This is a feature people have been asking for since the beginning and is only being talked about or introduced because it’s politically convenient for the admins.
I really hope this backfires and is only a means to an end of the users replacing scabs until the site grinds to a halt.
"We want to give users a say in the moderation of their subs."
<users continue the protests>
"Not like that!"
Exactly! And they cynically finally started working on moderation tools AFTER the protest (apparently the built-in mod tools had been garbage for years...)
Cool, so now the alt-right nutbags who control r/canada can take over all the other Canadian subreddits and promote far right propaganda and hatred in all the local subs too?
I projected that same fuckin thing too. That's what happens for every platform; when the decent, good-faith followers get ran off, the scumbags inherit and just ferment the environment into a cesspool. I'm sure Spez is gonna be pleased with his soon-to-be new userbase full of center/far-rights, apathetic loyalists and equally money-grubbing dipshits.
Yes. This is what will happen. The far right will capture large numbers of moderately sized mainstream subs, they'll think they're crafting narratives like traditional media does as they alienate larger and larger groups of users, and then the whole damn thing will collapse into the ever widening cesspit.
I've been trying to get a kbin instance set up for Atlantic Canada, but I've been extremely time constrained the last two weeks. We'll see how next week goes...
A former T_D mod messaged /r/aww announcing that he intended to take over their community. Can you imagine what would happen if these bigots got their hands on 10m+ subs? Spez is just empowering the most out of touch, angry dissenters to take control of some of the most high profile communities. It won't go well for him.
Could larger subreddits use this to take over and delete smaller subreddits by voting in new mods who shut it down?
Yep. This feels like a potentially bad idea for exactly this reason
Sounds like a great way to get rid of "problematic" subreddits.
Or make them more responsive to users.
100% smaller subreddits will be a shit show.
Who says the elections are going to be fair? From what I know about Spez they aren't going to be.
Oh, what's this? Our new hire just got 500k votes in just 5 minutes. What a popular person, they will be a great mod.
Bold of you to assume that Reddit would want to spend money on moderator hires. They'd just recruit some fake-power-hungry bootlicker who will follow, for free, the admins' instructions.
yup it's all so f*ing transparant it's just pathetic. anyone with half a brain should see right through that cunt Hoffman
Somehow I just don't think I'd trust that voting system....
Are you suggesting that it could get corrupted, so as to favor a person or group of persons? But they'd still have their content, and isn't that what really matters there?
Man, it's an absolute shitshow over there. The only thing holding people there, much like Twitter, is their addiction. I admit I miss it, but continuing to use these services sets such a bad precedent. I wish there were some better way to show people how much better the Fediverse is and how it keeps asshats like Huffman and Musk from making shit decisions for everyone else.
couldn't have said it better myself. fuck that dispicable cunt Huffman. haven't peeked at reddit since the start of the blackouts and hope I'm strong enough to stay away
I went to Reddit today for the first time this week, and it just feels hostile. Even more hostile than before. There are all these people seemingly excited that the 3rd party apps are going away, and people mad that some subs are gone without taking a few moments to understand why.
Normally Reddit is just a pile of people arguing at each other, and now it feels like a pile of people angrily yelling at each other. Who wants to really hang out in that environment?
I also noticed that the site has become more and more negative and sour over the years.
Yeah, the only places I've really enjoyed engaging in comment threads are the smaller subreddits. Big ones are frustrating and tiresome at best, actively abrasive at worst.
Perhaps the massive fragmentation that we're starting to see in the Fediverse could be a blessing in disguise, keeping instances from becoming "too big."
That's Huffman, though, he's getting more negative and sour with every interview. over the last two weeks. The one with the The Verge is revealing of a bitter and reflexively defensive mindset. He's ready to sell all that data to train AI/Skynet and grab his golden parachute. No one's getting in his way, not even own marketing VP on the Verge phone call.
Yeah. I have previously said that my personal redline is the removal of old.reddit, but it seems like they're actively probing around to find other redlines I hadn't even considered.
For many, many years people have been wanting some way to deal with "abusive" or "rogue" mods. Guess all it took was for the "abusiveness" to be aimed at the Reddit admins rather than the plebian users.
Which is why I sat for hours this morning, manually deleting all the posts in my subreddit. He is welcome to now hand it to someone else...
There have been reports that reddit is restoring deleted content. Some are saying it may be a GDPR violation if you're requesting reddit to delete your data.
There used to be a GreaseMonkey script that will automate this.
Redact - https://redact.dev/ allows you to automatically delete your posts etc.
I've seen reports here from this morning where people are saying that they're even restoring comments deleted with Redact.
From a technical standpoint, adding a database table that is a comment revision history is trivial and barely requires any alternation of existing code. Even reddit could do it.
I've always suspected that they did it a long time ago in response to redact.
Be careful, People have seen their post deletions being undone. Some posts that were restored were deleted as much as a decade ago. It appears to be manually chosen subreddits getting restored, but it's something to keep an eye out for.
I used Redact.dev. And I'm currently running it a second time since it looks like posts in private subreddits that have since re-opened get reverted (presumably the edit doesn't go through correctly?).
I used this to change all my posts to "fuck /u/spez". Let's see how long it takes before i'm banned.
Unfortunately, they can undo that in seconds.
And if those users allow the sub to stay closed? He's going to reopen them by force anyway. This is posturing.
Corporate gonna corpo, just how it is. I'm all for continuing the fight though! They don't care about the health of reddit, just if it makes it past the IPO so they can cash out and run.
Oh, wow, talk about mask-off enshittification of the internet! If I were anyone in the fediverse, be it kbin, lemmy, masto, or whathaveyou, I'd very seriously start talking about what kinds of monetization we ourselves can establish so we can avoid the shitstorm that's going on on the big SMNs.
IF (and that's a big if) we can monetize ourselves, we very well could be able to stop investors and shareholders from enshittifying what we are now able to use. Otherwise, we are just running on a treadmill of platforms that start off with great ability and promise, but who's ultimate goal is to be enshittified.
You don't need to monetize too hard with fediverse. Anyone can self host an instance, no venture capital loans needed.
Ok. Vote out the moderators and then what? Obviously the community can't go unmoderated, so where does the power go?
There's only two ways this goes:
I predict a lot of brigading to take over smaller subs by bad actors.
I am sure they will find a lot of "users" who will vote... and then they can claim it was a fair game, haha. I am really enjoying this from afar. Not a day passes until another hilarious "press statement" from that spez. I really loved Reddit for what it was with all the smaller niche communities. These are the ones I miss here, but I hope growth continues and good people come over to populate the fediverse and bring over their unique ideas and discussions.
Not a day passes until another hilarious "press statement" from that spez
It really is something new every day, isn't it? And it's begun to be entertaining to watch the collapse
To quote a reddit admin's (kn0thing) -11k downvoted comment from an infamous incident 8 years ago:
Popcorn tastes good.
Too late lol
Can we vote out u/spez ?
Good luck on finding new ones!
If only this was an option since forever.
Power hungry mods who want their own fiefdom to rule over are nasty.
No way that's going to backfire.
I'll be he thinks if ppl have to login to try and keep the blackout going it's a win win. I'm so glad he helped so many of us leave. I probably deleted reddit twice a year bc of how toxic it was for me mentally.
This is just an absolutely fucking dismal idea.
I can't think of a more surefire way to ruin the site than make it so that the mob can tear down anyone who sets a quality bar any higher than they like.
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