I read this update posted last night on the r/iPhone discord, and have not seen this posted anywhere yet. Please feel free to direct this to the proper community if this is out of place.

I highlighted the relevant sentence, but it seems that the moderators are discussing how to proceed after the initial Reddit blackout behind the scenes, and having the communities being unmoderated is one of the potential options.

How do people feel about going back to an unmoderated Reddit?

Archive.org link if imgur doesn’t work for you

Website metrics mentioned in initial post (Webarchive)

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    Doubt it. Most big subreddits have a lot of people wanting to become a mod, they’d just request it from Reddit - mods abandoning the subreddit is the most common reason they grant a new owner to a community.

    What will happen is the quality of the subs will drop - less megathreads, less documentation, barely functional wikis, no live events, the passion will be mostly gone.

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      Most big subreddits have a lot of people wanting to become a mod, they’d just request it from Reddit

      This is what I was thinking too, but there was no clarification of whether the mods would openly abandon their positions, or just refusing to do any enforcement of the rules besides the bare minimum (which is already what a lot of big sub mods do lol).

      Either way, this is more evidence that that Reddit will become a worse experience on all fronts.

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    Staying as moderators but abstaining from moderating would be ideal. Let the whole place go to hell, let spam fill it, heck contribute to the spam through alts. Hide anything that could be worthwhile in a haystack of garbage. Upvote garbage. If they decide peaceful protest will “blow over”, then offensive protest will destroy any value the site has. It’ll go the way of twitter should moderators allow it.

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        1 year ago

        Yup! And if we can’t end the enshittification from the company, we should hasten it in the userbase and make the entire site unpalettable.

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          What can you possibly come up with that isn’t right wing propaganda at this point? It will just seem like business as usual for fox fiction and twithard. That is the only userbase currently on the platform during the blackout. You’ll actually grow their numbers from the current baseline.

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        1 year ago

        Better: create posts that point to original threads/posts on lemmy instances. It’s a legitimate link but shows people that there is something similar.

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    1 year ago

    Why would one want to moderate Reddit, especially if it’s free labor for a company making money?