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As some subreddits continue blackouts to protest Reddit's plans to charge high prices for its API, Reddit has informed the moderators of those subreddits that it has plans to replace resistant moderation teams to keep spaces "open and accessible to users."

Edit, there seems to be conflicting reporting on this issue:

While the company does “respect the community’s right to protest” and pledges that it won’t force communities to reopen, Reddit also suggests there’s no need for that.

Source: https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/15/23762501/reddit-ceo-steve-huffman-interview-protests-blackout

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

I feel like normie fed-based socials need to start going live like bluesky so people can finally get off these shitty platforms. We need a leader in the federation space.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

the idea that a cabal of mods were going to take things in a good direction was always unsound

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Stop giving thus self righteous, money hungry dickwad a voice, The Verge. Jesus christ. The more he talks, the dumber and more like Elon Musk he looks.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Spez “this isn’t impacting our bottom line” surely is acting like it is. Let the fire begin. Turn off all mod tools, all spam filters. Let the website turn into a shithole.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I read an article yesterday that had a brief mention of an advertising manager advising his clients to hold their campaigns, etc and see how this develops. The hold seemed to be less permanent than with Twitter. But seeing how it's not resolving totally on its own with some communities even permanently abandoning the platform (/r/StarTrek and associated subs), it might start having a bigger impact.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Reddit is already dead. Old.reddit will be removed soon.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Reddit has informed the moderators of those subreddits that it has plans to replace resistant moderation teams to keep spaces "open and accessible to users."

Honestly entirely predictable. Should really be a wake up call to moderators and communities that haven't gone dark that Reddit, Inc is not trustworthy (just like how spez has been willing to edit posts).

Good luck to Reddit trying to moderate 5000 new communities and not devolve into Twitter 2.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

As of now, more than 80% of our top 5,000 communities (by DAU) are open

I'm a bit paranoid that this could be a technical truth because the communities still closed have dropped in DAU.

Edit: Checked the blackout tracker, of the ones listed 205 are still closed or restricted, so it's probably an accurate claim, though it seems about half of the participating subreddits are still closed.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

They already removed some mods, it's not a threat it's Spaz being a jerk and awful person.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

/r/ModCoord is polling subs, a lot of support still for indefinite blackout

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (7 children)

allow ordinary users to vote moderators out more easily if their decisions aren’t popular. He said the new system would be more democratic and allow a wider set of people to hold moderators accountable.

blinks loudly What could go wrong? 🤣

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What we need to do is work with Reddit mods on niche / civil subs to encourage their user base to move here before reddit starts using scabs / censoring content

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"we will not force communities to reopen"

But

"we will invite new, active moderators to keep these spaces open and accessible to users"

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Union busting 101 - claiming the organizers are lazy and trying to skirt work and fire them asap

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I know I'm just nitpicking the headline but leave it to the apple community publication to make this about their app.

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