Fuck em. This is my first post on Lemmy and I'm happy it exists.

Dear person volunteering your time and effort for what you thought was a worthy endeavor. We're trying to commodify your work so we can make a killing so don't fuck it up for us.

Subreddits belong to the community of users...

Spez, read that again. Slower this time.

"we respect the protests, but we will remove everyone that will protest"

the part "decide that don't want to be a mod anymore" is so infuriating and unrespectful. Like they don't know what's goin on...

"Hey mod! Go back working for free so we can make money or we'll take action you peasant. You own nothing. Kneel and obey."

Steve Hoffman probably

Open it back up and just stop moderating it? Make them mildly infuriated that you're acting your wage.

Alright. They can hire some employees to moderate all of Reddit then.

Reddit: "Subreddits are for the community of reddit users who rely on them."

Community of reddit users: "We think the sub should stay private, and if you force it open, we'll spam sexy John Oliver and porn."

Reddit: "wait no not like that"

This message is mind-blowingly tone deaf.

“Reopen this, or else!”

But they’re carefully avoiding to say or else what. My guess is every next step option would cost them resources at the scale of subreddits they’re reaching out to, so they’re hoping that the empty threat alone will cause some to relent without costing them anything. Right?

A few days ago I didn't have a single reason to leave reddit. Yet, with so many reasons now, here I am, and I look forward to lemmy and kbin.

Subreddita belong to the community is not what reddit says when mods abuse their power

Moderating is volunteer work. Spez is a narcissist. Why volunteer for a narcissist?

Fuck em. God its nice to be able to say "fuck em" without having to worry about elon or spez getting butthurt and banning my account.

LMAO I got this too. Probably just gonna open 'er back up with minimal mod-activity. Let the bots and NSFW problems flow rampant.

lol, "subreddits belong to the community of users..." clearly doesn't belong to the users. That's the whole problem

Roses are red, violets are blue. Open your sub, or we'll boot you too.

Fuck Spez, Lemmy is doing alright. (I like community ran solutions better anyway)

They are slowly taking away the platforms of free speech. First they came for the self hosted websites; then they changed the search engine functions; then they came for twitter; now they are at Reddit. Make no mistake this is not just about an IPO. This is about controlling how the public communicates. Discourse is discouraged.

r/modcodeofconduct is spez. I guarantee it

Subreddits belong to the community of users…

So you're providing tools to allow democratic control of subreddits, right?

Right?

Fuck u/ModCodeOfConduct

I love the condescension here - your protest is "taking a break from moderating"

It’s hilarious to me that they are telling subs that they can’t just switch the NSFW button on like that, after they recently made the vape communities go NSFW against their will.

OMG, can you play a reverse uno card on this? So much of this argument is the problem with the changes they are making. So frustrating.

a duty to keep these spaces active Redditors rely on these spaces for information, support, entertainment, and connection.

I thought it was private property lmao. Conversation spaces shouldn't act as public plazas when they're private.

Guessing they’ll just restore a backup from before the shutdown and install new Reddit backed mods. I can’t see this really going any other way. Maybe the subscribed users will drop out of the restored subreddit, but I’m guessing most people just won’t care.

I just blocked *.reddit.com on my DNS servers. This page is history.

Sounds like "Yeah. Sometimes people accidently fall on the knife with their stomach you know. After that they prefer removing it and putting back for a few times to ease pain"

"subreddits belong to the community of users who come to the for support" good way to justify kicking a mod with a passion for such a community and forcing people to post only the things you want.

Because if you force people to have fun they'll be happy, of course.

Mhm I just got info that a certain Poo the bear wants to talk to you about strongarming communities. But don't worry, his methods definitely work.

this is so desperate. they write this stuff to make up an excuse for take away its creators and in the name of the "users". it's just so they can keep up their advertisement revenue im agry