EDIT: GO DM MODS OF YOUR FAVORITE SUBREDDITS AND POLITELY ASK ABOUT MIGRATION!: something as simple as “Hey, I love this community but I no longer use reddit, will you guys be making a community on Kbin or other alternatives? Let me know please, thanks.” will work!! We need more voices encouraging migration!
ModCodeofConduct switching subs to SFW
POST ABOUT MODS FORCIBLY SWITCHING SUBS BACK TO SFW (teddit)
“What the users want” my ass. Reddit doesn’t give 2 shits about what the users want.
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r/interestingasfuck removed as well
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Jesus, this is escalating fast. I never actually thought admins would go to such crazy lengths. Such pathetic desperation!
I fully expected Reddit to fight dirty, but it’s still surreal watching the iron hand come down against the community. Silver lining, I hope this helps accelerate the migration to the fediverse.
I remember ten years ago sharing beers with admins who visited London. Back when there was a push for developing local communities and Global Reddit Meetup Day. There was good vibes and a feeling of mutual respect.
I met my wife through Reddit.
I still have so much affection for the site in my heart.
It’s just wild to me how much has changed.
Really glad I never got that Snoo tattoo now.
Reddit isn’t the first online community I watched outgrow itself into the grave. I guess it’s just the cycle of social media. Here’s hoping this time’s different.
Myspace, Livejournal, Facebook, Digg, Twitter, Reddit
The exact reason not to get tattoos of weird corporate shit.
Well that and paying to become a walking advertisement.
We knew that this was a possibility since day one. The mods took a stand anyways, risking it all for the community. Still a shame to see it happen.
What’s there to risk? Their unpaid labor? This is what spez doesn’t seem to realize
Well, getting locked out is no fun. But yeah, you’re right, reddit loses out more (on the unpaid labour of love).
“The protests didn’t do anything”
“Waaah, my ad reveue 😭”
Spez: ‘Reddit is a democracy!’
Also Spez:
iS tHiS hOw I bUilD gOoDwIlL wItH vOlUnTeEr MoDs?
If Reddit is taking the mantle of determining valid content and is editing and changing posts for users without their consent, doesn’t that run the risk they fall afoul of the Safe Harbor clause of DMCA?
IMO they’re getting mighty close to editorial control.
You are definitely onto something. Section 230 is what keeps Reddit alive, get rid of Section 230 protection of reddit GG.
Best course of action, file a complaint that Reddit Inc. Filed falsified documents with the Supreme Court on January 2023. They should not be able to use section 230 as a form of defense anymore, now that Reddit has constantly removed mods and interfered with subbreddits. FYI I modded the original r/EASportsFC and Reddit admins gifted to it r/fifa been looking into this for awhile, but I also eat crayons and not a laywer.
Filed January 2023 with Supreme Court
Reddit, Inc. is a community of online communities.
Reddit provides a platform for Internet users (called
“Redditors”) to connect with each other in communities (called “subreddits”) that are based on shared interests. 2 Reddit is one of the most popular sites on the Internet, with more than 50 million active users every day. But Reddit’s
approach to content moderation makes it different
from many social media companies. As explained below, Reddit relies on a bottom-up, community-based approach where individual users—not the company—take the lead.Redditors create and organize their own subreddits devoted to their specific interests. They establish their own rules governing what content is acceptable within their subreddit. And those rules are enforced by users themselves.Redditors also directly control the degree to which user-generated content items like posts, comments, and
media are visible on the platform. The display of content on Reddit is thus primarily driven by humans—not by centralized algorithms.https://www.justice.gov/archives/jm/criminal-resource-manual-902-1996-amendments-18-usc-1001
Tldr - fuck reddit.
Ooh, an interesting theory, though we’d need an actionable scenario to test it. But in theory …I think so. Moderation itself no, filtering posts or editing out words or phrases no, but editing posts in a way that changes the intent / message might run afoul of Section 230. Unclear if the courts would apply it per post or for Reddit as a whole, though.
u/spez is a Dictator
This morning’s news about the r/mildlyinteresting team being reinstated and unsuspended by a different admin - that’s confirmation that there’s internal conflict going on. Protests don’t work, my ass.
Or its a good cop bad cop act.
Good sdmin offers suggestions to mod, then mods comply due to gratitude.
That presumes there was insight and planning, neither of which reddit seems to have.
Looks like they did the same with /r/interestingasfuck
RIP Reddit lol
I sorted by new and the nsfw posts are coming in as of 1 hour ago.
Wow, I never thought I’d see the day where Reddit would remove entire mod teams.
