• Orion (awooo)@pawb.socialEnglish
    20·
    2 years ago

    This sort of thing is why it bothers me when people mention staying and fighting on centralized platforms. You are fighting code, your existence on these places is not tangible and you can be stripped of it without physical force. Online dictatorships are not like offline ones, they can only fall when they run out of money, which happens when they run out of all of you.

  • KoboldCoterie@pawb.socialEnglish
    17·
    2 years ago

    Hopefully the users of these subs provide enough backlash for this that it doesn’t work out in Reddit’s favor. If not, they’re just incentivized to keep doing it. Only way to prevent it is if we as users make it less profitable for them to do this than it is to let the protest continue or reverse the API decision.

    • Wander@yiffit.netOPEnglish
      20·
      2 years ago

      Or we just leave and take our content elsewhere. In the end reddit itself doesn’t generate any content. It’s all user created. We just have to leave.

  • Yote.zip@pawb.socialEnglish
    16·
    2 years ago

    Somehow, I don’t think trying to silence all of reddit about this topic is going to work out like they’re planning. A complete hostile takeover is not something redditors will forget, even if they stay on reddit. Other reddit moderators are also watching this behavior towards their peers and it’s likely turning the ones that were on the fence against reddit admins. PR-wise, this is a really really bad move, and it’s also a lot of extra fuel for the fire to go against the 48-hr “peaceful protest” aspect of the blackout.

  • Lockely@pawb.socialEnglish
    16·
    2 years ago

    They’ve nuked the modlist for r/tumblr too and opened it back up. Whomever they handed it to took it private again.

    • black0ut@pawb.socialEnglish
      7·
      2 years ago

      Did they have a “reason” this time or did they just take over it? And congrats to the mod who made it private again. This is the way.

      I don’t think protesting or creating backlash could change the behaviour of the mods (spez has been caught editing users comments before, for example). But I do think that angering redditors could ultimately be good, because they will start looking for other alternatives to Reddit. The only real way to hurt the company is a mass exhile by the users that generate the content.

  • foxy@pawb.socialEnglish
    4·
    2 years ago

    I was gonna put money into their IPO too, my whole life savings of $20. Now it is clear they are a few disasters waiting to happen

    • Milez_W@pawb.socialEnglish
      8·
      2 years ago

      lol don’t put any money into their IPO. It’s impossible to predict where the market goes, no exceptions, but reddit is most certainly a stock no one should invest in, given the current light of events.

  • Wahots@pawb.socialEnglish
    4·
    2 years ago

    That was their fault though. Head mod can rank trusted members so that they can’t be overridden and stabbed in the back by one of their own. I did that on a sub I moderated just to make sure that there wouldn’t be a hostile takeover attempt.

    Still shitry, regardless.

    • Redex@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      2 years ago

      It’s not like another mod from the same subreddit made a hostile takeover. Reddit itself removed the head mod. It’s not like they can stop the owner of the platform from removing them.

  • Cyanicalarts@pawb.socialEnglish
    4·
    2 years ago

    This is going to result in one hell of a Streisand effect of they keep it up. Reddit PR team needs to wake up and do damage control at this rate

  • philluminati@kbin.social
    2·
    2 years ago

    Someone should create server that uses the Reddit API for oauth. This way people can verify their Mastadon usernames match their Reddit usersnames.

  • HundaRaketisto@pawb.socialEnglish
    2·
    2 years ago

    Reddit is killing itself before it can even go to market. They’re gonna have to push back the date of the IPO so it doesn’t fail.