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- ghazi@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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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.
- 𝙻𝚘𝚗𝚐𝙼𝚊𝚌𝚃𝚘𝚙𝚙𝚎𝚍𝚄𝚙 ( @Longmactoppedup@aussie.zone ) 3•17 minutes ago
my guess would be old.reddit disappearing.
- AutomaticUpdates ( @AutomaticUpdates@monero.town ) English2•7 minutes ago
If all Mods simply stopped moderating, Reddit would be dead next week
- TehPers ( @TehPers@beehaw.org ) English13•2 hours ago
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.
- thingsiplay ( @thingsiplay@beehaw.org ) 5•1 hour ago
In other news, grass is green.
I didn’t saw this news. My news only tell me that the rice bag fall over. It happens over and over again. Predictable, like Reddit.
- tias ( @tias@discuss.tchncs.de ) English4•59 minutes ago
You know what? I don’t care and I stopped reading this article after one paragraph because I found that I couldn’t be bothered to go on. During the reddit exodus I was pissed off about how they would ruin something good, but I’ve long since lost interest in what happens on that site. Honestly I was a tiny bit surprised that it still exists. Like who the heck goes there still?
- rhys ( @rhys@lemmy.rhys.wtf ) English10•2 hours ago
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.
- Scrubbles ( @scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech ) English20•2 hours ago
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
- thingsiplay ( @thingsiplay@beehaw.org ) 1•36 minutes ago
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.Edit: My bad. The Verge was correct this time. Guess if I read the article then I would understand.- duramu ( @duramu@beehaw.org ) 8•53 minutes ago
Community mods are not the same thing as reddit staff (admin)… I mean probably sometimes they can be the same person, but not normally.
- thingsiplay ( @thingsiplay@beehaw.org ) 2•39 minutes ago
I see. Well then my bad for misunderstanding this. To me moderators are Reddit staff working for free. But I see that the word “staff” was used literally.
See you in the oblivion. xD
- rhys ( @rhys@lemmy.rhys.wtf ) English3•50 minutes ago
I think you might have misinterpreted that. Moderators are volunteer users, not reddit staff.
- ravhall ( @ravhall@discuss.online ) 17•3 hours ago
What’s Reddit?
- JoYo ( @JoYo@lemmy.ml ) English4•1 hour ago
Sounds like Digg
- TachyonTele ( @TachyonTele@lemm.ee ) 10•3 hours ago
I think it was part of Twitter.
- ravhall ( @ravhall@discuss.online ) 6•3 hours ago
Is that for bird watching?
- Annoyed_🦀 ( @Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc ) 5•2 hours ago
Specifically watching bird mating.
- CaptObvious ( @CaptObvious@literature.cafe ) 8•3 hours ago
Sounds like Spaz is about to have another Numbnuts Moment.