cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/180455

Seems there are plenty of Reddit bootlickers lined up ready to oust all the protesting moderators. https://twitter.com/aaronp613/status/1668683335718035457

Worse still, the mods at r/Apple caved and voluntarily reopened instead of letting Reddit replace them: https://web.archive.org/web/20230616040715/https://libreddit.garudalinux.org/r/apple/comments/14al426/rapple_blackout_what_happened/

They also have no intention of moving their community anywhere else… https://libreddit.garudalinux.org/r/ModCoord/comments/148ks6u/indefinite_blackout_next_steps_polling_your/jo6k0ox/

  • @Gradually_Adjusting
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    262 years ago

    The quality of moderation will decrease significantly with no API.

    Reddit itself will continue to cut costs to achieve profitability. Quality of services will probably decrease.

    It will IPO amid mounting negative sentiment, and the stock will plummet. You’ll start seeing loads of ads for Reddit (a place funded largely by ads).

    It’ll eventually be bought by an even worse company. Probably a competitor who low key wants it dead.

    All the while, fewer and fewer communities will have quality moderation.

    There’s still time to build, though. And that’s what’s happening here, I think.

      • @Gradually_Adjusting
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        52 years ago

        I’m sure there’s another chudionnaire out there looking to beat his high score for most squandered capital

    • @[email protected]
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      82 years ago

      Their complete disregard for users, mods, and devs has completely shifted my interest away from Reddit. Even if they weren’t shafting third party apps, spez has completely burned any goodwill they had.

      Reddit has, in not so few words, stated clearly that it doesn’t give two shits about us and is purely chasing profits at this point while monetizing user generated content.

      Lemmy may be in its infancy still, but the memes are dank and the posts have genuine engagement. Also the little Lemmy rat is cuter than Snoo. 🐀

      • @Gradually_Adjusting
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        32 years ago

        It’s been a while since I made the above comment, and I’m surer now. There’s got to be some corporate raiding at play with regard to IPO. Really bad optics that seem almost deliberate.

        • @[email protected]
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          22 years ago

          It legitimately feels like they’re putting every single effort regardless of consequence into the IPO, then selling out / taking severance / etc. Iunno, it’s their problem and not ours now 😁

          • @Gradually_Adjusting
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            12 years ago

            The corporatist to fascist pipeline, and all that. It’s our problem in that Meta is already casting its eye at the fediverse. Lemmy and its ilk are a threat to corpo hegemony in the social media space, and if they can ruin it, they will. Spoiler warning: they can.

      • @[email protected]
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        12 years ago

        Since moving to Lemmy a few weeks ago I genuinely didn’t realise just how many ads I was being served via Reddit which weren’t guised as actual paid ads. I legit can say after weeks of trawling Lemmy, I don’t think I have seen a single brand or image of a brand being posted anywhere.

        On Reddit it was every few posts…

        I haven’t been back now for at least 4 weeks and at this point, no longer miss it. Between Lemmy, Chan and couple of other sites I get news from, the void of no Reddit has been filled.

        Really enjoying my time with Lemmy… It reminds me of early web :) I hope it doesn’t change!

  • DoubleCore
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    152 years ago

    I wish them a lot of good luck moderating the subreddit wihout proper tooling and API. Let’s see how long they last.

  • @GuyWithLag
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    122 years ago

    Well, it’s the Apple subreddit. I’m pretty sure that they only get to keep the name under the control of the company.

    • @Falmarri
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      172 years ago

      Also if they’re apple fans they’re used to licking boots

      • @joneskind
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        02 years ago

        At least our community is not loaded with LGBTQI haters…

        • @Falmarri
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          72 years ago

          What does this even mean? What community is lgbtq haters?

          • Aer
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            12 years ago

            I am so confused? My first thought is Windows, Android or Lemmy? And none of those three make any sense lol

            Someone please ELI5

    • @JoeKrogan
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      52 years ago

      Or they could make it about actual apples 🤣

  • @[email protected]
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    112 years ago

    I really don’t understand why more sub-reddits are not trying to rebuild or move their community elsewhere.

    Then again, tons of mods are just as corrupt as the admins of the site. That doesn’t excuse all the users who continue to stay on that platform though.