hey everyone. if you want to post links or discuss the Reddit blackout today, please localize it to this thread in order to keep things tidy! Thanks!

  • Valen@beehaw.orgEnglish
    31·
    2 years ago

    I’ve heard about Reddit removing a mod from a popular subreddit, then turning the subreddit public (sorry, don’t have the reference). They can always stop the blackout by force. But once they do that, those mods will have definite incentive to start the communities in the fediverse.

      • ChemicalRascal@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        2 years ago

        That seemed to be a situation where the head mod was going against the wishes of the other mods. Not sure how I feel about it, personally, but it’s not quite as simple as “Spez made the subreddit open against the wishes of everyone involved”.

      • Hot SaucermanEnglish
        1·
        2 years ago

        People are claiming this is disinformation, but it’s not. They’re saying “its been a rule at reddit since they did it with /r/kotakuinaction to remove a top mod if they do something the community doesn’t like.”

        Ah yes, when the top mod of /r/kotakuinaction finally had a change of heart and realized pushing division, hate, and misogyny might be a bad thing and shut down the sub. Then reddit re-opened the vile hub of scum and villainy, because we really needed them on reddit apparently, because they got good engagement. Nevermind how much brigading they did, how much hateful rhetoric they spewed, and how much they shat up the site with their garbage.

        It was bullshit when it happened back then because the site would have been better without /r/kotakuinaction and its fucking crazed gamer shitheads. It’s bullshit now that they’re using it to break the strike.

        On top of all the astroturfing so there is no way to know how many users in each sub actually want the protest to continue, because reddit is hammering each thread with pro-reddit, anti-protest comments from “totally real users.”

    • nyander@beehaw.orgEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      It was done because the head mod (who barely contributed anything) showed up out of the blue and decided to enroll the sub into the protest. The rest of the mod team was not in agreement with it.