From Mastodon https://toot.cat/@dredmorbius/110588848407336816

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

  • @SacredHeartAttack
    106•1 year ago

    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.

    • @[email protected]English
      39•1 year ago

      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.

      • @[email protected]English
        46•1 year ago

        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.

        • @[email protected]English
          9•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
          2•1 year ago

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