd very seriously start talking about what kinds of monetization we ourselves can establish so we can avoid the shitstorm that's going on on the big SMNs.
IF (and that's a big if) we can monetize ourselves, we very well could be able to stop investors and shareholders from enshittifying what we are now able to use. Otherwise, we are just running on a treadmill of platforms that start off with great ability and promise, but who's ultimate goal is to be enshittified.
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I predict a lot of brigading to take over smaller subs by bad actors.
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Ok. Vote out the moderators and then what? Obviously the community can't go unmoderated, so where does the power go?
There's only two ways this goes:
- Voting out moderators turns into voting for moderators. Turning moderation into public office turns moderators into politicians.
- Voting out moderators turns into surrendering control to Reddit admins. Small subreddits will be ignored and turned into unmoderated ditches while big subreddits will be converted into puppets.
I am sure they will find a lot of "users" who will vote... and then they can claim it was a fair game, haha. I am really enjoying this from afar. Not a day passes until another hilarious "press statement" from that spez. I really loved Reddit for what it was with all the smaller niche communities. These are the ones I miss here, but I hope growth continues and good people come over to populate the fediverse and bring over their unique ideas and discussions.
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Too late lol
Can we vote out u/spez ?
Good luck on finding new ones!
If only this was an option since forever.
Power hungry mods who want their own fiefdom to rule over are nasty.
No way that's going to backfire.
I'll be he thinks if ppl have to login to try and keep the blackout going it's a win win. I'm so glad he helped so many of us leave. I probably deleted reddit twice a year bc of how toxic it was for me mentally.
Well that surely wouldn't backfire in the most spectacular way ever. I mean, it's not as if Reddit has ever had any vote brigading and botting issues, right? Right?
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