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- tech@pawb.social
Some of the planned blackouts will be temporary, others plan to shut their subreddits down indefinitely in protest.
Some of the planned blackouts will be temporary, others plan to shut their subreddits down indefinitely in protest.
I don’t think it’s been clearly voiced enough, but there are thousands of sub moderation bots that do things like automatically flag hate speech for mod review that will all just stop working. Some of the larger, older subs have entire ecosystems of content tagging and linking that will break. An example is putting the name of a tv show in braces [TNGS01E13] and getting a link to that episode’s wiki as a comment reply. It dramatically improves the Reddit experience, but isn’t worth the outrageous cost to keep going.
Overnight, Reddit would turn into a (more) poorly moderated nightmare.
Sounds like this move will make Reddit worse in every way possible, which is a pretty impressive feat IMO.
If all of this comes true, Reddit would earn the ”most hostile move towards your users in hopes of an easy cash grab” -award of the year.
@Hamartiogonic @CaptainCarrot I’ve got my fingers crossed that Lemmy will take off, assuming Reddit doesn’t change their stance.
Why would they. Wasn’t this supposed to be the greatest business move in the history of big business.
BTW did the previous protests make a difference?