This was inevitable, unfortunately.

I think that anyone who's been around reddit long enough knew this was coming. Reddit isn't a free and open platform, and never was. The admins allowed moderators free reign just so long as they didn't do anything that reddit didn't want.

Fuck u/spez

This post seems somewhat disingenuous. One of the mods Cedarwolf posted his side of what happened 2 hours prior to this post appearing, and if we were to believe his side of the story the top mod who hasn't been active for a year just decided to join the blackout against other mods wishes.

Yes, it's two conflicting stories but he claims to have evidence that he's been inactive. Basically, people should look into this more than assume truth in the headline.

Actually I accidentally clicked a Reddit link on Google earlier today and (I don't remember the subreddit) my first thought was: I'm pretty sure this subreddit took part in the blackout so why can I see its posts like nothing happened?

Apparently, there's a heck of a lot of drama involving this right now. https://old.reddit.com/r/wholesome/comments/148aw58/radviceanimals_just_had_the_top_mods_permissions/

Honestly not too surprising. But good luck moderating the bigger subs without the old volunteers.

Unfortunately, Reddit can just keep doing that as often as they want. Fortunately though, there are few people who will actually be able to do a good job moderating especially for FREE. They will burn through the good candidates and have to rely on unqualified people to do a mediocre job. This will ruin the content quality and eventually kill the sub. So long term we may still win, but short term we will likely see little change. The problem is always the level of involvement of the general public.

They can't just re-open subreddits and expect it to go over smoothly. These subs will collapse without moderators.

We can only hope reddit dissappoints their moderators so much they'd rather moderate lemmy communities :)

They would want to test it on one subreddit first and see how it went. The quality will tank, but this is something they could get away with.

Welp, I'm officially never going back to reddit, might as well start deleting my account now...

lmao, good fuckin luck replacing dedicated volunteers with one or two shitty ones obsessed with power

This is extremely short-sighted on reddits part, elevating lower mods to leads can cause so much drama in a community particularly when the lower mods don't have experience, the lower mods will probably make basic mistakes that'll turn the average base away from the subreddit.

this is really going to bite reddit in the ass if they try it more its like trying to fix a leak by sticking random objects in the hole

Fuck u/spez

Does that mean they're unmoderated now? r/worldpolotics here we come!