2y ago

📢Entire mod team on r/mildlyinteresting removed and locked out of their accounts after changing their rules upon community's request. (They're also switching subs BACK to SFW)

📢Entire mod team on r/mildlyinteresting (and more subs) removed and locked out of their accounts after changing their rules upon community's request. (They're also switching subs BACK to SFW) - RedditMigration - kbin.social

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2y ago

Cały zespół moderatorów na r/mildlyinteresting został usunięty i zablokowano im konta po przełączeniu suba na NSFW

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All I have to say about this is that this was a blessing in disguise for me. I’ve never heard of the fediverse until this Reddit fiasco happened. I’m having a lot better time here being part of something new and it feels good to start fresh.
- Same here, but I miss some niche subs.
  
  Like Pokemon just got to catch them all. 🙂
- Same. I've been diving into Linux and open source and self hosting lately anyway, and at the same time you're telling me open source social media is a real thing and gaining in popularity? Count me in.
Steve Huffman is pissing all over Aaron Swartz's grave, and completely abandoning the ideals that was once a foundation of Reddit. Reddit was originally open source, Aaron died in 2013, and by 2017, Reddit had abandoned the open source / community philosophy entirely.
Never forget Aaron Swartz.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz
Edited for correct spelling of Aaron Swartz.
- For real. I never heard of Lemmy until this happened.
Spez must leave. Meanwhile, the ones leaving are the ones that create the content that gives them visits and money. Very good decisions, yes. What a shame, Aaron Swartz would be shocked and furious, no doubt!
- The dead can't say one way or another how they would have felt, and using them as a voiceless weapon is pretty shitty.
  What Spez is doing is bad enough on it's own. There's no need at all to disrespect the dead like that just to shore up your righteousness.
Yeah, they're gonna keep ruining Reddit while we steadily migrate here. We're just being a pain in the ass on our way out.
- Back when there was exodus from digg people started posting links to stories on reddit to digg. I think the same should be done right now.
  
  Make sure you're willing to abruptly lose your Reddit account if you do. Reddit admins are being pretty cunthroat about this all.
They cannot remove a post's NSFW tag if it has NSFW in the title.
At least they took a stand. Thousands of other subs who got the same ultimatums just gave in no questions asked, no malicious compliance.
I'd say that's a little more than just "mildly" infuriating.
But reddit had made its bed.
Reddit is picking a fight with the internet…
When you think about the situation, it's really just Reddit cracking down on unions… Of unpaid workers… Who are defending customers' interests… Which in turn support them… And all of this while pretending that they crack down on unions for the benefit of customers. That's a really shitty move Reddit is pulling out right there.
- yeah, but we are not the customer. we are the product.
They should migrate to lemmy.
- Just did.
  What a fucking circus that reddit has become in just the last couple of weeks.
  
  I was still popping last week, but its all but slowed to a trickle at this point. Reddit fucking sucks today, and I say that as a 12 year user who thought it sucked 3 years ago.
As much as I should be happy to see power mods like iBleeedOrange and AwkwardTheTurtle get served a taste of their own medicine, it pisses me off that this is the hill that Spez chose to kill them on.
Unfortunately Spez will have to do so much worse to truly kill off the site.
Well that went just as I expected it to. The admins are still the admins. They're the top of the power totem and that's that.
Honestly this protest's only purpose shouldve be to raise awareness of alternatives and tell people "were leaving Reddit, and this is where we're going" while we still can. Because Reddit is private property, and therefore will always be subject to the whims of its admins - regardless of how people believe it should be run of if people think it should tolerate protesting against the platform on the platform.
Everyone should've been aware that this protest could only have been temporary.
Sure we reminded them of the power we possess, but they've essentially reminded us that they possess more, and can remove that power regardless of how the community feels. Admins are and have always been at the top.
- No one had any illusions about how this was going to go. The point was making them do it. The point was forcing Reddit into a PR nightmare just before their big IPO. The point was giving this platform traction. The fact that this post exists on this platform is proof that the mods succeeded. Sure, Reddit is still huge.. but with entire mod teams being replaced with Spez bootlickers it remains to be seen whether they can maintain what they have, or if this is Digg all over again.
  It's hard to predict what will happen, but I'm here, and you're here, so something is happening.
  
  I don't think reddit will die, but they definitely hurt themselves. The fediverse grew by leaps and bounds over the past week, reddit drove so much traffic to their potential competitors. Then when the 3rd party apps die, they'll lose some more.
  Reddit is gambling on gaining enough revenue from pushing people on 3rd party apps to 1st party that it makes up for the loss of users overall.
  People on reddit say "Why do we care about 3rd party apps, it's such a small section of the userbase" But apparently reddit cares enough about that small section of the userbase that they need to push them to their own app.
All of this protesting bs will never work
The only way to make any difference would be to delete your Reddit account and leave the platform
- Have you not been paying attention to what's been going on? The protests have done serious damage to Reddit's reputation, the viability of its IPO, and is causing a significant drop in the number of users. Not to mention the loss of content creators and moderators who are necessary for the site to function. The protests are intentionally making the site unusable to bore and drive out those who are reasonable, and leaving only those who shill for and lick the boots of Spez and the rest of the incompetent administration team. And without content to consume, those people will leave as well.
- does leaving the platform not constitute a kind of protest?
And nothing of value was lost.
Reddit is North Korea now... :I

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