Not like the privating protests ever had much in the way of teeth anyway. The overwhelming majority of mods weren't willing to actually leave, so it was just puffery. Any mod who was on reddit during the API protests and is still there has proven they will cave to whatever rules reddit throws at them.

It's spez and his board's site now, and they're making that very clear. It's kind of sad that everyone keeps contributing their time for free to a company that hates them.

"Protest is still allowed... If we approve it."

It also publicly noted that going NSFW (Not Safe For Work), a tool moderators used to add friction to accessing a subreddit and to make the subreddit ineligible for advertising, was “not acceptable.”

Easy solution here, post NSFW content in every sub 👍

Well duh, it hits their bottom line now when mods black-out major subs in protest.

But yall already know that...

Their is one site-wide protest they can all implement…

Take your permanent ban and like it!

I'd say that's a kinda a stretch, peaceful protests maybe, but peaceful and legal protests aren't the only type of protest as anyone who knows their history would be aware of. Violent and illegal protests are very much still possible even under this change, and they can very much hurt Reddit depending on how far they go.

Events like this could be considered a type of protest in the future, and while this one didn't do very much damage, ones which are more extreme very well could.

This shouldn't be surprising, do cyber companies think they are immune to the nasty kind of protest just because they can put artificial limits on the peaceful kind? Violent protest has happened all through history, it will no doubt continue into the cyber age, and it may get a whole lot uglier than just a few broken windows or a few cuts and scrapes.

Let’s tell people on the reddit posts discussing this to switch to Lemmy.

So the form of protest will be deranged shit posting and flooding the subreddits instead because mods will just let it happen. Will be good for the quality.

Reddit who?