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Some of the planned blackouts will be temporary, others plan to shut their subreddits down indefinitely in protest.

  • Rentlar@lemmy.ca
    43·
    2 years ago

    Was thinking perhaps subreddits could just stop moderating and auto approve everything en masse… that would create a spam hell more beautiful than anything we would have seen before…

    Unmarked NSFW stuff highly upvoted on the front page, crypto bullshit in every sub, every subreddit doing a “If this gets 2 times X votes, I post again” making the frontpage useless. It would be total anarchy and cause Reddit to implode on itself before you can say “What Snoo”.

    I doubt this will happen in reality because people actually care about preserving their subreddits. Anyway enough pipedreaming.

    • m_talon@beehaw.org
      26·
      2 years ago

      If what they’re saying is true, that might happen anyway. A lot of moderation is done using third party bots that use the API. Without those, it all has to be done manually and no one has time for that. Even then a lot of the manual moderation is done using third party tools (again, impacted by the API change).

      Reddit’s about to pull an implosion that’ll make Twitter and Digg look like blips. I got the heck out of there and now I’m just sitting back with my popcorn and tea watching it all burn down.