A ton of moderators have been making changes to their subreddits’ rules (e.g., only allowing certain posts, going NSFW, loosening rules a ton) to protest without getting kicked out. Do you think this strategy of turning a subreddit into shitposts is effective or not?
I’m curious to see what the people in this community think, so please share your thoughts.
My opinion is that these forms of protest, while fun, don’t actually help. Most bring more attention and activity to the sub if anything, giving Reddit more ad revenue (which is really all they care about). And the few that are actually harmful (e.g., allowing NSFW content) are being shut down by Reddit.
It’s been made clear that Reddit doesn’t care about what its users want and is willing to reorder, remove, and shadowban moderators to protect profits, so I’d like to see more people moving away from the platform. Even if the alternatives still need development and are missing important features, mods should start making plans to establish communities outside of Reddit.
I don’t expect it to have much of an impact on Reddit/u/spez’s decision but it /does/ help show Reddit’s thought process/response patterns as they take more and more draconian measures to try to “bring the subreddits under control.”
I’m *half expecting - and would be amused by - them forcibly opening a subreddit and then “demanding” that “everyone go back to posting normal memes” - like the collective mob/reddit’s population is beholden to their whims.
Hopefully, as each decision continues to ripple out, more and more people discover alternatives like kbin. I’ve been working hard to avoid reddit as much as possible but I’m getting more and more the desire to reach out to the mods of the subreddits I miss and ask them to move over here.