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The Reddit blackout is breaking Reddit
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Reddit CEO pledges to not force subreddits to reopen. Admin team then immediately threatens moderators who closed their subreddits with removal.
In this article from The Verge posted today "While the company does “respect the community’s right to protest” and pledges that it won’t force communities to reopen, Reddit also suggests there’s...
In this article from The Verge posted today "While the company does “respect the community’s right to protest” and pledges that it won’t force communities to reopen, Reddit also suggests there’s no need for that"
Ironically mere minutes before this article went live, Reddit admins posted this to /r/modsupport.
"Leaving a community you deeply care for and have nurtured for years is a hard choice, but it is a choice some may need to make if they are no longer interested in moderating that community. If a moderator team unanimously decides to stop moderating, we will invite new, active moderators to keep these spaces open and accessible to users. If there is no consensus, but at least one mod who wants to keep the community going, we will respect their decisions and remove those who no longer want to moderate from the mod team."
This statement not only completely contradicts what was "pledged" by Spez, but is also a very clear threat to subreddit moderators telling them to fall in line or get replaced by someone who will.
More articles that came out today about this subject:
Kotaku: Reddit's CEO Is Just Making Everything Worse
NBC: Reddit CEO slams protest leaders, saying he'll change rules that favor ‘landed gentry’
MacRumors: Reddit Threatens to Remove Moderators From Subreddits Continuing Apollo-Related Blackouts
ARS Technica: As the Reddit war rages on, community trust is the casualty
NPR: Reddit CEO Steve Huffman: 'It's time we grow up and behave like an adult company'
The full Verge interview Reddit CEO Steve Huffman isn’t backing down: our full interview
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Report from the moderators of r/blind about their latest meeting with Reddit representatives
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r/Minecraft is being forced to reopen, despite users voting to keep sub private in an admin-monitored poll
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Reddit users who tried to delete all their posts during the blackout inadvertently left behind everything inside the temporarily-private subreddits
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Let's talk about Reddit alternatives, shilling, and Tildes bans
@Deimos can tell us how many bans we've had so far on Tildes. Last count I knew was in the 50s months back, and some of those were the same person - out of 13,000 users. I'm sure it's rising right...
@Deimos can tell us how many bans we've had so far on Tildes. Last count I knew was in the 50s months back, and some of those were the same person - out of 13,000 users. I'm sure it's rising right now, I'm also pretty sure it's still under a hundred, and I don't actually care if it's 1500. (Edit: It was four new bans, omg so nazi.)
If you take the time to learn something about social forums, you'll discover that 1% of the users cause 90% of the problems. Tildes will ban that 1% aggressively. Act like an asshole, attack someone, and you will find the door. You do not however have to tiptoe around like there are landmines here - nobody is going to ban you unless you start attacking other users or trolling all the time. You are in fact allowed to swear here, just not at people. Take a lesson from Louis Black - rants are best when aimed at inanimate objects. :)
Have you ever been to a nice big social party? Did you act like an asshole there? Did the bouncer throw you off the balcony? Probably not. That's because you didn't punch people in the face, piss all over the kitchen floor, or set the living room rug on fire while you were there (I hope). Try pretending that this is a real world party and adjust your behaviors accordingly. It is really not that difficult. Extend people here the same courtesy at a minimum that you would for a real world social gathering - maybe even go as far as you would for a black tie affair. The rest of us would appreciate it, I promise.
I'm sure by now most of you know about /r/redditalternatives. It's an old subreddit that has been collecting links to anything and everything even remotely like a social site for years that came out of the 2015 blackouts. Most of their favorites are long dead, and most of the ones they love now will be dead in a few years. They've been telling us we would be dead in two months for the last five years - which tells you how much their average user knows about social software. They are not exactly well read on the topic.
They are a useful link archive, and also a place for people to whine about the bans they've earned from other websites, or to shill for their own websites. Plenty of astrotrurfing for lemmy and squabbles going on there. Some of you folks are over there right now trying to sell them on Tildes, or worrying about the complaining about the bans.
I'd advise you not to waste your time commenting in that place. They do not want us there shilling, and you will never convince a redditor of anything due to the mindfuckery that place has inflicted on its users for decades. Let them be. Everyone who gets banned here (or on most other sites) posts a thread about it over there, and always has - this is tradition now. Laugh at it, like I always do. It's Shawshank all over again - everyone in there is innocent, lawyer fucked them.
Tildes was linked in the /r/videos post, which was #1 on reddit and why Deimos has an inbox taller than mount everest today. The 'secret' is out now. You do not need to go into forum warrior mode and try to defend Tildes. That's what your instincts are telling you to do, because 'tribes' are a thing, but it's not the right course of action. I guarantee you will have a better day if you just go for a ten minute walk, right now, rather than posting on reddit.
Frankly, bettervanilla's big collection here is the only useful thing to show up in that place in years, so good on them for giving that place a purpose again.
If you do want to help out, then use your invites. It's better if you pick, rather than just emails and invite threads. You do realize if Deimos tops everyone up to 5 codes, that's almost 100k new invites available and almost 20k people who can send them out, five at a time. This place is already past the point where it can die from the evaporative cooling effect, which did in fact have us on ice for a while there, but that's over now.
Look for conversations not where people are looking for alternatives, but where people are talking about real forums, pining for the old days of the internet, deep discussions, and complaining about cat posts and low effort content. Those are the people who will thank you for telling them about Tildes. Let's not be the same spamming, astroturfing jerks that every other website has become.
