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How long before reddit replaces the mods and reopens it? I give it a day or two after the 48 hour blackout
Lemmy is gonna be rough for a few days at least but after the growing pains we’re going to have an even greater community
Good god I knew it wasn't going to go well but I didn't think they'd crash and burn it THIS bad.
The bar was on the floor and they still managed to somehow clip underneath it through the floor, end up in some backrooms-esque dimension only to trip on a banana peel and land face first in a pie.
I’m honestly super surprised by this. I assumed the mods of the big subreddits were in kahoots with the admins or were Reddit loyalists or something
Wow even if admins take over that subreddit, such a big subreddit will surely create a snowball of many more subreddits doing it.
I don't see reddit ever recovering from this (They'll not die, but things won't be the same)
I still think the admin team will forcefully takeover and reopen the big subs, but I think that'll be like pouring gasoline on that dumpster fire.
I’m pretty sure that’s what’s going to happen too.
They’ll kick dissident mods out, install their own, and just reopen the subs like nothing happened. There’s precedent of that happening I believe (although for much more reasonable reasons, like mods going rogue for stupid or anti-free speech stuff).
And it’s going to be an absolute shitshow. I feel sad, but I also kind of love it. You reap what you sow, I guess.
Yeah the only reason I still go to Reddit is to watch the chaos. Great entertainment
Someone on the fediverse (might be here?) asked "Do you want Lemmy to succeed or do you just want reddit to burn?"
I've landed on "both, for independant reasons." Its been high time reddit's corporate greed gets checked, and what a better way to go than an icarus flight?
Pretty much!
I can confidently say both, as I've started my own instance of lemmy and have allowed a small amount of users to join.
If they force a reopen, we should all get ready to post Never Gonna Give You Up music videos all day long.
The last paragraph, I feel exactly the same. I miss reddit, but I don't think there's going back after this. It has to go.
They can't force free moderations with their staff. This may be the end of Reddit.
Wow! I didn't expect something like this from such a big subreddit. I expect the admins will just take it over though.
Depending on how many other subreddits do this, they won't be able to run all of them on their own.
Admins may take it over, but a big default sub like that has a big moderation team, and they are all volunteers. I expect the admins won't be able to find suitable replacements to match the level of free labour they've been getting
Gonna be a spam fest there for a while if they replace the present mods to open the sub forcibly.
Good on them; destroying third-party apps is absolutely disgraceful from Reddit.
holy cow.
has anything like this happened before? this is glorious
Digg exodus, I guess. and, to a smaller extent, the 2015 Blackout.
Good on them. Only way to send the signal. If Reddit follow through and boot all the current mods, instate new ones... it will be chaos.
This was basically force the admins of reddit to remove them as mods... going to annoy a lot of people but its not going to magically cease reddits operations.
I think any and all subreddits should go this way.
Reddit is only popular because of the users. We create the content. Yes, a lot of posts on the website are external links but all discussions are generated and concluded by us, the users.
Shutting subs down for 1-2 days and going back to normal is not going to have much of an impact. It's akin to a server blip. If subs shut down indefinitely then reddit has a real problem. 'Normal' users will start to take notice, whereas they currently might not be paying much attention. These subs should go the other route. Shut down and promote alternatives (such as lemmy!) to divert traffic away from reddit.
Pigboy Spez talked about not being profitable. No shit, you dick. This is how you become even less profitable, by pissing off the entire user base.
Good on the mod team of /r/videos! It must have been a difficult decision to walk away from a 26M+ sized community but I think it's definitely better to scuttle the ship and go down with it than capitulate at this point. This is a bold choice that's left Reddit between a rock and a hard place.
This is such a big win! I really hope that capacity increases on kbin. Perhaps the mods/admins can organise a donation link? I'm sure there are many of us that would be happy to donate to improve server capacity. (Provided it was secure etc etc)
Usually refuges are the ones asking for help. I love that in Rexxit, the refuges are the ones seeking to give help.
Rexxit 😂 love it