It’s going to be a lot harder to pull off massive protests.

It’s not like they couldn’t put a stop to blackouts before, as seen with the third-party app fiasco, but Reddit has now made that tactic entirely impossible. Mods will now need to get permission from Reddit admins before they can make a sub private. Makes me wonder if they’re about to do something controversial again soon.

    • Chahk@beehaw.org
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      3 months ago

      In every community, there is always another power-hungry asshole ready to jump on the opportunity to have a tiny bit of control over somebody else.

      Mods not modding is nothing new to reddit. The only impact they would feel is if users stopped posting. I don’t see that happening though.

    • /home/pineapplelover@lemm.ee
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      3 months ago

      That’s what we tried during fuck spez protests. Spez kicked the mods off and enacted new ones. Which makes mods shitty or kicks good mods out and enact shitty mods.