r/iPhone will be going private indefinitely (3.82 mil subscribers) - joining r/videos and many other subreddits

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Originally, the protest was planned to be 48 hours. However, after a shambolic AMA held by Reddit's CEO, it has become clear to us that Reddit doesn't intend to act in good faith. When the CEO is willing to lie and spread libellous claims about another third-party developer, and then try double down by vilifying them, again, in an AMA, despite being proven as a liar by the developer through audio recordings, that's when we knew what we were up against. Therefore, the subreddit will be privatised until such time as a reasonable resolution is proposed.

androidul,

Reddit CEO and his other gangsters don't even care ... it's nice though that everyone's protesting on Reddit, I love that! Sad truth is just that they don't really care, least everyone can do is leave the platform but that's not going to happen. Also, I truly don't understand why they don't move here?

hydrospanner,

The learning curve is definitely steeper here, which will be a barrier to a lot of the most casual users.

androidul,

but if Apollo would be ported to Lemmy, would that make it simpler?

Ignacio,
Ignacio avatar

r/unixporn is also going private indefinitely.

jason,

Won’t matter. Based on recent behavior I’d expect any reasonably large sub to be forcibly reopened by the admins after a couple days. If the current mods won’t cooperate then they’ll be replaced by the hordes who want to go on a power-trip.

rlhe,

This scenario has happened before, has it not? Why would anyone expect that Reddit will respond differently this time and walk back their plans?

nachtigall,

I wonder how long it takes until admins take over the communities

other_world,

I have a feeling all of the default subs will be taken over pretty quickly. The small subs will be forgotten about.

PunsNRoses,

I don't think the subs should go private, but rather they should just get straight-up abandoned. The admins will have a much harder time dealing with all the unmoderated content that will inevitably show up, and it will look way worse to advertisers.

Catsrules,

That just give Reddit an out for taking over subs, saying they are unmoderated.

If they go private then Reddit would need to forcibly take over the subs without a proper reason for doing it.

Nankeru,
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That's what I expect to happen as well. Nothing stops them from kicking out the current mods / admins, replacing them with new mods willing to take over and continue as before (or even use AI moderation tools to minimize the efforts).

SkyNTP,

Who though? Who wants to mod a community that big, for a company that will throw mods under the bus, for a company that is burning bridges with developers instead of finding reasonable compensation, for a company that that is so bad at supporting mods mods have to rely on third parties to support (which they are also burning bridges with), for a company that is "not profitable", for a company that is laying people off, not hiring.

AI moderation? No way they will "meet increasing regulatory compliance" with that.

What a fucking shitshow. There are just no words for how big of a hole Reddit has dug itself.

VioletteRei,

Is there a Apple community here to replace it?

Lyfa,
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