- cross-posted to:
- RedditMigration@kbin.social
- technews@radiation.party
From the article:
In response to Huffman’s comments, moderators are trying to find ways to make blackouts effective. Alternatively, some communities are also setting up servers on alternative sites like Lemmy and Kbin.
They didn’t really give good context to the situation. They really should be talking about how these changes are going to be affecting reddit’s sources of information. That the fee’s they want to charge are ridiculously high for any developer (essentially pricing out any but the rich). How all content is user generated, maintained and controlled and yet reddit feels they are the owners of it. If they want to make these changes then they need to be taking a serious look at the solutions the community are coming up with.
Don’t ever expect for-profit media to highlight how profit motivations affect the availability of different types of information.
Yeah. Protest and discourse on reddit about these changes and their impact on the site and its communities has been unfortunately domineered and nearly hijacked by the mods leading the protests. That has meant the average user has a hard time understanding how their experience will be affected - and made it incredibly easy for Reddit Inc to spin the conflict as “between Admin and Moderation, with users being caught in the crossfire” - instead of being about the changes and consequences of cutting API access to all users’ experience on the site.
Admin over there has weaponized the userbase’ underlying distrust for mods against the protest as a whole, and a large number of mods have fed that perception by acting unilaterally with regards to protest actions.
Mods give Reddit plausible deniability with its users regarding unpopular policies. However, admins have allowed mods to camp as a way to maintain loyalty. Mod governance at Reddit is a joke because the admins let it be a joke.