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Call to action - renewed protests starting on July 1st (www.reddit.com)
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The latest from /r/ModCoord.

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[–] ThatOneKirbyMain2568@kbin.social 178 points 1 year ago (21 children)

I really don't get why they're doing this.

Reddit has already showed how much it cares about its users. We've tried going private, we've tried going restricted, we've tried going NSFW, we've tried spamming John Oliver posts, we've tried asking nicely in open letters, and Reddit has consistently given its community the middle finger in every single situation. And now that we've seen the admins change rules, remove mods, ban users, and break privacy laws, the plan is to just do the exact same thing they did before in the hopes that it'll work this time?

If a blackout on the platform was going to get Reddit to change its mind, that would've happened already. The time to induce change was two weeks ago, when the protests had lots of momentum. But it didn't work, and trying to make another stand now is going to be even less effective.

I still think that the best move is to leave Reddit for alternatives like /kbin, Lemmy, and Squabbles. Thankfully, some of the comments on the /r/ModCoord announcement are also saying this. Instead of desperately trying to cling to a platform that doesn't care about you, go somewhere else.

[–] Thorned_Rose@kbin.social 37 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I think something to remember is that some communities on Reddit are essential and important to people's wellbeing. There are subreddits that help people get through cancer, or help people with depression and suicide. I help (as best I can) with a subreddit that helps people with access to what can be life changing and life saving medical cannabis. Reddit, as much as I despise social media and centralisation of power and knowledge can be the sole place some people go for support. Of course it shouldn't be that way, but that doesn't change what it is currently.

Because of this, protests aren't just about shitposts or cat subreddits or whatever that anyone can find somewhere else or restart on the Fediverse. It's also about trying to force Reddit's hand into improving what there is so that the essential subreddits can continue (at least for now until a better alternative is created and folks have finished migrating there such as what r/blind has done).

[–] exohuman@kbin.social 41 points 1 year ago

I was part of a support group for people like me on Reddit. I still made the move. It’s time. I suggest those groups leave instructions on where to go.

[–] abff08f4813c@kbin.social 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So the reason r/bind has already jumped to an alternative is because they are affected the most and the hardest.

The other kind of communities today that you mentioned are less impacted, so they can continue .. for now.

I do hope though that the right groups of people are looking into creating the better alternatives right now. The day may come when reddit decides these subs are too much of a liability - or even just not enough of a money maker - and yanks them. And there's no reason to believe that reddit would give them even as much warning as r/blind had.

Emphasizing not a suggestion to move right away, but make sure these places can start establishing backups so they don't exist solely at the whim of reddit.

[–] Kraiden@kbin.social 14 points 1 year ago

start establishing backups so they don't exist solely at the whim of reddit.

This is the really essential point that I think bares repeating. Yes, these communities fill important roles, but that is EXACTLY why we should be pushing them on to other platforms.

They don't need to move entirely, but they should be trying to mirror themselves somewhere else.

Spez may not being going as power mad as Elon yet, but he's definitely looking over there, distracted boyfriend style.

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[–] pizza_rolls@kbin.social 33 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Plus they totally fucked up the messaging with the original blackout. It should have always included information about accessibility being taken away.

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[–] Melpomene@kbin.social 31 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Moving a community is hard, so at least some of those mods are likely thinking that moving would destroy the community they worked so hard to manage. Its not like Reddit is going to respect a request to close, so they would end up competing with themselves when Reddit replaces them with compliant mods.

I'm not saying they shouldn't move (they should) but it's definitely a hard road to re-establish elsewhere. Some communities will thrive, but others, well, its possible that their users will just stay put.

What can we do to help them transition?

[–] stopthatgirl7@kbin.social 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What can we do to help them transition?

I think the best thing we can do is what we’re doing now - creating new spaces and communities over on kbin and Lemmy, while the platforms are making improvements. Right now, kbin isn’t really ready for a huge inrush - I love it, but it’s so very unfinished and not intuitive, and there are no third party apps (yes, you can use the website, yes, you can make an icon on your home screen that acts like an app; it is not the same. The mobile site is a mess). People fed up enough to leave Reddit will put up with a lot that most folks won’t. So let’s keep building up what’s being built here, and when people do get ready to leave, there’ll be an established, more polished place for them to come to.

