Internal messages: Reddit tells protesting mods that their communities won't remain private beyond the timeframe set for this week to confirm reopening plans
I'd buy it if we got one or two or any in the past, but five randomly on the same day Reddit is trying to force open subreddits is fishy to me https://www.theverge.com/... … @waxy@xoxo.zone : Reddit is forcing protesting moderators to reopen private subreddits: I'm sure all those unpaid volunteers will take the news well https://www.theverge.com/... Dan Gillmor / @dangillmor@mastodon.social : Reddit, owned by media giant Advance, is outright going to war against moderators who refuse to kowtow to the company's misguided destruction of 3rd-party apps. https://www.theverge.com/... Inertia is the company's most potent weapon. … @EshuMarneedi@mastodon.social : This is worse than Twitter. — Imagine if Elon Musk went “Hey, all of you leaving Twitter — you can't. Go fuck yourself.” He didn't do that. Reddit is literally doing that. Subreddits can't shut down because Reddit will tear them back open. — This is literal insanity. … @astatide@tech.lgbt : Watching how delicate our internet stack is, in terms of implicit agreements about how websites interoperate and what happens when someone breaks one, is fascinating. — That is, OpenAI and Google start massive text scraping and want to charge for their services; Reddit, in anger and mismanagement … Twitter: Owen Williams / @ow : most of the canadian / local subreddits have been taken over by alt-right mods for years and this is just going to make it happen to every major subreddit out there https://www.theverge.com/... Forums: r/technology : Reddit is telling protesting mods their communities ‘will not’ stay private r/ModCoord : Reddit is telling protesting mods their communities ‘will not’ stay private