Minecraft's devs exit its 7 million-strong subreddit after Reddit's ham-fisted crackdown on protest
Minecraft's devs exit its 7 million-strong subreddit after Reddit's ham-fisted crackdown on protest
The Minecraft subreddit won't be a source for official Mojang communications going forward.
Wow, definitely the biggest users to exit the platform
This is what happens when you make companies and organizations afraid that you're just going to take away official communication channels from them. It's the only logical action for then
That and the devs are reddit users. I have a feeling this whole thing pushed them too much
I’m starting to think Spez isn’t the brightest bulb in the box
Bravo x 1000, I say! I was truly disappointed that the mods at sub Reddit for GW2 did not do the same; after initially going on blackout for a few days, they are now back to business as usual.
Especially when they got so much hate from it. Logged in once i heard it was back up and getting those comments as a mod i would have just left and let it die tbh.
I am happy here but i wish more people would leave. As with twitter i will miss the artposts the most...
Glad to see it 💪 Fuck Spez
I feel as if this is the first real sign that this shit has had an impact. Minecraft isn't a small community by any means, and them ditching the huge subreddit over this is shocking.
It makes sense from a perspective that their jobs just got a lot harder, they don't have any of the tools they used to, they are being threaten with termination if they don't volunteer their free time.
Why would anyone want to do that hobby?
But they quit without replacement? https://feedback.minecraft.net is not a replacement for a community
Seems more like a cost cutting measure (mods are paid by microsoft) than a protest. Some manager saw the opportunity to blame an unpopular decision to someone else?
I really don’t think it’s a protest on the part of Minecraft anyway; what they were really saying is that because subs were no longer enforcing rules and content moderation wasn’t happening anymore (or was being actively discouraged) and porn among other things was becoming more prevalent on the site, they didn’t feel comfortable having an official affiliation with Reddit, even if it was only with one sub.
The protest worked in a way, but I wouldn’t give Microsoft credit for actually backing the protests.
I give them tons of credit for this! With Twitter becoming, in my opinion, basically a Nazi echo chamber, the corporate brands and public personalities staying on the platform basically lends it legitimacy. It says "it's normal to hang out in public places where hate groups thrive and are encouraged". Microsoft making this choice is sending a public message that Reddit's conduct is making the place unsafe - that it's not perfectly normal to hang out in the subreddit that are lacking moderation.
It's not necessarily a perfect comparison because I think Twitter's leadership is directly doing things to promote harmful and hateful content, whereas reddit I think is just hurting it's relationship with its own community, but the throughline is the lack of moderation making the content more extreme.
There's the old minecraft forums and its still up iirc.
Companies like this really need to get back to hosting their own forums and stop relying on centralized third parties for everything.
We are about to see a huge renaissance of individual forums of all sorts, I think.