Sites don’t usually die at once; it’s usually steady attrition. That’s what will happen to Reddit if they don’t get themselves sorted.

[–] Madison_rogue@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Absolutely. I do understand continuing the protesting after the first of the month, and I commend the participating moderators for their efforts. However building a new community and leaving Reddit behind is really the only feasible solution that impacts their site in the long run. Eventually those protesting moderators are going to either capitulate, or lose their positions. Reddit is not going to change this. They've dug in.

I've lurked on Reddit since the blackout, but I haven't participated. My comments are deleted and today is the last day I go there to browse (fitting as today is my cake day....RIP 11 years of Reddit). After the first of the month I'm going to see if any of my comments are restored, delete them and/or replace them with gibberish or corny quip, and then delete my account.

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[–] ThatOneKirbyMain2568@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago

I agree: migrating a community is really challenging. I'm a subreddit moderator myself, and when we were initially discussing this stuff, there was a lot of doubt because of how daunting the task is. Mods from other subs see the challenges as reason to not even try. However, I think it's important that people at least make the attempt given the current state of Reddit.

Something that I think people should keep in mind is that this stuff is gradual and doesn't have to happen all at once, especially since the alternatives aren't fully polished yet. Even just establishing a small, active community outside of Reddit (like people have been doing with all these fediverse communities) is a big win.

Some of the best things we can do right now are

  • providing feedback and suggestions for alternatives
  • making sure alternatives are approachable (/m/quickstart is great)
  • simply being active and providing stuff to do here
[–] raze2012@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

some of those mods are likely thinking that moving would destroy the community they worked so hard to manage

they aren't wrong. It will massively deflate their community. That's an ineivtability of how lurkers on the internet work. They aren't there for community, they are there for easy passive browsing.

What can we do to help them transition?

"we" as in the common person? It won't be a fast track. There will need to be a steady supply of content for a certain topic, and a stream of discussion. Unfortunately the best way to help as a single person is to basically become that sweaty forever online person. The first step to the Network Effect is to generate enough content to engage with.

If "we" have developers or artists that can be one bigger step to help out. contribute to making apps and extensions to either bridge the gap or overcome current shortcomings of these federated instances. Even amongst techy communities there is a lot of confusion to how instances work. So some app to make it dead simple to browse and comment (while later allowing options for power users) is key. Sync committing to working with Lemmy/KBin is definietly a bit help.

Most of the rest is up to the instance admins. SEO, improving features, getting good moderatiors, etc. None of that is in out control, we can only give feedback

[–] btaf45@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago

I still think that the best move is to leave Reddit for alternatives

Me too. I am actually tiring of all these Reddit 'call to arms'. Just leave Reddit already.

[–] Eisenhowever@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

To be fair, if it wasnt for the blackout it wouldnt have given me the motivation to finally move on to kbin. Im sure this will push others to do the same. If all it takes is to slowly dwindle the reddit user by doing the same thing then im all for it.

Of course, i do see why there shouod be more creative protests to switch things up and see what else works.

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[–] Nougat@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

Gives Reddit The Company an opportunity to tank their IPO even more.

[–] AnonymousLlama@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

Still sucks to leave a place you've invested so much time into, plenty of people have a decade worth of lurking, posting, upvoting etc. Not a great situation and I can understand people doing whatever they can to try and get a reasonable resolution

[–] jdp23@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Two reasons the ongoing Reddit protests are important:

  1. the protests keep the pressure on reddit and can lead to ongoing news coverage (which also keeps the pressure on reddit) . Otherwise, reddit will be able to spin the narrative "see? we told you it would just blow over and it did"

  2. kbin, Lemmy, and other alternatives aren't yet at the point where they're ready for millions of redditors. For example, the modCoord post makes the important point that a lot of reddit's moderation functionality isn't accessible ... but almost none of this functionality even exists yet on kbin and Lemmy. So most people aren't going to leave yet.

Don't get me wrong, leaving now is also a good option if you can find what you want elsewhere! But not everybody's there yet.

#reddit #kbin #lemmy

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

I've been going through and deleting my comments and posts as I get time (deleting your account doesn't delete your comments/posts). Once all my comments/posts are deleted, my account will get deleted as well.

