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📢Entire mod team on r/mildlyinteresting (and more subs) removed and locked out of their accounts after changing their rules upon community's request. (They're also switching subs BACK to SFW) (media.kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by minnieo@kbin.social to c/RedditMigration@kbin.social

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EDIT: GO DM MODS OF YOUR FAVORITE SUBREDDITS AND POLITELY ASK ABOUT MIGRATION!: something as simple as "Hey, I love this community but I no longer use reddit, will you guys be making a community on Kbin or other alternatives? Let me know please, thanks." will work!! We need more voices encouraging migration!

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ModCodeofConduct switching subs to SFW

POST ABOUT MODS FORCIBLY SWITCHING SUBS BACK TO SFW (teddit)

"What the users want" my ass. Reddit doesn't give 2 shits about what the users want.

If you guys wanna do more and get back at reddit, consider using a program that has gathered hundreds of their advertiser emails an emailing them to try and stop them from advertising, there is a email guide inside as well! USE BCC, NOT TO OR IT WILL SHOW ALL THE COMPANIES EVERYONE YOU EMAILED.

edit:

r/interestingasfuck removed as well

r/ThanksIHateit mod team removed

r/self mod team removed

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from r/mildlyinteresting. restoration after they saw the backlash or mod team replacement? we dont know quite yet

r/mildlyinteresting update

edit 3: Reddit removed moderators behind the latest protests before restoring a few of them - restored by a different admin than the one that removed them...

#boycottreddit #reddit #spez

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[–] LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.one 176 points 1 year ago (27 children)

Tbh everyone just needs to leave reddit

Let the bots take over

It's always been Stormfront 2.0 anyway

Fuck reddit

[–] minnieo@kbin.social 78 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yes, at this point, there is really no fucking saving it or hoping for changes, they will go as far as they need to go to get their profits back up. It must be abandoned. The only time I ever spend on reddit is to convince people to migrate to kbin or lemmy (nicely, dont be annoying)

[–] OtakuAltair@lemmy.world 35 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

I find that a large majority of redditors are still somehow completely clueless about what's happening.

So I made this little summary of events inviting confused redditors to lemmy/kbin if anyone wants to copy/paste; seems to get people to understand.

[–] ILeftReddit@kbin.social 20 points 1 year ago (3 children)

@OtakuAltair At this point I don't care about redittors or reddit. It can go on to be wildly successful, doesn't matter to me, I've moved on.

[–] AmidFuror@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago

Username checks out?

[–] OtakuAltair@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Alot of us wouldn't be on here either if it wasn't explained to us; I think the confused people deserve at least an explanation too

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[–] Mereo@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Unfortunately, the majority will not care. Reddit's app ranks first in iOS' app store after Twitter. This is what Reddit wants, people to stop using third-party apps so that they can easily target ads to users.

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[–] gk98s@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I had no idea lemmy was a thing until r/piracy. More big subs need to switch

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[–] Dreckard@kbin.social 28 points 1 year ago (5 children)

What really worked for me was the https://sub.rehab website. When I found that, it made me realize I need to stick with the people who actually built the subs I love -- the mods. Here I am.

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[–] ErraticDragon@kbin.social 12 points 1 year ago

You know how there are posts all over Reddit (and even all over here) saying "what's with the porn on r/interestingasfuck?" or "I don't know what's going on with John Oliver"?

It's because of them that the "protests" must continue. Raising awareness is the point. Only a small percentage even know what's going on.

Reddit would love for everyone to quietly go away, they'll pretend nothing happened and move on with a small chunk of users missing but still growing.

[–] dismalnow@kbin.social 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

@LinkOpensChest_wav

@minnieo

It's always been Stormfront 2.0 anyway

Exception taken.

Don't get me wrong: it has been an absolute dogshit downward spiral for at least the last five years, but what it has become bares almost no resemblance to what it was 15 years ago - or even 8 years ago.

It had great potential and utility. All of it squandered via some of the worst decisions possible. Each of which ignored the current user base in favor of a quick buck.

It needs to be taken out behind the barn and shot.

Echoing: Fuck Reddit.

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[–] Harry@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I just deleted my reddit account. Fuck that bs.

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[–] okbin@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

they won't

i tried to move my 100k subscriber sub to kbin (i also offered two different chatrooms)

6 came to kbin and people started attacking me for having the sub closed (one person even resorted to transphobia like jesus fucking christ) and being "political" and one person even made their own version of my subreddit

moving is too much work (it's actually not that much work, but since we now need two videos playing at the same time and can only watch those vids for 30 seconds, everything is "too much work"). that's why people are still on facebook, twitter, instagram, and tiktok.

i'm very glad there's an acceptable amount of activity on the "threadiverse" right now... but i just don't have hope that everyone will leave.

[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I think your post demonstrates that it's a good thing everyone won't be coming here.

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[–] danc4498@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Reddit's relevance came from the people that used the app, not the app itself. If Reddit wants to fuck over the people that made the app what it is today, they will end up useless.

Reddit is not like Twitter in that it thrived from mass population of people using it. It thrived from quality users that provided quality content.

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[–] someguy3@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Ironically this API issue will kill bots, which was needed.

[–] Yewb@kbin.social 45 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It will only slow them temporarily you don't need api for bots

[–] Kichae@kbin.social 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, it'll only kill the useful ones in the long run.

