Reddit will remove mods of private communities unless they reopen
www.theverge.com
The removals will happen by “end of week.”

Reddit has informed moderators of communities that are still private in protest that they will lose their mod status by the end of the week. Thousands of communities went dark earlier this month to push back on the company’s planned API pricing changes.

  • kadu@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    So they will reopen with the “malicious compliance” pictures of John Oliver or badly worded rules.

    A week later Reddit will remove them anyway, because this is not a court or the fourth law of thermodynamics - Reddit can and will change any rules to keep the website running.

    So the conclusion is: don’t even bother. If you care about the community, use your last few days as mod to immediately migrate to Lemmy. If you care about the title of mod… Well, good luck on this cursed website.

    • c2h6@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      All the news about reddit over the last few days have made me realise that I no longer personally care.

      I mean it’s still funny to read about the way subs are protesting, but I haven’t been on the site since the protests, and now I don’t get angry about the changes anymore. It’s a sign that I’ve finally kicked reddit out of my life after more than a decade on the platform.

      • SirQuackTheDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        1 year ago

        I was leaving the site for a while, but the muscle memory to Sync was waay too strong.

        Now I’m running Redact every day since Reddit keeps restoring old comments (at least some subs do).

        I’ll build my new little corner here, and I’ll stick to it.

        • c2h6@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          1 year ago

          I personally just sorted my comments by top scoring and manually changed some of my top comments to random gibberish! That doesn’t get restored!