I projected that same fuckin thing too. That's what happens for every platform; when the decent, good-faith followers get ran off, the scumbags inherit and just ferment the environment into a cesspool. I'm sure Spez is gonna be pleased with his soon-to-be new userbase full of center/far-rights, apathetic loyalists and equally money-grubbing dipshits.

Yes. This is what will happen. The far right will capture large numbers of moderately sized mainstream subs, they'll think they're crafting narratives like traditional media does as they alienate larger and larger groups of users, and then the whole damn thing will collapse into the ever widening cesspit.

I've been trying to get a kbin instance set up for Atlantic Canada, but I've been extremely time constrained the last two weeks. We'll see how next week goes...

A former T_D mod messaged /r/aww announcing that he intended to take over their community. Can you imagine what would happen if these bigots got their hands on 10m+ subs? Spez is just empowering the most out of touch, angry dissenters to take control of some of the most high profile communities. It won't go well for him.

"We want to give users a say in the moderation of their subs."
<users continue the protests>
"Not like that!"

Exactly! And they cynically finally started working on moderation tools AFTER the protest (apparently the built-in mod tools had been garbage for years...)

Yep. This feels like a potentially bad idea for exactly this reason

100% smaller subreddits will be a shit show.

Oh, what's this? Our new hire just got 500k votes in just 5 minutes. What a popular person, they will be a great mod.

Somehow I just don't think I'd trust that voting system....

I went to Reddit today for the first time this week, and it just feels hostile. Even more hostile than before. There are all these people seemingly excited that the 3rd party apps are going away, and people mad that some subs are gone without taking a few moments to understand why.

Normally Reddit is just a pile of people arguing at each other, and now it feels like a pile of people angrily yelling at each other. Who wants to really hang out in that environment?

couldn't have said it better myself. fuck that dispicable cunt Huffman. haven't peeked at reddit since the start of the blackouts and hope I'm strong enough to stay away

Yeah. I have previously said that my personal redline is the removal of old.reddit, but it seems like they're actively probing around to find other redlines I hadn't even considered.

For many, many years people have been wanting some way to deal with "abusive" or "rogue" mods. Guess all it took was for the "abusiveness" to be aimed at the Reddit admins rather than the plebian users.

There have been reports that reddit is restoring deleted content. Some are saying it may be a GDPR violation if you're requesting reddit to delete your data.

@danie10 people are reporting that deleted posts are reappearing on Reddit. The terms of use says they can do this, which is pretty messed up.

@cura

There used to be a GreaseMonkey script that will automate this.

I used Redact.dev. And I'm currently running it a second time since it looks like posts in private subreddits that have since re-opened get reverted (presumably the edit doesn't go through correctly?).

Be careful, People have seen their post deletions being undone. Some posts that were restored were deleted as much as a decade ago. It appears to be manually chosen subreddits getting restored, but it's something to keep an eye out for.

Unfortunately, they can undo that in seconds.

You don't need to monetize too hard with fediverse. Anyone can self host an instance, no venture capital loans needed.

Not a day passes until another hilarious "press statement" from that spez

It really is something new every day, isn't it? And it's begun to be entertaining to watch the collapse

To quote a reddit admin's (kn0thing) -11k downvoted comment from an infamous incident 8 years ago:

Popcorn tastes good.