Horrible move but it looks like a lot of subs are going to roll over and take it - I guess this was always the plan and that reddit figures its better to move quickly to prevent protests taking hold.
Hoping more will break away and move here instead but not expecting a mass exodus.
I closed my twitter last year because Elon is a scumbag, I'll happily do the same on reddit.
If they did this normally instead of the garbage sub request system then honestly their site might be a little fucking better, but doing it just now is blatant and gross
I wonder if this is targeted at mods where perhaps the subs are open, but the mods are not actively performing their duties as a form of protest.
Interesting since there was an article, like yesterday, of Reddit saying they weren't going to remove mods. I guess its time to make an aged like milk community here on Lemmy if there isn't already one.
Some have re-opened and just changed the rules so that posts are basically spam. Like r/pics is only John Oliver looking sexy. They're technically not closed, but just as worthless to Reddit from a content perspective.
Yeah, moderating a large sub isn't as shake-and-bake as the admins seem to think. They might "hire" scabs, but the scabs are probably going to slack off pretty hard and might not even understand the tools and procedures that can make it effective but not stifling to content.
Found a script (extension; Nuke Reddit History), to erase my comment history on reddit. Has to be run multiple times if you have a lot of comments. (apparently it was removed from firefox and chrome, so i'm using Edge... but hey, if it gets the job done... i think it can do posts too, but am not at that stage yet. First, comments. as deleting a post doesn't erase the comments you typed there.
For those who still have a reddit account, I took the liberty to remind u/spez that he, too, wasn't democratically elected, so I created a referendum post on whether he should remain in his position as a CEO. Maybe give this an upvote if you want to.
Literally founded the place; chosen by co-founders/people with stakes in the company to be their CEO. That's how businesses work, OP, stop being silly.
It's my basic inalienable human right to scrool and upvoot my reddits with Apollo on my iPhone! Give it me now or I'll run away you... you feudal Nazi!!1!
No problem with that. The hypocritical part is that he argued that mods are bad, because they aren't chosen democratically. Here's the quote I have trouble with:
“If you’re a politician or a business owner, you are accountable to your constituents." “And I think, on Reddit, the analogy is closer to the landed gentry: The people who get there first get to stay there and pass it down to their descendants, and that is not democratic.”
He says, the mods are bad because they haven't been elected. But neither has he.
If he wants to suppress mods because they weren't voted in, maybe there should be a vote about his position.
undefined> mods are bad, because they aren’t chosen democratically
Why do you think a guy who started/runs the company should be held to the same standards as its users? I open a cake shop, I get to make the rules, even though I'm not 'democratically elected' by my customers. The very idea that someone has to vote me in is hilarious to me. If, in my shop, I let you run a lemonade stand, you won't have the same rights as I. How is this not obvious?
So because he's the CEO he shouldn't be held to standards? Bold take.
But sure, he doesn't have to follow any standards. He can run Reddit in the ground as much as he likes. But he can't expect the mods and the users to stay if he holds others to ridiculous standards while not caring a bit about his own standards.
Yeah, but what's Reddit without mods and users? Tumblr.
Most subs I frequented were actively looking for new mods because nobody wanted to do the job as-was. If he really kicks out mods en masse, who is going to replace them? They had difficulties finding enough mods when Reddit wasn't actively fighting against the mods.
I have the feeling, the current mess will be enough to fold reddit into nothing. With that move they managed to piss off the mods and the users. None of the app makers is going to pay the fee, they are all just quitting. And with that, Reddit won't be making more money but instead they'll just lose users.
If they are running critical as-is, this won't improve anything.
Indifferent to reddit, always assumed it was an ordinary, profit-driven business that happens to host some turboautist tech subs that i like; kinda annoyed by the jannies.
this won’t improve anything.
Dunno. In spez's place, i'd probably anticipate the pushback & appease devs & jannies until plan B was firmly in place be more diplomatic. Then again, know nothing about running social media sites or taking them public.
That is not what they said and you know it, don't be obtuse.
Of course the CEO of the company gets more freedom than you, a user. Guess what, if you're in my house you have less freedom than I do. I can do whatever the fuck I want, because it's my house. You do not get to do whatever you want in my house, because it's my house. Bold take, I know.
Yeah his argument is dumb - if you don't like a particular sub or how it is run, you can (or could), create a new one. This new move by reddit makes that pointlesss- literally saying if they don't like how you run it, they'll take it over. How is that 'democratic'?
Replacing mods is a fun idea. But where do you get replacement mods from? Already before the whole debacle most subreddits had more or less intrusive "We are looking for new mods" statements all around their sub. One sub I'm in has a bot that comments on every post that they are urgently looking for mods.
And that was before Reddit started a war with the mods.
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