Reddit is going to remove mods of private communities unless they reopen — ‘This is a courtesy notice to let you know that you will lose moderator status in the community by end of week.’
Reddit has informed moderators of communities that are still private in protest that they will lose their mod status by the end of the week. Thousands of communities went dark earlier this month to push back on the company’s planned API pricing changes.
So they will reopen with the "malicious compliance" pictures of John Oliver or badly worded rules.
A week later Reddit will remove them anyway, because this is not a court or the fourth law of thermodynamics - Reddit can and will change any rules to keep the website running.
So the conclusion is: don't even bother. If you care about the community, use your last few days as mod to immediately migrate to Lemmy. If you care about the title of mod... Well, good luck on this cursed website.
Just removing all mods isn’t really the answer. Mods have a purpose, removing them all will lead to chaos in some subs. The John Oliver pictures aren’t just malicious compliance, they are also a taste of things to come without mods. Maybe Automod can remove some of the worst stuff, but excessively posting flowers in a sub for cars is just as detrimental and is totally at the whim of the mods to follow up on this. Since this is all about money, I cannot see a professional moderation team in the books. Additionally professionalized content moderation is much more complicated for Reddit than it is for other companies like Facebook. They just have to check against their “community guidelines”, but Reddit has a lot of cases, where something useful in one sub can be despised in another. I’d like to know what the endgame is.
Once people realize what they can get away with, the REAL trolls, not the John Oliver sexy pics groups, but the joker types with a "watch the world burn" mentality will start making their home there.
Without community moderation or bot tools, it will be like trying to fight a tsunami with a tennis racket.
use your last few days as mod to immediately migrate to Lemmy.
Well, no, they should first shred (overwrite then delete) all their Reddit comments.
Then they should create a new Lemmy or Kbin community and start posting content.
Then go back to Reddit and point to the new community until they get kicked off for actions detrimental to the financial wellbeing of spez or something.
All the news about reddit over the last few days have made me realise that I no longer personally care.
I mean it's still funny to read about the way subs are protesting, but I haven't been on the site since the protests, and now I don't get angry about the changes anymore. It's a sign that I've finally kicked reddit out of my life after more than a decade on the platform.
Yep. I got one of these messages last weekend. So what did I do? I created a new replacement community here and pinned a post to the re-openned subreddit encouraging people to migrate.
But I created it over a decade ago, grew it myself from nothing. I'm not giving up mod status
There was some discussion in /r/modcoord on how mods could actually sue Reddit for free labour. I'm not sure how viable it is, but at least it seems to me like there's some ground to stand on.
As long as you protest in a way that is ineffective, zero impact to Reddit, and makes good ol' Spez feel special, you can protest all you want I guess?
At least we now know that Reddit cares 0% for their users. Glad I migrated over.
Didn't they make this threat already once? Is this like that parenting thing where you keep shifting the deadline but acting like there'll be big consequences?
They also likely cannot do it. While they were sending pms to mods they completely failed at targetting private and restricted subreddits that aren't part of the protest, including ones that have been privated or restricted way before this month. And people saying there will always be people to replace the mods forgot how not-smooth that is going to go. Besides, the more Reddit antagonise its user base the more unstable it looks. It seems that despite the traffic returning to normal, many ads still haven't returned.
Nice, still trying to wrap my head around the separate instances. If they were truly federated, wouldn't they all tie into each other or am I missing something?
At this point I feel about the mods like I do people in abusive relationships. It‘s sad, but you can‘t stay in this relationship and expect to be treated well. You need to leave it, there is shelters available and I can tell you about that, but if you refuse to see how this is wrong and stay willingly, then there is nothing I can do.
I haven't seen it mentioned, so I'm guessing it's not the case (and I've never been a mod on Reddit so I have no idea how things work behind the scenes) - but is there anything preventing mods from just...nuking the entire subreddit? Deleting it? I mean I know Reddit could probably "un-delete" it but still, all mods of those private communities should just go full scorched earth and just nuke the subreddit rather than hand it over/have it taken away (again if that's an option. If not, just ignore).
52.99 out of the 53 million daily active Reddit users have no idea anything is happening. And if they eventually do figure it out, they wouldn’t care. I’m kinda over these “Reddit bad” posts.
People follow content and discussion, not user count. A site with a thousand active users could easily topple a site with a million doom scrolling 'users' .
Yeah, it's better to focus on growing the federated communities so by the time Reddit fucks up again (they will) the fediverse will be the clear path of migration for another wave of people that want to get out of Reddit.