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.

  • Megaman_EXE@beehaw.org
    1·
    3 months ago

    If I’m recalling correctly, a couple of the larger subs had mods stop completely, and reddit just replaced them with power mods

    • Norah - She/They@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      3·
      3 months ago

      That wasn’t just larger subs. They changed the rules for requesting a takeover of a sub, and there are hundreds of subs it affected. There are even cases of it being really dangerous, there’s a shroom hunting sub that is poorly moderated and has had life-threatening advice left up.