[–] AnonTwo@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Because this is the last time it'll really matter, so why not?

The API changes start on the 1st. The thing that started all this to begin with. Doing a blackout then puts it into full effect.

[–] funkyb@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I get your point, but keeping it in the news and dialog outside of reddit is also good, and that is more likely to happen due to things going on inside of it.

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[–] Frog-Brawler@kbin.social 59 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

I’m not going to go to Reddit to read a call to action. Is the call to action, “boycott Reddit?” If so, I have good news for you… if the call to action is something other than “stop using Reddit,” it’s the wrong call to action.

[–] ArugulaZ@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But Call to Danger is always the right call!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPh_qWbMB-0

[–] Froyn@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

I'm 42. Last year I was 41 and discovered the name of the song is "Tijuana Taxi". This year I discovered "Regular Gas". It has nothing to do with the discussion, but hopefully future someone will be like "hmm" and (re)discover a gem.

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[–] a-man-from-earth@kbin.social 41 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Based on what Reddit Inc has done these past three weeks, you can already predict they won't budge, but rather enforce what they want. So, about a week ago I stepped down as moderator from my handful of subs. I'm done with Reddit.

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

Are you reopening here? Just curious as to how many mods are reopening versus closing up shop.

[–] wagesj45@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

I recreated the sub that I mod here. But it got almost no traffic before, so I'm not holding my breath for much engagement here. But hey, its about a topic I like, so what the hell.

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[–] abff08f4813c@kbin.social 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Teddit link to avoid paying for reddit ads: https://teddit.adminforge.de/r/ModCoord/comments/14kn2fo/call_to_action_renewed_protests_starting_on_july/

[–] Thorned_Rose@kbin.social 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)
[–] abff08f4813c@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

What's safereddit and how will it continue working past the API deadline?

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

Serious, what is the point?

The momentum to actually make a stand was after that 48 hours. Some subs actually made a stand but more than enough were happy with the status quo.

Are they gonna do another timed blackout or weak sauce post restriction strike?

[–] UnmeltedByRain@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

As I read your comment, I couldn't remember if this was about the Reddit protest or the Wagner mutiny.

[–] Onii-Chan@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I just... don't care about reddit anymore. I really wanted these protests to succeed, but both the mods AND site admins revealed their true colors, and I ended up here. I fucking love kbin, and wouldn't go back even if reddit fixed its shit. Whatever happens with that site doesn't bother me one bit anymore.

I hope the protests go well, but I'm 100% certain that this is more a case of going out with a fizzle than with an explosion. I almost feel bad for them.

[–] Kraiden@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

I'm here now for sure...

...but deep down I really do hope that Reddit sorts it's shit. I had a really nicely callibrated frontpage that's going to take a long time to build back up here, and will never be the same.

There were some really niche subreddits on there that I just don't know will ever make the jump (no, I'm not going to start alternatives, thank you, but I have a day job)

Stuff like /r/happycowgifs or /r/nerdcubed

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[–] khelmr@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Reddit has already lost me as a user in the past month. I originally expected to switch using old reddit exclusively after July 1, but the blackout revealed to me just how bad reddit's content quality has gone since I first started using it after trying out lemmy and kbin. Reddit's response to the blackout and protests also showed me that they do not care about their community and that the quality will only go further downhill as the power users migrate away. Reddit was the only social media I used, and now kbin is now the only social media I use. There are still some subreddits I lurk in that have not seen activity here yet, so I still visit reddit once in a while but I only do so using RSS feed. I wish the remaining reddit protesters the best, but it appears to be a losing battle.

[–] Cryst@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

I havent been on there since the blackout.

[–] verysoft@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

Perhaps they should make posts in their new kbin/fedi communties and then only allow links to them posts in their subreddits and disable commenting on reddit. People will then see the new platforms and be likely to sign-up to interact with it.

Or just let the fediverse grow organically, perhaps the masses are better off staying away, but if they are trying to protest reddit, they are doing it the wrong way.

[–] ArugulaZ@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

Good grief. Little Lord Lemur-roy isn't going to budge on the API issue, so why stick around? Leave him to his empire of dirt.

[–] abff08f4813c@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Good on them for taking a stance!

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