"the mods decided to revert the NSFW designation because the community is a helpful resource for veterans experiencing mental health crises. The mod said that if Reddit removed the team, it could put the community at risk."
Bitch fudging please.
Please tell me again how these people are not power tripping their eyes out.
Imagine having no Reddit community to fall back on or having different mods into your community.. The horror!
Can these people;
Stop acting as if they really want change to happen.
Just start to bent over further for Reddit.
Get on with their life.
Admit that they really like their little power trip.
Think about things from the point of view of someone who has never used Reddit or the fediverse, but you've heard about them both from recent news articles and want to see what they are about....
I don't mind to pay for services, I don't mind to pay for extra's as long as the money goes to the people doing the work and the people doing the work increase or maintain the user experience of said service.
The whole "you just want free stuff" people were shouting on Reddit is a bunch of balony.
Hosting costs money
Infrastructure costs money
Developing costs money
Maintenance costs money
All the above also costs time.
So of course it is okay for people to donate or have some monetization possibilities to keep the lights on and getting paid for the work they do so they can make a full time living from it or use it as a part time gig.
But there is still a difference size rift between the above and trying to monetize every single thing from your platform/user base just because of greed.
It sounds like that you are just not interested in building a new community and rather go back to the ivory tower that is reddit.
If that is so just say it.
What are you gonna do when Reddit is gonna implement the next thing that would be unbeneficial to the community?
If you know that the possible new mods are asses, why not call reddits bluff?
Let them see what good moderation is about and what happens when you don't care about the good moderators for years.
You are probably afraid that a new mod team would do just a good a job as you and you will be forgotten after a day. Then of course what would be all this for if change wouldn't happen? Other questions you are asking yourself can entice; Is my moderation position really that hard to take over? Are the changes really affecting me?
You are probably afraid losing something that you put your own time and effort in and the idea that someone would ruin it or just take your place is a situation you are not ready for. I would understand all that but then why black out at all? Rigorous changes after 48 hours only happen in Disney movies, you should know that.
Sorry to say but most of the community does not give a damn about moderators and you know it. They care about the content that is provided to them that is what they are hooked on.
This only shows that Reddit has full control over you and your actions and they can do whatever they want to whomever they want because you will bulge the first second they threaten to take your moderations position away.
For the life of me I cannot understand why people would gladly be providing money in Reddits pockets, while the community and moderators don't see a penny, don't see any user improvements, get constantly lied to, while getting bend over on every turn.
I am gonna say this again; I thought moderators actually got paid by reddit. I was baffled when I heard a few days ago they weren't. I thought and still think it would be absolutely ridiculous to invest your time and efforts for a profit making company for absolutely nothing in return.
In the meantime Steve huffman is spitting in your and the communities face every step of the way, not caring about you or the community at all.
I have a whole lot of respect to the people who gave up their mod positions just to make a stand for themselves.
I really don't mind if subs stay open, if you like to moderate be my guest. If you don't agree with the blackout, sure.
But the posturing about the greater good for the community, just don't.
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."
It cannot be understated how much Spez fudged up in that AMA.
Effectively saying that the 3rd party apps are profitable while the "real" product is not is literally mind boggling.
If it is really 3% that uses 3rd party apps that means than that 3% can generate enough revenue for 3rd party developers to be profitable than the 97% of the "official users" who are for some reason not profitable for Reddit.
The branding for kbin is perfect for capturing the reddit migrators. The biggest friction point for the Fediverse is choosing an instance. If I want to join Lemmy, googling Lemmy takes me to a landing page with no join button, telling me to go to these other sites. Some of these sites even actively discourage signups, creating...
It is the same as r/Conservative which is ran/moderated by well probably conservatives and like minded but that doesn't mean that the whole of Reddit is pushing Conservative propaganda.
I hope people understand the difference.
If there are enough instances within a federation with different may I say progressive views than those will drown out the noise of others.
People only have "power" over their own instance.
As an instance you can even block instances that you don't want to communicate with (as far as I know).
Reddit demands moderators remove NSFW labels, or else (www.theverge.com)
Article by The Verge, providing details about various subreddits and their mods getting threatened because they are labeled as NSFW
OC Fediverse won't replace Reddit as long as Lemmy is the main platform being promoted
Think about things from the point of view of someone who has never used Reddit or the fediverse, but you've heard about them both from recent news articles and want to see what they are about....
Ordinary redditors are feeling the pain as well. (teddit.adminforge.de)
The protests worked, and so did moving/editing/deleting our old content. As one person complains,...
Elon Musk's Twitter moves were 'reaffirming' says Reddit boss amid API changes (www.theregister.com)
23k New Lemmy and Kbin Accounts Created in Last Hour (botsin.space)
According to threadcount...
Techradar Just Shouted Out Beehaw! (www.techradar.com)
From the article:...
What Reddit features do you *not* want kbin to have?
in what ways do you think kbin should strive to be different from Reddit?
2023 LEC Summer Week 1 Day 2 - LIVETHREAD
Livethread for the LEC Summer games - Week 1 Day 2....
YSK: When you want to lose weight, don't use fat loss "shake" plans.
You know all those "easy" 4 week weight loss plans from weight watchers or others?...
let's cut the "Reddit" circle jerk and start actually making content
Not that it is not interesting but I would like just a tad more variety on the front page....
Antiwork was forced to reopen by the admins (www.reddit.com)
What is your favorite summer fragrance? Or do you have more than one? What do you recommend?
For me the following;...
RIF developer counters Reddit CEO’s claims that he didn’t want to work with Reddit (www.theverge.com)
“I am willing to work with Reddit.”
Reddit CEO praises Elon Musk’s cost-cutting as protests rock platform (www.nbcnews.com)
Steve Huffman said in an interview that Elon Musk's cost-cutting at Twitter was inspiring and that the two have chatted "a handful of times."
2023 LEC Summer Week 1 Day 1 - LIVETHREAD
Livethread for the LEC Summer games - Week 1 Day 1....
Reddit Threatens to Remove Moderators From Subreddits Continuing Apollo-Related Blackouts (www.macrumors.com)
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."
Reddit CEO slams protesters, calls them “landed gentry” (www.nbcnews.com)
The Reddit blackout was pretty underwhelming
In the last 3 days I've been paying attention to r/all, expecting several posts about it and......
If brands were brutally honest. What brand would have what slogan?
Just wondering...
Reddit communities with millions of followers plan to extend the blackout indefinitely (www.theverge.com)
This will get interesting.
Reddit CEO tells employees that subreddit blackout ‘will pass’ (www.theverge.com)
Spez, and Reddit as a whole is basically counting on most subreddits opening back up tomorrow after the 48-hour period....
OC The branding for kbin is perfect
The branding for kbin is perfect for capturing the reddit migrators. The biggest friction point for the Fediverse is choosing an instance. If I want to join Lemmy, googling Lemmy takes me to a landing page with no join button, telling me to go to these other sites. Some of these sites even actively discourage signups, creating...
Thread on the two Lemmy developers at Lemmy.ml is removing content criticizing the chinese government for being 'orientalist', meaning racist (lemmy.world)
Link: https://lemmy.world/comment/43639...