that was faster than I expected tbh

Classic strikebusting. "Oh you won't work for an increasingly bad shake? Guess I'll put these scabs in place instead."

They're digging their own graves.

freenode, twitter, reddit. shit like this is always a sign of the end

reddit has a duty to keep subreddits open if they dont want their IPO to die in a fire.

reddit does not give a flying fuck about their users - it hasnt for quite some time.

stay private/blacked out for eternity, let that platform collapse.

This makes me think the protests are having more of an impact than they are admitting. Gotta be feeling a hit financially withs ads to make this sort of move this early. Oh well fuck em. Only reason I've visited in the past week was to nuke my 16 year old account.

Remember guys, best thing you can do to get people to move off of reddit is to post more on Lemmy and Kbin

For communities you want but don't exist on either of them yet, make it! And crosspost to other comms so people know it exists!

Flash forward 8-10 months and the news post reads: “After catastrophic exodus Reddit asks to join the #fediverse to add content to platform in hopes of salvaging doomed IPO”

They have two options: either hire someone and pay them to mod subreddits or open positions to (even more then currently) unreliable powertripping users who will destroy the platform.
I'm fine with both options. I'm not going back, btw.

Didn't they already put a scab in r/adviceanimals?

Mods don't have a duty to do shit, Reddit doesn't pay them anything, doesn't even offer premium at a discount or anything.

Maybe if Reddit was more concerned with not creating a toxic hellspace, they wouldn't need to rely on volunteers to keep their billion dollar corporation running smoothly. Everything about this pisses me off so fucking bad.

Where do they get off saying mods have a DUTY to them, when they LITERALLY are volunteers and reddit gives them nothing.

And maybe if Reddit wasn't killing third party mod tools......like the moderation still isn't gonna be the same no matter how many people you appoint bc you killed the tools that made it possible.

If your platform depends on the labor of unpaid volunteers, threatening them is not only super shitty, it's also generally a really bad idea

Fuck /u/spez

If you strike us down we will become more powerful than you can imagine...

Whatever this turns out to be it will establish a precedent that all social media conglomerates will set the bar at.

surprising absolutely nobody....

There's always the nuclearoption: ban everyone, remove everything on the way out the door. I'm sure reddit admins can reverse it, they probably store everything in the database to sell later, but at least if they try to pull that stunt replacing mods they can be in for a huge pain in the ass.

There is no way I'm going back to Reddit, the higher ups are greedy and scummy people. Hope the moderator's they change to end up creating a toxic cess pool and bring them down with it.

Wow! So Reddit is actively stealing the work of creators. It's even worse than I had imagined. I am very glad that I have left the platform now!

Let them do it, only pushes more people to alternatives.

All of Reddit's benefits are going to be slowly stripped away. They are under the belief that market saturation is all they need to keep Reddit relevant, but that's not the case.

Redditors should scorch earth their content contributions. That way u/spez replacing the mods is only going to result in an open but crippled subreddit.

I don't get why mods haven't at least made sticky threads in every sub where they simply ask users to use uBlock Origin to block all Reddit ads and to check out backup communities on Lemmy?

Imagine trying to go public and creating this firestorm right before doing it. Complete incompetence.

I'm gonna laugh my ass of in the end of these hostile mod removals, they end up paying them and their now reddit employees with a union..

Imagine being the only mod in a large subreddit, leading an army of untrained recruits. What does that mean for the health of that community? The quality of the subjects and posts isn't going to be very good, particularly if people start birigading or something.

They are getting rid of their best volunteers.

Well, there you have it. The "we only care about money" we were waiting for /s. Expect changes to increase profit to affect users even more than this, reddit as we knew it is dead