• 🇦🇺Baku@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    Unpopular opinion, but it seems like the mods little protest is working. Most members are pissed about all the Florida posts, 90% of the DT is people whinging about it. I don’t imagine anyone who stumbles across the sub now would want to stay

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      I wonder if it’s worth a few of us dropping into the DT to say where the real convo’s at. But I also don’t want all the Reddit drama to end up here so…

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          It feels a little that way - especially since I guess there’d be few people there now that wouldn’t know about this place. A lot of people have done what they could to bring the regulars in to this safer refuge, but if people don’t want to leave then no one can force them.

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        One bloke there seemed alright and was asking if there were still legends in the DT, so I let him know most of us have moved over here

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          Egh… just scrolled through some of the DT after posting. A few other regulars are there but holy fuck the trash seems to have blown right through the screen door.

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        i did that at breakfast but i don’t want to spam it. Would be nice if a few of us post at different times of the day

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      It’s brutal in there. I’ve been following the API drama, and I can see the mods point about the mod tools becoming inaccessible. but then also read that many tool may not be affected now because there’s a threshold that needs to be met to be charged, and most of the mod tools fall under it? (I could be mistaken). But I honestly cannot see how posting about Florida will get any meaningful interaction or concessions from Reddit. I mean how exactly is it supposed to help? So I think I’m also on the unpopular opinion that it’s just people having an arms crossed foot stamp with no real action plan in mind.

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        I mean how exactly is it supposed to help?

        Pretty sure the goal is that it pisses people off enough that they leave Reddit. Then it’s technically not the mods forcing them off by setting the sub private, it’s the users deciding they don’t like the theme of the sub and choosing to leave. They seem to be removing links to other subreddits, but not to other communities on other platforms.

        (The main thing that triggered this was that the Reddit admins sent the mods a message basically saying “open up now, or we will find someone who will”, but they also said mods are otherwise free to run the sub how they see fit)

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          Hmm I guess that means mods have given up a just want to burn the place down in retaliation. I don’t think it will work. The Melbourne sub might get snuffed, but reddit as a whole will live on just fine. There are lots of active big communities with heaps of users. It won’t really matter if a few of the smaller subs disappear.

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            It’s malicious compliance, subs were ordered to open so they are opening and participating in a way that’s still protesting.

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              all the above is good for me to know. I’ll just copy / dump all my comments and edit them later. The whole thing could self destruct pretty soon again