• Slynk@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    It’s pretty obvious that reddit needs these communities. But these communities don’t need Reddit, clearly.

  • C-c-c-ComboBreaker17@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    Fuck em. God its nice to be able to say “fuck em” without having to worry about elon or spez getting butthurt and banning my account.

  • Phoephus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    Dear person volunteering your time and effort for what you thought was a worthy endeavor. We’re trying to commodify your work so we can make a killing so don’t fuck it up for us.

    • atzanteol@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Dear Spez,

      I’ve learned that Reddit wants to profit from my content. I’ve therefore decided to monetize my content going forward. I have very reasonable rates of $50 USD per post. $75 USD for long posts.

      I’m willing to discuss this with Reddit but these rates are nonnegotiable.

    • TWeaK@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      It’s not even true though. Subreddits belong to the user who creates it, they become the top mod and delegate to other mods. If users don’t like how a subreddit is moderated, they are free to make their own subreddit - they aren’t supposed to take over someone else’s subreddit.

  • Moonrise2473@feddit.itEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    “we respect the protests, but we will remove everyone that will protest”

    the part “decide that don’t want to be a mod anymore” is so infuriating and unrespectful. Like they don’t know what’s goin on…

  • Willard Herman@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    I just deleted three of my reddit accounts. I am done. As an artist, I have more work to do on my primary current account. I feel I should delete my art from reddit so that they can not make money from my art and music.

  • RIotingPacifist@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Subreddits belong to the community of users…

    So you’re providing tools to allow democratic control of subreddits, right?

    Right?

      • NoIWontPickaName@kbin.social
        1·
        1 year ago

        Roses are red, violets are blue, sugar is sweet and so are you.

        But the roses are wilting, the violets are dead, the sugar bowl’s empty, just like spez’s head

  • jon@kbin.social
    1·
    1 year ago

    Honestly, mods should just force the issue and make Reddit replace them. It’s going to be a big problem if Reddit needs to find new moderators for hundreds if not thousands of subreddits. And that’s assuming all the new moderators will play along and not immediately join the protest, go on a tyrannical power trip, or just go dark after a few weeks.

    Why would anyone even want to be a mod right now? It’s like your boss threatening to fire you from a job you’re not paid for while the building is actively on fire.

    • 0110010001100010@kbin.social
      1·
      1 year ago

      Mod of /r/homeimprovement here, that’s exactly what we are doing. We are staying dark and forcing them to replace us if that’s what they want to do at this point. We are at least going to make them work for it, lol.

        • Tight-laced@kbin.social
          1·
          1 year ago

          Replaced by whom?

          I get that some people will step up into being Mods, but modding is hard and thankless work - I’ve done it a few times over the years.

          There’s always subs crying out for new Mods, so you’ll end up scraping the barrel for Mods, then the quality will go down, people will get pissed off. With thousands of Subs suddenly needing modding, there’s simply not enough volunteers to go around.

          One of Reddits unsung resources was its army of Mods keeping the content of some quality (define that as you will). Reddit really is cutting its nose off right now.

          • Addv4@kbin.social
            0·
            1 year ago

            Out of curiosity, how likely do you expect those reddit mods to move to lemmy? I see a bunch of retiring mods posts, but not many that have said they were moving here.

            • Kichae@kbin.social
              1·
              1 year ago

              There will be lag, sometimes significant lag, in moving I think. Remember, the protests were about trying to save Reddit, and, failing that, making it as obvious as possible that Reddit’s about to shoot itself in the groin. People who have invested a decade or more building and running stable and growing communities kind of have to grieve the loss of the fruit of their labours.

              I do think you’ll see many of them show up here relatively soon, as users. But the prospect of rebuilding from near scratch will probably take a little more time for people to wrestle with.