Looks like another hostile takeover.
In a symbolic move, reddit fucks self
This’ll end well… not like there’s a rapidly growing, decentralized alternative solution out there that is positioned to compete, right Spezzy?
People don’t leave link aggregator sites like digg when there’s problems!
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not like there’s a rapidly growing, decentralized alternative solution out there that is positioned to compete, right Spezzy?
Complex thoughts like this require the ability to self-reflect, and that isn’t exactly a trait that raging narcissists are known for.
There were five subs taken over. An interesting thing right now is going to be finding replacements for those mods. Good mods are really hard to find and a lot of the ones that seem good are going to try to turn the subs into alt-right echo chambers.
Also, admins are now demanding approval to turn a sub NSFW, so that method of resistance was showing itself to be effective.
won’t it be fun if all the subs (both nsfw & sfw) toggled their nsfw flags on and off every 5 mins and jammed up the admins inboxes?
yep, looks like the admins are now overtly taking action and stamping their authoritah
exactly the same way that catman does
Took me a moment to figure out you meant Cartman.
if the catman can do it so can you
when admins who are reddit employees take over managing subs, won’t reddit lose its section 230 immunity?
No. The only thing they don’t have that immunity for is the employee statements made on behalf of the company, etc. The whole publisher/platform distinction based on content moderation is just pulled out of someone’s ass.
If by ‘someone’s ass’ you mean ‘the ninth circuit court of appeals’ ass’ then perhaps, as it was the basic principle of the Roommates.com case finding. It’s perhaps unfortunate that the ninth circuit covers California juristiction, or reddit could just ignore it.
The Roommates.com case was about a questionnaire they had that was in violation of fair housing laws. They weren’t immune there under 230 because that was something the company itself put out. From what I understand it wasn’t just them taking moderation action or management of user-generated content.
Wonder how many mods of big subs are drawing plans for a massive migration. I know some big ones established discords but it’s not a reddit alternative.
I have a relatively big sub that’s 13 years old but I have no interest in modding anymore. Someone else can recreate it here if they want.
I was going to suggest that maybe a large group of mods could stop moderating until changes are made. Because Reddit would have a hard time replacing all those mods quickly, I would’ve thought.
But then, are changes from Reddit desirable at this point? They’ve shown just how determined they are to make themselves richer at users’ expense. The best thing is for Reddit to fail at this point, I think.
Moderators can’t exactly do “massive migrations”. Sure they can set up shop a Kbin or Lemmy, and declare that the “official” new home, but that doesn’t mean that their communities will follow them. People read subreddits because of the submissions and the discussion, not for the mods.
It may work for some specific niche subreddits, where the mods are some kind of official representatives of the community, like how we saw the “Jellyfin” project migrate from reddit to their own forum, but I don’t see that working for large generic subreddits like /r/pics or something.
In a way this whole thing is a reality check for some mods too … just because you moderate a big community doesn’t mean that you are a big deal.
The more they screw up the more friends we gain here. All are welcome!
What was r/self about?
It was a sub that only allowed self text-only posts, no links. People used it as a place for pretty much anything, like getting advice, venting, telling a funny story etc.
At this point, I’m just waiting for my Data request to go through; then I’m nuking everything related to my Reddit account. Fuck u/spez, you pedophilic wannabe Muskrat.
Me too. Still waiting for the export.
Would you happen to know how many years it takes them to go through the request ? I’ve been waiting for over a week now.
If you’re talking about gdpr rulings iirc it’s listed under “a reasonable amount of time” so whatever you say is reasonable.
Also don’t forget the gdpr “right to be forgotten” which means they have to permanently erase your footprint and they cannot restore it by law.
No, I’m just talking about the data extract, not the deletion.
They say up to 30 days but it’s the first site where I ask it that takes more than 48 hours to deliver.
