• Steve@lemmy.worldEnglish
      311·
      2 years ago

      They don’t need to take over all of them. A dozen or two of the largest subs would be plenty. Those with less than a couple hundred thousand subscribers, don’t really matter much.

      • samick1@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        251·
        2 years ago

        A dozen or two of the largest subs would be plenty.

        Those subs required a huge effort to moderate before, but it’s going to be 10x worse now that every submission is going to be AI generated pictures of spez doing things to goats or something.

      • lynny@lemmy.worldEnglish
        16·
        2 years ago

        Even trying to take over the biggest subs would be Herculean, especially considering they just laid off 5% of their staff.

        • tauonite@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
          8·
          2 years ago

          As is suggested in the original post on Reddit, they could delegate moderation to the moderators opposing the blackout, as seems to have happened with r/AdviceAnimals. I feel like that’s something they very well could do.

          • LUHG@lemmy.worldEnglish
            10·
            2 years ago

            Bet you they are going to use AI for the modding system. I swear this is their plan.

              • LUHG@lemmy.worldEnglish
                6·
                2 years ago

                Ohh no, I forgot about that. Imagine visiting Reddit in a few years when the majority have left and all is left are the bots, AI and Gallowboob. Hell.

    • SpellCastingRepellerEnglish
      36·
      2 years ago

      It’s literally embarrassing that Reddit is doing this, Reddit doing dumb API changes, Spez falsely accusing the owner of apollo of blackmail, and now they’re unprivating subreddits.

      • NythosEnglish
        17·
        2 years ago

        Falsely accusing him of blackmailing and then doubling down on it in the AMA and then also ignoring Christian when he asked for proof and gave Spez full permission to show him where in any chat logs they had

        • KachajalEnglish
          8·
          2 years ago

          That was the final straw for me. I don’t much care about Apollo, but the behavior spez displayed there sends a clear message.

          He will lie, cheat, and do whatever the hell he needs to, so long as it results in profit, or he believes that it does.

          There’s genuine intention to cause harm, there. And since that’s the approach reddit takes to the literal foundation of their community? Fuck 'em.

  • LostCauseEnglish
    37·
    2 years ago

    Of course they are. That is why I am here, Reddit in my eyes is done for either way and once it is on the stock market, it’ll only get worse.

    • KachajalEnglish
      11·
      2 years ago

      Yep. Spez and the reddit admins have gone full mask-off, realpolitik, “do what we say or get the fuck out”.

      The platform still functions, for now, but this is genuinely the beginning of the end as far as I can tell.

      • MaturionEnglish
        2·
        2 years ago

        I genuinely hope so. Hopefully this serves as a great example of why you should not offer your free work to a centralized company.

      • LostCauseEnglish
        8·
        2 years ago

        Good point, reminds me of other attempts to break strikes, you can shoot people dead, but you can‘t shoot them to work. Well, you can attempt the threat of it and maybe some will half-assed pretend to work and others will turn to sabotage, so more accurate would be you can‘t force them to do good work. Even more so for volunteers.

  • empireOfLove@lemmy.oneEnglish
    361·
    2 years ago

    We all knew this was exactly what they would do. They don’t give a shit about any form of community, they just need enough generic content flowing to keep the lurkers happy enough to keep loading advertisements.

  • LUHG@lemmy.worldEnglish
    35·
    2 years ago

    I say as soon as the subs go live we all just spam Lemmy links to the new pages.

    They can’t ban us all. The mods probably won’t care and the ones savvy enough will make it out.

    We need the small wins first.

    • ultraEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      That will increase the traffic and comments on Reddit, and improve the numbers on their IPO.

  • TheImpressiveXEnglish
    19·
    2 years ago

    Dang, they’re getting really desperate. Gotta get that sweet ad revenue.

  • tox_solid@lemmy.worldEnglish
    201·
    2 years ago

    It’s not a good look. Every story I hear about the state of reddit currently is just another log on the funeral pyre of my reddit account. Good fucking riddance, spez and company.

  • dan@lemm.eeEnglish
    14·
    2 years ago

    Ooh wow. Mod sold out their subreddit.

    Edit: found the thread. Bit of disagreement about what happened. Url for that link is here

    • gylotipEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      I want the Reddit link since the post is deleted.

  • flexcyEnglish
    111·
    2 years ago

    Humans will do anything and everything just to get cash /s