As some subreddits continue blackouts to protest Reddit's plans to charge high prices for its API, Reddit has informed the moderators of those...

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.”

Edit, there seems to be conflicting reporting on this issue:

While the company does “respect the community’s right to protest” and pledges that it won’t force communities to reopen, Reddit also suggests there’s no need for that.

Source: https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/15/23762501/reddit-ceo-steve-huffman-interview-protests-blackout

  • pbjamm@beehaw.orgEnglish
    24·
    2 years ago

    From NBC News interview :

    “If you’re a politician or a business owner, you are accountable to your constituents. So a politician needs to be elected, and a business owner can be fired by its shareholders,” he said. “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.”

    Eat sand /u/spez.

    • CmdrShepardEnglish
      19·
      2 years ago

      Funny. When my 10 year old account gets banned by some 6 month old power tripping mod account I’m told “moderators get to decide who can participate in their communities” and given zero recourse.

      Now when mods go on strike, they’re told it’s undemocratic and that mods shouldn’t get to decide who participates in their communities just because they moderate those communities.

      Fuck this weasel.

    • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      10·
      2 years ago

      And remind us who’s been maintaining that system for so long? I seem to remember spez saying something to the effect of “it’s democratic because you can just start another community”.