UPDATE: In less than 24 hours, /r/iPhone will be going private indefinitely.
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***Update to our post from a couple hours ago announcing our immediate shut down of posting.*** Hi everyone, We apologise for the back and forth...

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Originally, the protest was planned to be 48 hours. However, after a shambolic AMA held by Reddit’s CEO, it has become clear to us that Reddit doesn’t intend to act in good faith. When the CEO is willing to lie and spread libellous claims about another third-party developer, and then try double down by vilifying them, again, in an AMA, despite being proven as a liar by the developer through audio recordings, that’s when we knew what we were up against. Therefore, the subreddit will be privatised until such time as a reasonable resolution is proposed.

  • other_worldEnglish
    31·
    2 years ago

    I have a feeling all of the default subs will be taken over pretty quickly. The small subs will be forgotten about.

    • PunsNRosesEnglish
      27·
      2 years ago

      I don’t think the subs should go private, but rather they should just get straight-up abandoned. The admins will have a much harder time dealing with all the unmoderated content that will inevitably show up, and it will look way worse to advertisers.

      • probodyne@feddit.ukEnglish
        11·
        2 years ago

        I think anarchychess is planning exactly that. They’re private today (Sunday) and going unmoderated on Monday.

        • DestroyMegacorpsEnglish
          2·
          2 years ago

          The chaos that’s gonna ahppen is gonna be on the same level as Y2K and the miiverse last 30 minutes

      • CatsrulesEnglish
        9·
        2 years ago

        That just give Reddit an out for taking over subs, saying they are unmoderated.

        If they go private then Reddit would need to forcibly take over the subs without a proper reason for doing it.

      • rlheEnglish
        4·
        2 years ago

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      • kroldenEnglish
        4·
        2 years ago

        theres even more precedent of them taking over unmoderated subs

    • Nankeru@feddit.deOPEnglish
      141·
      2 years ago

      That’s what I expect to happen as well. Nothing stops them from kicking out the current mods / admins, replacing them with new mods willing to take over and continue as before (or even use AI moderation tools to minimize the efforts).

      • SkyNTPEnglish
        20·
        2 years ago

        Who though? Who wants to mod a community that big, for a company that will throw mods under the bus, for a company that is burning bridges with developers instead of finding reasonable compensation, for a company that that is so bad at supporting mods mods have to rely on third parties to support (which they are also burning bridges with), for a company that is “not profitable”, for a company that is laying people off, not hiring.

        AI moderation? No way they will “meet increasing regulatory compliance” with that.

        What a fucking shitshow. There are just no words for how big of a hole Reddit has dug itself.