As some subreddits continue blackouts to protest Reddit's plans to charge high prices for its API, Reddit has informed the moderators of those...

As some subreddits continue blackouts to protest Reddit’s plans to charge high prices for its API, Reddit has informed the moderators of those subreddits that it has plans to replace resistant moderation teams to keep spaces “open and accessible to users.”

Edit, there seems to be conflicting reporting on this issue:

While the company does “respect the community’s right to protest” and pledges that it won’t force communities to reopen, Reddit also suggests there’s no need for that.

Source: https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/15/23762501/reddit-ceo-steve-huffman-interview-protests-blackout

  • arquebus_x@kbin.social
    16·
    1 year ago

    I’m treating the blackout like a strike, and I don’t cross picket lines, and neither should anyone else. No scabs. No one should be agreeing to moderate a sub that has lost all of its moderators to forcible removal.

    • PelicanPersuader@beehaw.org
      8·
      1 year ago

      I agree, but at the same time, the people who are willing to cross the picket lines are facists. They are desperate to take over any spaces they’re able to and turn those places into hellholes. A bunch of subs are about to be destroyed by right wing nutjobs forcing their way into the top slots. A former T_D mod has already set his sights on aww, which would be the death of a wholesome sub like that.

    • awsamation@kbin.social
      7·
      1 year ago

      Except there are inevitably power mods who would happily nump at the opportunity to claim a few more subs for their fiefdoms

    • TauZero@mander.xyz
      1·
      1 year ago

      Everyone should be applying to be a mod, then keeping the subreddits closed :D spez said that they will not force communities to reopen, only that they will be replacing mods