I mean, yes, ofc they are going to eventually do this. The team at Reddit isn't going to just let their popular subreddits shutdown indefinitely. They just kick the mods out, moderate themselves or bring some other scabs in to do it.

I think it's the very problem of Reddit. Too much power at the top in a centralized way and too much power to mods of large subreddits with....more subscribers than countries have population.

I think the fediverse is just more the answer top to bottom for more community control.

I know I'm just nitpicking the headline but leave it to the apple community publication to make this about their app.

What we need to do is work with Reddit mods on niche / civil subs to encourage their user base to move here before reddit starts using scabs / censoring content

"we will not force communities to reopen"

But

"we will invite new, active moderators to keep these spaces open and accessible to users"

With WHO? Who's gonna take over that wasn't already part of the mod teams?

Hahaha you know before this many people didn't think of reddit as corporate corporate. They scewed themselves and ruined their goodwill

Union busting 101 - claiming the organizers are lazy and trying to skirt work and fire them asap

Guess it's time to back up certain subreddits off of Reddit and then perhaps... delete them entirely? If it isn't hosted on Reddit anymore, Reddit can't do anything about it.

This would be a job for some data hoarders, though.

What the hell lmao, literally 2 posts down on my feed is the Verge article from today which states:

While the company does “respect the community’s right to protest” and pledges that it won’t force communities to reopen, Reddit also suggests there’s no need for that; more than 80 percent of the top 5,000 communities by daily active users are now open

?????

https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/15/23762501/reddit-ceo-steve-huffman-interview-protests-blackout

Well, removing the abusive, ban-prone mods of /r/Firefox wouldn't be a bad idea.

Why can't "the community" just make another subreddit and then pick it up from there? Oh right, because they want to sell our data.

@bird Expected. They own the website, they do what they want.

I thought if the community agreed that they could be private.

I also thought that the black out didn't really matter for Reddit.

Guess they are starting to sweat.

I think the mods should open up-and only use the official app to mod. If anything would scare future investors away, it would be giant mess reddit would become.

They are getting desperate.