The best thing that can happen is development on Lemmy or other alternatives actually makes progress.
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It's his self-assuredness that bothers me most. If his attitude towards his community (or product rather) are this bad pre-IPO just wait until after and they have to keep announcing revenue growth to Wallstreet every quarter.
Hes such an asshole
Maybe mods will keep more subreddits down indefinitely then.
Hopefully... there's another post on /c/lemmyworld stating that /r/adviceanimals forcibly removed the top moderator.
I'm guessing that they will replace all of the mod teams and forcibly re-open the subreddits.
Oh I am sure theyβre going to end up putting back a large number of subs. Itβs going to happen. The place will fill up with trash if there arenβt good dedicated mods taking care of things but Iβm sure the admins are going to force the major subs to reopen.
I think taking over subs will lead to a chain reaction of other subs blacking out again in protest ad nauseum. Good luck getting enough moderators to fill the void. He'll end up with a smaller number of generic large subs full of mediocre content for people he can more easily monetize; exactly what he wants.
I guess I understand why subreddits cannot be deleted altogether, but BOY it'd be nice to see. Or at least delete all the content before leaving... π
Called it.
Still he's going to end up with a site with lesser quality and mods that will have a harder time to moderate until the supposed new tools actually work (if they actually work).
Honestly? I think 4chan could have a field day trolling in there like they love to do.
Good luck doing that for 8000 subs
I'm guessing that they will replace all of the mod teams and forcibly re-open the subreddits.
Doubt that will go as well as they're expecting it to.
Unfortunately, he's probably correct. I think a lot of people are just going to cave and download the official app eventually, if they haven't already.
I accidently ended up on Reddit twice today through Google searches, I'm now adding -Site:Reddit.com to all my searches.

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