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Reddit is just a Karen now
I saw a couple days ago they are not even respecting subreddits that were actually private from the beginning. I saw the mod of a private breastfeeding group freaking out because they were going to make the whole thing public.
Their tools are just not up to keep track of all these things.
If only someone developed some third-party tools that could better help them with their job…
I literally used the default Reddit app all the time, they made so much ad revenue off of me.
Now they are making none.
So I assume this means they will open up their shitty lounge that you need Premium to access, right?
The private breastfeeding WHAT? Mother of God, this is vilest of the vile. And, speaking of u/spez, that really is saying something…
I’m surprised none of the big subs decided to say “ok, fuck you.” And nuke the sub
If they attemtped this Reddit admins would 100% revert it and ban whoever agreed to do it.
They can’t, Reddit doesn’t allow mods to delete subreddits:
All part of the plan to keep their sinking ship afloat, I suppose
They could nuke all posts, right? If I remember correctly r/piracy did this once in fear of the sub being delete by reddit itself because of legal issues.
Reddit probably has backups if that happens, but still…
Given the lows to which Reddit has stooped lately, I wouldn’t be surprised to see Reddit respond to that by filing a lawsuit against the mod seeking nine figures in damages.
Which makes me hope even more somebody does it.
They can’t delete it as far as I am aware. They could delete all posts and perma-private it I think, but that would be extremely tedious and the admins could revert everything a lot easier.
When you’re working within their frameworks, effective protests are limited. It’s why I just left.
I heard mods cannot delete their own subreddit https://support.reddithelp.com/hc/en-us/articles/360043044052-How-do-I-delete-a-community-I-ve-created-
Reddit would crumble badly very soon is those unpaid mods just immediately give up. The chaos will definitely doom Reddit and fast.
But it’s clear that mods there would rather suffer than give up their made up power.
Hard to give yo virtual power when its all you have sitting in your mothers basement eating cheezy poof because you’re a good mod…
Of all the assorted protests I saw, I liked what interestingasfuck did the most. Just said “f it, here is what subs will look like with the bare minimum modding” and walked away. Mess up their front page, their advertising, and actually show what an unmodded major reddit sub would look like.
If every sub had done that instead of some milquetoast 48 hour blackout, I think it would have been at least moderately more impactful.
r/redditrequest is a disgusting feeding frenzy right now. For every mod that’s continuing the protest or has already been “fired”, there’s a dozen people desperately begging to be allowed to do free labor for that tiny bit of authority they’ll get on their corner of reddit.
Reddit can get f’ed.
Also, please donate so that we can have lemmy servers up all the time.
These actions are further diminishing the public’s trust in them.
Im betting they are counting on most users just not being involved or caring.
They’re probably right, depressingly.
I can’t make anyone else leave, but I did what I could by leaving personally. I am generally enjoying the experience over here more anyway, so I am not missing a whole lot. Maybe a couple niche subs, but I was considering working on launching equivalent communities over here.
I’m really interested to see what happens at the end of this week. I have a group of friends that all hang out in discord and out of the group (about 12 of us) I’m the only one that’s moved on from Reddit. Every time I see one of them post a Reddit link I want to say something but I just keep quiet and don’t follow the links. I’m guessing this is just going to blow over for 90% of the people on Reddit and I’m fine with that but it is somewhat depressing to me folks aren’t as bothered by what they are doing to third party apps.
Honest question, why keep quiet? I assume they are aware of the shit that went down in Reddit, if you provide Lemmy as an alternative some may actually try it and end up liking it more. The more people swap over the more it becomes an attractive alternative for others.
You don’t have to be obnoxious about it, but just a suggestion could interest them.
So, say something. It can feel hard, but what’s the worst that can happen?
Even just show a friend how one of their favorite communities has moved. Or just share a lemmy.world link instead of a reddit.com link to a similar post.
Getting folks to move off facebook messenger or something like that to Signal felt similar about 5-8 years ago. But… enough shitty news stories and worse-and-worse scandals, and just consistently mentioning it as an option works pretty well. These things snowball
They are losing 1. Quality in UGC; 2. Quantity in UGC; and 3. Unpaid mods, which are all considered most important assets in terms of their (Spez’s) IPO.
I’m waiting till Apollo is officially dead, then handing over the subreddit I modded for about 4 years now to whoever wants it.
If your plan is to leave anyway, they have no leverage over you. I’m curious why you didn’t keep your sub private.
Don’t hand it off. Just stop doing the work.
I’ll take it to dedicate it to posts about Lemmy migration
I have altered the deal. Pray I do not alter it again. /Darthvader
I guess there gonna reopen r/jailbait and make u/spez the mod
Take my sub. I could give two shits. Reddit is the new MySpace.
Reddit declined to comment
That means what The Verge says is 100% correct. Reddit will speak when there’s corrections to make. :-)
Running power delete while I still can, just changing everything to a poem I like.
"The taste
Of rain
…why kneel"
They can revert it back or whatever, that’s out of my control. Reddit sucks, it’s a closed and controlled system, I’m good on that.
Fuck /u/spez. When it was just the API changes I might have grudgingly continued using reddit, but after this display I don’t think I will. Reddit has shown yet again that huge social media companies cannot be trusted to act in the interests of their users.
Yeah, I was still considering using it only on PC after they ruined third-party apps, but after this sequence of events I can’t stand being on that platform.
That’s where I’m at as well.
I was under the impression that I’d just hit it up on desktop every once and again. But now? I feel dirty using the site at all. Really hard to feel comfortable supporting that kind of behavior.
I have been casually browsing during work on my desktop.
The quality of content has dropped significantly. To the point that this morning I replaced the reddit link with a Lemmy one.
