ItsaB3AR@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
It’s a shame how poorly that protest was planned. It should have been indefinite from the start, not 2 days, and moderators should have held out longer, instead of folding when Reddit said they would lose their power.
southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Yeah.
The only decent sized sub I moderated went private and mostly stayed that way (there was a brief restricted phase). It ended up where reddit booted the whole mod list (I was the only active one) last week.
The piecemeal way it happened allowed reddit to take their time taking subs over, which spread out reporting on the issue until that faded away and they knew they were going to be able to just wait it out.
The result was that reddit could still fuck things up, but delay the consequences of that for months. The lack of actual human users making good posts and comments combined with the shitty moderation that’s now in place has been coming on gradually enough that it isn’t as noticeable from the outside; you’d have to be a long term reddit user to detect that change ad it happened.