“If a moderator team unanimously decides to stop moderating, we will invite new, active moderators[…]. If […] at least one mod wants to keep the community going, we will respect their decisions and remove those who no longer want to moderate from the mod team.”
Not only the protesting mods will not return back, but those strikebreakers will end up with crappy tools and consumers with a terrible app increasing spam and reducing engagement.
Their application of the “Moderator Code of Conduct” is shoddy and slapdash to say the least.
I was a mod for /r/Edinburgh and after a post about people handing out anti-semitic leaflets (and the subsequent fascist-baiting and ban-hammering) I started getting reported by butthurt nazi supporters for abusing them in the thread, Modmail and DM’s, but I’m the one that got a permanent account suspension (even though according to the CoC that shouldn’t have happened), the UK mod-relations admin and other admin just ghosted me and another mod who tried to get involved and help.
To put a festering cherry on the shit-sundae, some of those pro-fascist scumbags are still active and commenting.
So after all these years now we get a tool to deal with problematic mods?
Only when its inconvenient for spez. Normal users get fucked by shit mods for a decade, radio silence.
We knew they would do that
Kind of weird how much they seem to want to destroy reddit - right before selling it, too
They aren’t selling it are they? It’s IPO going public.
An IPO is essentially selling it - to public investors rather than private ones.
yeah, they’ll go public, sell all their stocks and watch it burn.
Yeah, moderate your empty sub, because all your content creators have moved here.
Bets on how long it will take google to realise that site:lemmy should index the whole fediverese to keep their top spot?
because all your content creators have moved here
That is drastically overselling our success here.
Reddit will survive this. It’ll be a worse Reddit, with slightly more reposts, slightly less OC. Some percentage will move on, and a percentage of that percentage will move here.
If we manage to build communities that have enough people to be engaging, that is a win. We will not kill Reddit, and anyone who believes that needs to readjust their expectations.
I wholeheartedly agree with your statement. But I believe in small steps. I haven’t been on Reddit since the API announcement on /r/Apollo. I won’t be back, I absolutely love the idea of a platform that isn’t owned by someone - in the same way I love an open source project.
Indeed, do not undersell the longterm success of this. Also many gloss over of how unrealiable reddit is as a business towards third parties considering annual contracts in the form of subscriptions for their apps. That was a scummy, if not scammy move, no matter the legalities of it.
Yeah “all the creators moved here” is a bit optimistic
There’s probably some content creators leaving, but Reddit will fill the gaps with meme bots and unofficially sponsored posts.
Um yeah I don’t think that the ones geared towards casuals and super niche enthusiast subs like /r/MachineEmbroidery/ and /r/baduk will migrate with the already low amount of traffic they generate on Reddit… Reddit needs to do something on the level of being SUPER DRASTIC to let that happen. The most important thing about Reddit is that it’s convenient to browse, they have to make it super inconvenient like imagine every subreddit blacking out (and exceptions don’t count) then users will flock elsewhere (but most likely Twitter and Facebook again because no end users are going to bother learning what “the fediverse” is when signing up for an account is already a huge hurdle for them. The only way to make an Lemmy strive is that they can offer something UNIQUE that nothing on Reddit can. Maybe let’s say there’s an upcoming video game, and the wiki makers/number crunchers of that game decide to host their content and research on Lemmy… and do not allow Reddit to repost there (but linking is important in order to refer them to Lemmy)… like that we can have some semblance of hope.
But Spez has contradicted this, which his odd: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/reddit-says-it-won-t-overrule-mods-and-force-subreddits-back-open/ar-AA1cBvUP
i mean, it’s Spez so the chance of him lying is pretty high.
Sure, but was he lying then or is he lying now? It’s hard to keep track of all his bullshit sometimes.
Seems like something that a scumball could reconcile easily enough; “we’re not overruling mods or forcing a subreddit back open. We’re just removing voluntarily inactive mods, and if whoever happens to step in after we do that wants to reopen the subreddit then that’s entirely their decision.”
We are witnessing the fall of a giant
That is some fucked up repugnant shit.