I guess they were right when they said:The r/WatchRedditDie moderator team regrets to inform our community that we have, in fact, watched Reddit die…
Reddit died and we watched it.
The dumbfuck bootlickers who’re “yay my content coming back” are fucking cringe. I hope the new people who mod the subs are alt-right trash who will push their shitty ideology onto the subs.
Good riddance.
“The beatings will continue until morale improves”
Outrageous! We should invite the mod team here
The most mindboggling thing about all of this to me is if Reddit had just improved their own app to be up to par with the multitude of 3rd party apps out there, none of this would have been an issue. They could’ve migrated everyone over to the official app easily with just a better experience. If a single person can wrangle an app together that outperforms the official one in a month, Reddit has no excuses. Personally, I’m delighted all of this has happened, as it’s allowed for multiple viable alternatives to be populated. Which I’ve been wanting for a very very long time.
It really could have been a symbiotic relationship with the third party app devs. But Reddit went all psycho and seems to have taken the API push back personally.
Surely they can’t survive after this, right? Like, people can’t be okay with this.
I guess they’re betting on most casual users to just not notice or care enough
Exactly this, unfortunately.
It’s staggering the amount of people that are fine with things and just want it to go back to normal
Too many users on reddit love this because they hate mods and think reddit is somehow going to get rid of moderation when reddit is trying to be advertiser friendly.
People are ok with this and even if not, they’ll forget it in a few months. Remember when YouTube removed the dislike button? Or surveys? Or forced more ads onto its users?
Nobody is talking about that anymore (except maybe the ads part)
r/TIHI is also unmoderated along with r/mildlyinteresting and r/interestingasfuck. Is that new?
Also r/self.
GO DM MODS OF YOUR FAVORITE SUBREDDITS AND POLITELY ASK ABOUT MIGRATION!
Please don’t do this. I’m a moderator of a sub (won’t say which one). From a personal standpoint I’m happy to use both platforms. Vilify me if you will. But I do not want to see messages from users asking if we’re going to migrate. That’s pestering and it won’t go well if that particular subreddit isn’t into it.
How else do you suggest bringing migration to their attention? I am a mod as well, I cannot see how someone politely asking if we are thinking about making a community on a diff platform can be perceived as pestering? It appears this is individual and not every mod will be annoyed and not every mod wont be annoyed.
edit: 10 people suggesting it to mods says “this is in higher demand than we thought, not just one random person’s suggestion that we can ignore, we need to consider taking action or addressing this” Which is how changes happen. mods need to listen to their users, thats the responsibility they volunteered to take on. As a commenter said below me: “If you are getting annoyed because so many of your users want to migrate, maybe you should consider migrating instead of demonizing your users?”
If moderators/subreddits are going to migrate, they’re already going to be aware about it and probably thinking about it.
I am a mod as well, I cannot see how someone politely asking if we are thinking about making a community on a diff platform can be perceived as pestering?
Think about it from this side: users can’t see what messages the mods are getting. You’re asking people to DM moderators - politely doesn’t matter. What if 10 people see your message and act on it? Then you’ve got 10 people saying “Are you guys gonna migrate? Are you migrating? What do you think about migrating?”
It appears this is individual and not every mod will be annoyed and not every mod wont be annoyed.
Very true, but I really don’t think unsolicited messages to subreddits asking them to migrate - for YOUR benefit - is a good idea. In any case, forget about migrating. Just create the communities you want to see here, on lemmy/kbin/wherever. You don’t need to wait for moderators to do it.
If you are getting annoyed because so many of your users want to migrate, maybe you should consider migrating instead of demonizing your users?
You’re a mod. Post a sticky addressing it or use a third party tool to handle these things.
You have every right to keep your community on whatever platform but don’t shame people because they are mobilizing others and it causes you inconvenience. The issue isn’t the users, nor the people messaging you, if you want to be mad at someone it is Reddit that is causing you grief.
I didn’t wait personally, I went ahead and made @SilentHill, then I dmed the r/SilentHill mods politely letting them know about it and also offering them mod positions there, and I got a nice response and takers, now so far I have one of their mods modding my mag here. It can work.
By all means, don’t wait, the reason why I suggest DMing them is because thats how you get the most people to migrate, they have the most influence and a base of members already. I am still protesting, even if out of spite at this point since Reddit probably won’t back down, so I want the max amount of people we can get to leave their shitty platform to migrate.
IMO 10 people suggesting it says “this is in higher demand than we thought, not just one random person’s suggestion that we can ignore” Which is how changes happen.