We’re consolidating our social media presence due to limited resources and no longer posting on Mastodon. Follow us on Reddit
Please tell us that you’re not moving away from Lemmy/Mbin too. There’s a gigantic tonedeafness to asking your supporters to use centralized social media at this specific time that’s hard to accept you’re not realizing.
(quote from Proton’s mastodon.social account info - there wasn’t even a post made about it)
Remember when Reddit explicitly banned companies from moderating their own subreddits? The original point was that the subs should be for the community, but having a corporate moderator would only serve to suppress public dissent. Reddit eventually pulled a hard 180, and now it’s the expectation that a company moderates their sub.
For instance, if a sub was created for a specific TV show, the TV network wasn’t allowed to moderate it. They could have official accounts, but they wouldn’t be mods. Because if fans didn’t like something in a show, they had the ability to voice those opinions. But now there’s a heavy incentive for corporate mods to keep the company image clean, by scrubbing criticism.
Yeah. But hey, Reddit became a profit making machine run by a psychopath. Like every fucking tech company in the U.S. So of course they switched to allow for more income.