I’ve heard that moneied interests are paying Twitter and now reddit behind the scenes to ruin their respective communities. It’s because every time something happens that shakes the foundation of who’s in charge, it’s always a social media coordinated public effort behind the push for change. The most recent one I can think of is the Twitter-fueled women’s rights movement in Iran. Or even the push to get progressive names like AOC elected.
So now we have rich interests paying CEOs to sabotage their own companies in order to better maintain the status quo.
I know this concept falls squarely into conspiracy theory territory, but with Twitter and reddit, both once bastions of progressive organization, going to shit at the same time, and threads popping up with the messaging that they explicitly want to avoid news and politics, you can’t help but wonder if there’s a concentrated effort behind the scenes to break up communities that are actually starting to make a difference.
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OK, I'll allow this thread to stay up for now, so I can answer your complaints and demands, even tho it is in violation of our civility rule. I have removed the comments below tho that violated our rules.
Who are you anyway? I have no record of you ever having participated on the subreddit, and your rude behaviour also betrays a lack of familiarity with how we used to run LWMA.
But what you have done is wrong.
Who exactly are you to determine that? I made an ethical decision after about two weeks of consideration. I could no longer justify doing volunteer work for Reddit, after it demanded exorbitant amounts of money from third-party applications (while not paying its content creators and curators). Moderators use third-party applications, because Reddit's native solutions are too limited in functionality. Already the moderation experience has degraded. That's a hard pass for me.
by destroying it in your wake you have undone all that work
I didn't destroy anything. When I stepped down, I purposely left the sub as functional as it was before. If the remaining moderators are not doing the moderation work, that's not on me.
There were plenty of posts full of people asking to take over as the main mod of that subreddit.
There was one post by a mod that was MIA for a long time and returned to announce he was going to keep the sub going and get a new mod team together. My response was: have at it. I even waited a week to potentially help with vetting new applicants for moderator.
There were a few comments by people who expressed interest. Several times I pointed to modmail as the way to apply. Nobody applied by modmail. If they can't even follow simple instructions, they are likely not good candidates for the position. Or they weren't sufficiently motivated. Again, that's not on me.
Indeed, I did not actively try to recruit new mods there, because I believe it is unethical to moderate on Reddit at this point. But I also didn't stand in anyone's way.
You have destroyed a group of 15,000 people in a move driven by impotent spite.
I left a group of 15k, of whom maybe 500 were active participants. And you clearly have no understanding at all of my motivations.
And again, I left it functional, with a mod who announced he would keep it going.
You are also overwhelmingly arrogant to believe that not only have you "called" the replacement to reddit correctly
Personal attack. Cut that out.
And I didn't pretend this was the correct call. I specifically said I believe this is a good place to move to, and if it turns out it isn't, we can move somewhere else.
REOPEN R/LEFTWINGMALEADVOCATES - AND APPOINT ANOTHER HEAD MOD.
I literally can't, because I am no longer a moderator there. u/2717192619192 stepped up, and he was above me in the mod list anyway, so I effectively appointed him as head mod when I left. Any complaints of what happened after I stepped down on June 22nd (such as the move to set the subreddit as private), should be addressed at him. It's out of my hands.
r/programming was one of the earliest subreddits, I think it was actually #2. Can't view it anymore, but the moderation team of r/programming would have been pretty reddit admin/staff heavy. Pretty sure spez was listed on the moderation team at one point.
Reddit is ending Reddit Gold and users are furious ( mashable.com )
The website has been knocking it out of the park for popular decisions lately /s...
Coincidence that Reddit and Twitter are taking the same approaches to monetization? ( lemmy.ml )
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Reddit seems to be scrambling behind the scenes to try and limit the effects of the migration. Damage control: ChatGPT bots are spamming pro-admin, astroturfed comments ( i.imgur.com )
Apologies if this is a repost. They’re scared lol....
Reddit's API protest just got even more NSFW ( mashable.com )