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I knew this is what they would do. :) OpenAI hired Kenyans at 2$/hr to train their AI chatbot. This is what Reddit will do. Hire Africans at 2$/hr to moderate the most popular sub and generate traffic, than try and recruit new volunteer mods, all the while going for the IPO.
The least they could do is make it less obvious who they will replace the mods with. I expect this kind of blatant takeover attitude from a place with less legal department. Like twitter.
"we will not force communities to reopen"
But
"we will invite new, active moderators to keep these spaces open and accessible to users"
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.
Well, you could stay private and continue to moderate as if it would always be a private sub, just have a few authorized users and a few posts a day to moderate...
With WHO? Who's gonna take over that wasn't already part of the mod teams?
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.
the fuckening just doesnt stop. u/Spez lost complete touch with the platform itself.
But hey, they own the joint. they can make their own decisions.
He has not lost touch, he doesn’t care. He’s bought and paid for. If shit does go south, he’s the fall guy.
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
Not every mod wants to start over. Additionally, the tooling is not as evolved for moderating as it was on Reddit with add ons. So we'll just have to rely on the communities naturally forming here
They are getting desperate.
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.
Well, removing the abusive, ban-prone mods of /r/FIrefox wouldn''t be a bad idea.