this post was submitted on 22 Jun 2023
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First they came for /r/pics ... now Reddit are coming for the individual personal subreddits

Quite some years ago I'd realised that amongst the problems with using Reddit as a personal blogging space (my avatar here is a relic of that, if you'd not put the two together) was that I do not in fact have any permanent claim to that space.

Reddit's previous policies of moderator re-assignment bothered me.  The policies apparently instituted September 2022 and being rolled out aggressively in recent days ... have not weakened my concerns.

And, checking in now, I find a day-old modmail to /r/dredmorbius, a subreddit which only ever was my own personal posts with comments from a few friends, and about 1,000 subscribers ... has received a notice to reclaim by /u/Modcodeofconduct, screenshot attached here.

I have not abandoned the sub.  I had closed it in protest of Reddit's continued failings and war against its volunteer moderators and general community.

And I will not go quietly.

#Reddit #FuckReddit #ModCodeOfConduct #RedditStrike #RedditBlackout

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[–] SacredHeartAttack@lemmy.world 44 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I signed on here at Lemmy.world on the eve of the blackout. I haven't been using Reddit since and I couldn't be happier about it.

[–] binwiederhier@discuss.ntfy.sh 29 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I will say, that while I like Lemmy (despite its bugs and all that), it severely lacks stupid GIFs and videos, from interestingasfuck, damnthatsinteresting, PublicFreakout, aww, etc.

Maybe that'll come, but I doubt it.

[–] z3n0x@feddit.de 32 points 1 year ago (2 children)

i actually find the lack of moving stuff refreshing. All the platforms are moving to short addictive video. Reddit wasn't like this in the beginning, either.

[–] mombi@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

Well, the great thing about the fediverse is you can actually block out things you don't like, permanently, unlike on Reddit.

I think more content the better, generally speaking. Of course there's communities I've already blocked from my feed even with the little available currently.

[–] all-knight-party@fedia.io 1 points 1 year ago

Agreed. Sure, that stuff is missing, but I really loved going to Reddit to read things, funnily enough.

[–] animist@lemmy.one 11 points 1 year ago

Be the change you wish to see