Reddit @lemmy.world fossilesque @mander.xyz 1 mo. ago

Permission now required to take subreddits private

old.reddit.com A change to Community Type settings

Posted in r/modnews by u/Go_JasonWaterfalls • 0 points and 289 comments

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It's just Reddit centralising control to the admins, and cracking down on dissent. It's funny how much it mirrors real life instances of countries sliding into authoritarianism. But obviously this is just a website and doesn't have such severe consequences.

Huffman and the Reddit admins are scummy bastards, and all decent people should leave that platform immediately, the same as Twitter.
- I get why mods care about the unique spaces they've made, like askhistorians or something. But why tf would anyone at this point give free labor to mod funny or any of the other generic monster subs? Make the pigboy police the nazis on his platform to keep advertisers happy
- the defaults seem to be all bots anyway
I guess it really got under Steve Hoffman’s skin.
- I think they are preparing for something god awful.
  
  Getting rid of old.reddit I guarantee it. It's only a matter of time
  
  Given it was the only easy way to protest something as community moderators you bet!
  
  All mods replaced with AI
  
  Nah, something awful is long gone
- His actual lizard skin, or the human costume he wears?
  
  Either way it's got to itch.
Wait. I just saw another post about thousands of bot accounts joining new subs. Is this to ensure "le Reddit army" can still appear active?
- Ah, a fellow le gentlesir in the wild!
  
  tips hat
  
  Lol, if you don't get it, you're not a Redditor. ;)
  
  wHeN dOeS tHe NaRwAl BaCoN? 🤪🤪
Interesting to see if anyone will mention Lemmy
- I wonder if they censor mentions of Lemmy or if all the people that left for Lemmy are gone and no one noticed. Like, why are people still there and putting up with more of Spez's bullshit? Do they not know they can just leave?
  
  "everyone is there already" is a the reason I see the most
  
  To ask... Is to to answer...
I am not on Reddit, but, would making a subreddit private lead to difficulty in training the AI and collecting data?
- sorta, by reducing or eliminating new activity on that sub.
- No. They have an api.
Honestly I'm just waiting for for the other shoe to drop. This is the exploding pager before the ground offensive.
- did you just compare random people getting an explosion directly to the face with reddit locking conversion to private? you're an idiot
  
  Clutch those pearls harder.
Old.Reddit.com is next to be killed..
- They should do it
  
  So even less people want to go to that site?
- I thought it already was, until I saw your post.
Let the plebs keep licking them boots...

Or they come over to fedi and start on something new...
Kinda like that time the king of England took away Massachusetts' legislatures. But I have a feeling the king here will fair better this go around.
- George’s problem was that he was merely a king, and not a god
- Hopefully he won't, Reddit may seem more powerful in this scenario, but they aren't invulnerable to threats or attacks. Hopefully enough angry people decide to do what's necessary when the time comes.
- Hopefully he won't, Reddit may seem more powerful in this scenario, but they aren't invulnerable to threats or attacks. Hopefully enough angry people decide to do what's necessary when the time comes.
Can community owners still delete entire communities, or this action also needs approval from Reddit staff?
- They were never able to delete communities.

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