Notice that they circumvented democratic decision-making between moderation teams to force subreddits open. 1/10 mods wants it open = open. Why would they not do the same here with users, whom they respect even less?

I suspect they will do one or more of the following:

• selectively honor results based on when the users of subreddits opt to open them.
• never open voting in subreddits where mods choose to open the subreddit
• set voting window to align more closely with timezones with demographics that will favor opening.
• use their powers from hosting the platform to fuck with results (i.e. voting only working from new reddit or official app, shadowbans, fucking with login/voting of anyone who has posted the word "lemmy", etc.)
• All of the above.

This should be a lesson on how corporations embrace democracy within a system that they ultimately control to let people believe they have some form of self-determination.

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