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Megathread for Reddit Blackouts and News - Day 3 (beehaw.org)

submitted 1 year ago by alyaza@beehaw.org to c/technology@beehaw.org

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hey everyone. if you want to post links or discuss the Reddit blackout today, please localize it to this thread in order to keep things tidy! Thanks!

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[–] Clbull@beehaw.org 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I've been a lot more active on Beehaw over the past few days than on Reddit. Tried to get into Kbin but the servers have been remarkably unstable and I don't like the fact that you can only view 25 comments at once.

I think a lot of subreddits will fold. Your typical reddit moderator is hungry for power and having that power taken away from them is probably more terrifying to them than losing Apollo/RIF/BaconReader/Sync/Relay.

[–] melmi@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)


Just found out that that mod changed their mind and decided to go dark anyway, and was promptly removed by Reddit. Well, I guess they *did* see it coming!

[–] Cube6392@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There's an extent to which I get it. You think by staying you'll protect your users from worse abuse and that by playing ball you'll make things more tolerable. But at the end of the day, Reddit is not a prison. Everyone is free to leave at any time. If someone wants their sub to protest they should do it. If they're scared reddit will take over the sub entirely, let them. Reddit will run out of people to act as mods real fast if everyone who wants to protest can, and that will also degrade the user experience. Let's lead our communities how we want and if reddit makes decisions that bleed users, let them

[–] argv_minus_one@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You think by staying you’ll protect your users from worse abuse and that by playing ball you’ll make things more tolerable.

When in the ugly, violent history of humankind has that ever worked?

[–] Cube6392@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

Yeah I didn't explicitly want to get into that since I was being long winded already and I was on my phone, but yes. 100%. Creating safe spaces requires very specific activities, and working with people who prevent you from doing those activities in order to keep things from getting any worse is not a winning play

[–] argv_minus_one@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

I think a lot of subreddits will fold. Your typical reddit moderator is hungry for power and having that power taken away from them is probably more terrifying to them than losing Apollo/RIF/BaconReader/Sync/Relay.

Then let them stay in their Reddit fiefdoms and far away from the Fediverse.