Reddit is forcing mods to reopen subs, as you might know already.
The 2 biggest subs reacted by “invading” r/all with pictures of John Oliver, here’s an article about it: Two of the biggest Reddit communities reopened in the funniest way possible.
It would be really fun if r/wow followed suit with Daddy Denathrius (it’s an option on the poll).
I really hoped that one of the poll choices would be to move to community over to lemmy / kbin. Voted keep dark, with Dentahrius being my second choice.
The last two choices are too similar.
I would have loved that too, I hope they’re at least considering the move to somewhere else, tho I can understand it’s not easy with a community that big.
I messaged the mods during the poll and urged them to move to lemmy or kbin. They responded saying that I’m “far from the first to suggest this” and that they’re thinking about it but moving an entire community of that size over is difficult. I don’t think they really understood that they would never be able to move the entire community over and that’s ok, since an exodus needs to begin somewhere.
But it looks like they just reopened like every other sub. Disappointing.
Yeah I messaged the mods too, mostly to thank them for what they did so far since I’m quitting reddit, I too suggested to consider moving, I bet lots of people did that.
But it looks like they just reopened like every other sub
I try to think they’re maybe discussing it internally while pretending things are back to normal, staying put is probably best for them, mentions of lemmy/kbin are being removed, a few people even banned over it.
r/wow is more than 2 millions, there’s no way they can join an existing instance, lemmy has 300k users across all instances and still struggling under the influx, can you imagine the disaster if a community that big just joined any server? They would probably need to setup a dedicated server, that requires time and a lot of planning.
So it seems that the Go dark option won with about 50% of the votes, but the subreddit is staying open?
Really feels like they’re saying “We’ll continue putting up polls until you all agree on what we’ve already agreed”.
Yeah I don’t understand that either :(
Would be interesting to see what Reddit would do if the larger subs mods just left and they had to insource it all.
Although there will always be bootlickers to play nice I’d imagine so for the vast majority of people this’ll blow over…
Hard to tell, reddit doesn’t have enough manpower to mod everything, that’s sure, but there are indeed bootlickers that would do anything to have a little power.
That’s why I believe we, as users, have also an important part in it, we can support “our” mods, if they are forcibly removed, but spamming the subs to make reddit’s mods life miserable, see how long they last lol.
Even better IMO is just quitting reddit, moving communities elsewhere, all lurkers that don’t care will stay but that’s ok, “we” don’t need them.
Very true - I wiped my accounts comments before the two day blackout begun and won’t be going back. Although maybe for a short spam protest ;)
I’m kind of optimistic about the split away, going back to (for now) smaller communities is a nice change.
Thanks for the heads up :) haven’t been over there in a week now
Me too, but I saw the article I linked, then someone saying r/art was doing the same and r/Steam (Valve) posting only literal steam stuff (that is vapor coming out of boiling water) that I had to see for myself lol, it’s hilarious and a very smart way to protest IMO.
