• @kaduEnglish
    106•2 years ago

    I’ll repeat what I’ve been communicating to some friends that are also mods: don’t bother with half measures, “the community voted for a joke with John Oliver!” or “technically we are not violating the ToS!” - Reddit doesn’t care, this isn’t a court battle, they can and will change whatever rule they want.

    There’s no point in fighting this fight. It’s a massive pain to let go of a large community you helped build, but take the little time you still have in control to migrate to Lemmy and don’t look back. Link your users here, teach them how to use Lemmy. If doing so means in 48 hours they lock your account, guess what, they would lock your account regardless, “malicious compliance” is fun but isn’t a true solution. There’s no solution at this point.

    • agentshagsEnglish
      36•2 years ago

      We can screw up their IPO a bit. I’m sure all the press isn’t helping potential investors feel any better about the new securities being offered.

      FFS, my almost 80 year old dad was in the know about the place burning to the ground.

    • subignition
      13•2 years ago

      Looking at some of the protests, I just see it as a final effort to embarrass Reddit. I think they have collectively decided that the only way to inflict actual, financial harm on Reddit is through the IPO or the advertisers.

      thus you have some subs surfacing porn to piss off the advertisers, and some subs going private until reddit deciding to break up the mod teams against community consensus potentially damages trust in the website generally to hurt the IPO

      I think it will probably have some effectiveness in the medium term, but I also think it could have been more effective if all the protesting subs called reddit’s bluff and refused to reopen. The more drastic the action on reddit’s part, the more drastic the media attention, IMO.

    • ILeftReddit
      11•2 years ago

      @kadu It’s not pointless at all. Really it’s a warning to whoever wants to start a community. If you do something reddit doesn’t like, be prepared to lose what you built, even if following the rules