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Yeah, this seems very unlikely to go anywhere other than in gaining media attention (which is a fair aim to have at this point).
I don’t think the point to to actually get paid. I think the idea is, as you said, media attention, as well as investor attention. Who’s going to want to invest in a company that’s trying to unionize?
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did you really?
maybe they should start a lemmy community to talk about it… like !workreform@lemmy.world
They should sue reddit for violating GDPR too (if anyone that deleted posts/comments on their profile and reddit restored them is European)
Good luck to them. I dislike Reddit as much as the next guy, but this whole thing doesn’t stand a chance. You do volunteer work nobody even asked you to do and then demand money? How does that make any sense at all?
About as much sense as building a company off free volunteer labor and then acting like you own those volunteers and the money they helped you earn
It doesn’t take a ton of effort to make a website and an app, Lemmy is already hockey-sticking off entirely volunteer everything.
They are probably not gonna get backpay, but what this could achieve is to force reddit’s hand in legally recognizing mod’s work from that point on and giving the mods more standing than they have now.
At the very worst, it sends a message and helps to continue bringing to light reddit’s shitty practices.
Seems like a rather large shitpost, but I encourage them to cause chaos by any means necessary (feasibility be damned).
Out of principle I support this, but I very much doubt it will ever succeed.
I don’t think they actually think they’ll get backpaid, it’s more the principle of the thing. You’re saying Reddit isn’t earning the money it should, how about all the free work mods have done over the years to make Reddit into anything worth monetising?
Won’t work. It’s a volunteer, unpaid position. They have no legs to stand on in this case. The only real course of action they have is just not giving Reddit their service at all. Stop going there, stop giving them clicks and traffic.
the moment reddit starting threatening to fire them and take over THEIR communities, ut became a job.
I replied to this type of comment in another thread. Reddit is governed by California law. There may be something here, since reddit was benefiting off of free labor. Volunteering might not actually matter, since moderators were putting in actual hours for the benefit of reddit, while not receiving anything back. Without mods, reddit wouldn’t have the power to moderate all the subs, thus, reddit relied on mods to do unpaid company work which would have cost reddit millions per year if they were to pay moderators. I think there’s a thin case here.
The real power would be in the union anyway. If they could gather the majority of mods and they actually went through with a strike, it would be a huge test for Reddit. They would have to bring in a ton of scabs or cave to the mods. Scabs may work in the king run, but it would also destroy every community they did it to.
So the real question is whether these mods will actually act as a union or will it’s members buckle in fear of being replaced.
I would guess that, since their livelihoods aren’t on the line, mods would be far less likely to buckle than typical workers - if they can get organized in the first place.
This probably won’t get very far but no harm trying and if it actually does work there is a ton to be gained
Being that the message that Spez was trying to give off at times was that developers weren’t paying their fair share, I think this gives the a great example of how Reddit essentially doesn’t pay their fair share. They aren’t creating the content, and they aren’t paying the mods to “manage” the content.
Its crazy how this was just allowed to continue for almost 20 years with nothing happening reddit trying to ipo and indirectly creating lemmy is really the best outcome possible
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I couldn’t even continue reading pasted the first comment. Ridiculous
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If trump can run and win on sowing chaos, why not use that tactic and see how far it can go. I say go for it.
Excellent. Organising at grassroots will allow us to SMASH the rotten edifice of reddit!!
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TBH, I think Spez did most of that himself. Reddit users just don’t like what he said and how he said it. Too much disrespect and too many blatant lies. Why would I want to hang around a community like that?
Fuckin lol
I have mixed feelings about this. I’d fire many of the bullies.
