It’s going to be a lot harder to pull off massive protests.

It’s not like they couldn’t put a stop to blackouts before, as seen with the third-party app fiasco, but Reddit has now made that tactic entirely impossible. Mods will now need to get permission from Reddit admins before they can make a sub private. Makes me wonder if they’re about to do something controversial again soon.

  • Suppoze@beehaw.org
    20·
    2 months ago

    What remains as methods of protest after this? I wonder what would happen to a subreddit if it’s moderators would simply stop moderating all together…

    But I guess admins could always make someone a moderator, there’s always someone willing to have a power trip.

    • davehtaylor@beehaw.org
      35·
      2 months ago

      What remains as methods of protest after this?

      Deleting your account and leaving the site. Reddit clearly doesn’t care about the users, and hasn’t for a very, very long time. Remaining there justifies their actions.

      • Lad@reddthat.com
        28·
        2 months ago

        I remember a couple of people on Reddit smugly saying I’d be back soon after I talked about leaving during the third party app shitshow.

        I’ve never went back, so eat a bag of dicks random Reddit users!

        • Megaman_EXE@beehaw.org
          4·
          2 months ago

          Same. There’s been a few times I’ve needed info from reddit subs, but I’ve never interacted since. I miss some of the activity in the more niche subreddits, but I’m more productive with my time now so I guess that’s good lol

    • Megaman_EXE@beehaw.org
      3·
      2 months ago

      If I’m recalling correctly, a couple of the larger subs had mods stop completely, and reddit just replaced them with power mods

      • Norah - She/They@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        3·
        2 months ago

        That wasn’t just larger subs. They changed the rules for requesting a takeover of a sub, and there are hundreds of subs it affected. There are even cases of it being really dangerous, there’s a shroom hunting sub that is poorly moderated and has had life-threatening advice left up.