It’s not like they couldn’t put a stop to blackouts before, as seen with the third-party app fiasco, but Reddit has now made that tactic entirely impossible. Mods will now need to get permission from Reddit admins before they can make a sub private. Makes me wonder if they’re about to do something controversial again soon.
Funny, me being here can be considered a protest against Reddit for the last year, and it’s still working fine.
We have a responsibility to protect Reddit and ensure its long-term health, and we cannot allow actions that deliberately cause harm.
Truly, a harm for the platform when the moderators of /r/assesgonewild take their subreddit private for a week in protest. So far up their asses.
Read: “Our users got so pissed at us that it jeopardized our IPO. Now it could actually effect something like our stock price, so fuck 'em”. Seriously people, just leave
Reddit is giving its staff a lot more power over the communities on its platform. Starting today, Reddit moderators will not be able to change if their subreddit is public or private without first submitting a request to a Reddit admin.
More power by having less power. I stopped reading here. Yeah, The Verge never disappoints.
Community mods are not the same thing as reddit staff (admin)… I mean probably sometimes they can be the same person, but not normally.
I think you might have misinterpreted that. Moderators are volunteer users, not reddit staff.
Reddit makes an anti-user change. In other news, grass is green.
I haven’t been on the site in over a year and nothing since then has convinced me to go back. Maybe I’m lucky that I’m not in any Reddit-only communities, but it could also just be that I treat those communities as though they don’t exist and never had a reason to join one as a result.
What remains as methods of protest after this? I wonder what would happen to a subreddit if it’s moderators would simply stop moderating all together…
But I guess admins could always make someone a moderator, there’s always someone willing to have a power trip.
What remains as methods of protest after this?
Deleting your account and leaving the site. Reddit clearly doesn’t care about the users, and hasn’t for a very, very long time. Remaining there justifies their actions.
I remember a couple of people on Reddit smugly saying I’d be back soon after I talked about leaving during the third party app shitshow.
I’ve never went back, so eat a bag of dicks random Reddit users!
What’s Reddit?
It’s like Lemmy, but very broken.
Reddit’s decline through enshittification has been fascinating to watch.
This new stage appears to be utterly remarkable — an aggressive and hostile approach to its userbase and volunteer mod community on which the company is entirely reliant.
I think the harm reddit did in consolidating web discussion into a single platform that fostered a horrible, reductive culture online is immeasurable but deeply regrettable.
If all Mods simply stopped moderating, Reddit would be dead next week
It won’t. Most people are not lemmy users, not aware of the issues, they just consume content. Others will take up the reigns and the place will be noticably worse for those of us who care about community. Those who care about consuming content will not.
In every community, there is always another power-hungry asshole ready to jump on the opportunity to have a tiny bit of control over somebody else.
Mods not modding is nothing new to reddit. The only impact they would feel is if users stopped posting. I don’t see that happening though.
my guess would be old.reddit disappearing.
