Things are moving fast again, so this is going to be another quick and dirty post… Reddit is now removing mod teams without any pretense of speaking for mode...

Things are moving fast again, so this is going to be another quick and dirty post… Reddit is now removing mod teams without any pretense of speaking for mode…

  • HonorableScythe@kbin.social
    30·
    1 year ago

    There’s no way to effectively protest a corporation on its own platform. It controls the platform, it can and will change the rules or enforce them unequally just to shut you up, and there’s nothing you can do about it.

    I feel sort of bad for the bootlickers who are trying to take advantage of the situation for their own ends. With the precedents being set, they’re going to have even less authority to run the subs when it’s done and their sucking up will mean nothing.

    The only good move is to leave.

    • CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social
      17·
      1 year ago

      I mean, I kinda feel like this is a way to effectively protest, because even if they can heavy handedly force you to shut up, you can at least force them to actually do that. The more visibly reddit tries to stamp out dissent, the more people will notice them doing that, and the more upset those people will be. Unlike the irl equivalent, there are few stakes for most people in being involved in this kind of digital protest. At the worst, you get banned there and move somewhere else, which you probably were going to eventually do anyway if youre angry enough to protest reddit like this.

      Doing things that force reddit’s hand, like making subs nsfw, harms them in some way no matter what: either they do nothing, and lose ad revenue and potentially anger people who just wanted their subs to be what they were, or they capitulate, losing them whatever they wanted to do in the first place and showing precedent for the future, or they try to force things back to normal, and fuel the anger against them even further due to people having feeling restricted. It might not kill the site (even digg and tumblr and such still exist, its very hard for a sufficiently big social site to actually die completely), but it can erode its userbase and grow that of competitors, which reduces the potential revenue the site can make.

    • Adama@kbin.social
      4·
      1 year ago

      True but they can go anytime. In the meantime they’re making a fuss, keeping the issue alive in the news and making Reddit take action instead of making it easy for them.

      E.g. “If you want me gone fire me because I’m not quitting so you can save face.”

    • greensky
      3·
      1 year ago

      “The only good move is to leave.”

      Completely agree

    • Guy_Fieris_Hair@lemmy.world
      1·
      1 year ago

      On one hand, causing chaos on reddit and ending up in the news is maybe good?

      On the other hand that drives traffic to the site. Quietly leaving and bitching somewhere else will do nothing.

      Best case is that video strike where people go just long enough to upload 1gb videos of white noise to tax their servers without adding any content.