[–] CoderKat@kbin.social 15 points 1 year ago

Yeah. The unethical bots will just use scrapers, as they already do for the many websites that don't offer APIs. They're already violating ToS, so they don't care. Ethical ones won't have that option (at least not past the fairly low quota).

[–] troybot@kbin.social 26 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Correct. Now the bots will be constantly scraping the pages of every post which will be a much bigger burden on their servers.

[–] Skray@kbin.social 18 points 1 year ago

It's funny, years ago websites switched to openly available APIs specifically to lessen server burden because of bots. Now they're swapping away from APIs because of bots, but those bots are just gonna go back to scraping.

[–] cptapathetic@rustyshackleford.cfd 16 points 1 year ago

Sounds like Reddit has a skill issue.

[–] Yewb@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago

Exactly spez forgot why they needed an api

[–] ErraticDragon@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago

From my understanding, they already aren't using the API.

If the spam bots were using the API, then Reddit would have been able to shut them down trivially. Part of logging in via API requires a "client ID" that uniquely identifies the creator of the app/bot being used.

They could theoretically have each bot account create its own client ID, but even that would be a pretty obvious thing to look for.

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[–] nonexcludable@feddit.uk 37 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Jesus, this is escalating fast. I never actually thought admins would go to such crazy lengths. Such pathetic desperation!

[–] The_Empty_Tuple@kbin.social 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I fully expected Reddit to fight dirty, but it's still surreal watching the iron hand come down against the community. Silver lining, I hope this helps accelerate the migration to the fediverse.

[–] nonexcludable@feddit.uk 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I remember ten years ago sharing beers with admins who visited London. Back when there was a push for developing local communities and Global Reddit Meetup Day. There was good vibes and a feeling of mutual respect.

I met my wife through Reddit.

I still have so much affection for the site in my heart.

It's just wild to me how much has changed.

Really glad I never got that Snoo tattoo now.

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[–] abff08f4813c@kbin.social 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

We knew that this was a possibility since day one. The mods took a stand anyways, risking it all for the community. Still a shame to see it happen.

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[–] patchw3rk@kbin.social 28 points 1 year ago

Spez: 'Reddit is a democracy!'

Also Spez:

[–] someguy3@lemmy.ca 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

iS tHiS hOw I bUilD gOoDwIlL wItH vOlUnTeEr MoDs?

[–] Fauxreigner@lemmy.fauxreigner.net 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's the fun part, now they have to actually find folks to effectively moderate that sub.

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[–] Jcb2016@kbin.social 18 points 1 year ago

u/spez is a Dictator

[–] DBT@kbin.social 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Looks like they did the same with /r/interestingasfuck

RIP Reddit lol

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[–] meat_popsicle@kbin.social 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If Reddit is taking the mantle of determining valid content and is editing and changing posts for users without their consent, doesn’t that run the risk they fall afoul of the Safe Harbor clause of DMCA?

IMO they’re getting mighty close to editorial control.

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[–] AlmightySnoo@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I have to add though that the form of protest proposed by that mod team is pathetic.

"only YOUR pictures of suggestive vegetables, must still be OC"

Either shut the sub down or burn that shit down by turning it into a porn sub. This little "we're gonna be creative, we're gonna allow suggestive vegetables!" mischief is pathetic af.

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[–] Thalyssa@kbin.social 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The dumbfuck bootlickers who're "yay my content coming back" are fucking cringe. I hope the new people who mod the subs are alt-right trash who will push their shitty ideology onto the subs.

Good riddance.

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[–] abff08f4813c@kbin.social 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Outrageous! We should invite the mod team here

[–] IsThisLemmyOpen@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 1 year ago

Night of the Long Knives, Reddit Edition.

[–] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 year ago

"The beatings will continue until morale improves"

[–] myersguy@lemmy.simpl.website 10 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Surely they can't survive after this, right? Like, people can't be okay with this.

[–] Player2@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I guess they're betting on most casual users to just not notice or care enough

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[–] adamthinks@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

The most mindboggling thing about all of this to me is if Reddit had just improved their own app to be up to par with the multitude of 3rd party apps out there, none of this would have been an issue. They could've migrated everyone over to the official app easily with just a better experience. If a single person can wrangle an app together that outperforms the official one in a month, Reddit has no excuses. Personally, I'm delighted all of this has happened, as it's allowed for multiple viable alternatives to be populated. Which I've been wanting for a very very long time.

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[–] nonexcludable@feddit.uk 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

r/TIHI is also unmoderated along with r/mildlyinteresting and r/interestingasfuck. Is that new?

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[–] Casmael@geddit.social 9 points 1 year ago

Wow this is pretty desperate stuff

[–] lixus98@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago

Wow, I never thought I'd see the day where Reddit would remove entire mod teams.
I guess they were right when they said:

The r/WatchRedditDie moderator team regrets to inform our community that we have, in fact, watched Reddit die...

Reddit died and we watched it.

[–] michikade@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

According to the comments of that thread, they’ve removed the moderator team for r/interestingasfuck and r/tihi too.

Looks like they’re going after the ones that went NSFW but I don’t want to spend enough time trying to find all the rest of them.

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[–] ANuStart@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

Jesus fuck that place

[–] Unsayableorc@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Just checked on r/interestingasfuck, and it says the subreddit is unmoderated.

Glad I left, only reason I still have my account is I'm waiting on my reddit data request.

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