Edit: I take it back, this is also a remarkable post about the fediverse's moderation problems and I wish that place had more discussions of that nature. Also, Deimos says he banned 4 people in the last week, out of thousands of new users. Clearly, we're being unreasonable. :P
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What Reddit got wrong
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Likely the last Mod post that I'll make in /r/videos. We're shutting down
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According to Reddark, ~6k of 8,800 subreddits are still dark including four of the largest seven by subscriber count
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Reddit account was banned after adding my subs to the protest
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The fediverse is already dead
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YouTube moderation bots will start issuing warnings, 24-hour bans
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Ubisoft and Riot Games announce the “Zero Harm in Comms” research project to detect harmful content in game chats
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Astronomer incorrectly suspended from Twitter by automatic moderation
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Hey Elon: Let me help you speed run the content moderation learning curve
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Yishan Wong (ex-Reddit CEO) on moderation
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Elon Musk has taken control of Twitter and fired its top executives
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Welcome to hell, Elon - Nilay Patel on Elon's Twitter acquisition
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r/Onlyfans101 mods are currently manipulating tons of NSFW subreddits
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How Twitter’s child porn problem ruined its plans for an OnlyFans competitor
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Flag mods and us (and you)
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Jordan Peterson suspended from Twitter, says it might as well be a ban: 'I won’t apologize'
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Facebook, Instagram taking down posts about US abortion pills
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Before Uvalde, a platform fails to answer kids' alarms. Tech companies keep building systems to detect violent threats. Why didn't Yubo's work?
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We should all know less about each other
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Pinterest bans climate change misinformation and conspiracy theories
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Reddit announces update to user blocking: Blocked users will no longer be able to see or interact with your content on the platform
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Reddit allows hate speech to flourish in its global forums, moderators say
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I got permanently suspended from Reddit today. Now I know what Reddit has become.
My account was permanently suspended saying I had violated TOS multiple times, not only is this wrong, my previous suspension was unfair too, but I didn't appeal because it was only 1 week long...
My account was permanently suspended saying I had violated TOS multiple times, not only is this wrong, my previous suspension was unfair too, but I didn't appeal because it was only 1 week long and I know the state of reddit moderation, I just let it go, now this is getting out of hand, what is wrong? How can an account with so much contribution be suspended unfairly without any valid reason? Something needs to be done, if this continues, it's a matter of time for Reddit to become Facebook, mark my words. Peace ☮️.
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The tyrannical mods of Stack Overflow
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Rust Moderation Team resigns
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CBC is keeping Facebook comments closed on news posts
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The lonely work of moderating Hacker News
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Evaluating the effectiveness of deplatforming as a moderation strategy on Twitter
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Vienna museums starts OnlyFans account after its TikTok is banned for posting nudes
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Twitter testing prompts on Android and iOS for 'intense' conversations
@Twitter Support: Ever want to know the vibe of a conversation before you join in? We're testing prompts on Android and iOS that give you a heads up if the convo you're about to enter could get heated or intense.This is a work in progress as we learn how to better support healthy conversation.
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High Court of Australia rules that media outlets are publishers of third-party Facebook comments
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OnlyFans will prohibit "content containing sexually-explicit conduct" (but still allow nudity) starting October 1, at the request of banking/payment providers
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Reddit has banned the misogynistic "Men Going Their Own Way" subreddits r/MGTOW and r/MGTOW2
AHS: 🦀. 🦀. 🦀. MGTOW and MGTOW2 are banned 🦀. 🦀. 🦀. SRD: r/MGTOW has been banned r/MGTOW was quarantined back in January 2020 after being cited in an FBI prosecution brief during the sentencing of...
AHS: 🦀. 🦀. 🦀. MGTOW and MGTOW2 are banned 🦀. 🦀. 🦀.
SRD: r/MGTOW has been bannedr/MGTOW was quarantined back in January 2020 after being cited in an FBI prosecution brief during the sentencing of a U.S. Coast Guard officer planning a domestic terrorist attack.
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Facebook cracks down on discussing ‘hoes’ in gardening group
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Why a YouTube chat about chess got flagged for hate speech
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Conservative social networks keep making the same mistake
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Not trying to make waves but why are articles posted to news that relate to lgbt moved?
As a new member I am really hesitant to post this but I recently posted an article to ~news that was related to lgbt issues and it was moved to ~lgbt. I fully support a sub section devoted to lgbt...
As a new member I am really hesitant to post this but I recently posted an article to ~news that was related to lgbt issues and it was moved to ~lgbt. I fully support a sub section devoted to lgbt but news should be news regardless.
Just because it has an lgbt angle does not mean it should be moved. I'm not even lgbt myself but I find it sort of hurtful that a news article was pushed off ~news. So I ask this, and once again not trying to make waves. But why?
Edit: I would love to be a member of this community as I am personally seeking a less asshole filled reddit alternative. But pushing a news article to another ~ just because it relates a bit more to them shouldn't be a thing. If you are tolerant it relates to us all. And yes I know I posted it in ~news because I was trying to participate and I'm a news junky.
Sorry.
Edit 2: This was a sad sorry way to come in to this community. I apologize.
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Reddit is about to delete a lot of subreddits based on post activity metrics
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Should Tildes have rules for healthcare advice?
Sometimes Tildes users give people healthcare advice. Sometimes that advice disagrees with the advice already given by a qualified registered healthcare professional. That might be okay if the...
Sometimes Tildes users give people healthcare advice. Sometimes that advice disagrees with the advice already given by a qualified registered healthcare professional. That might be okay if the tildes advice was compliant with national guidance, but sometimes it isn't. Sometimes it's bad, dangerous, advice.
Should Tildes have rules about this?
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Reddit faces lawsuit for failing to remove child sexual abuse material
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Is content moderation a dead end?
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Life’s a Bitche: Facebook says sorry for shutting down town’s page
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Discord will start designating entire servers as NSFW, and prevent all under-18 users from accessing them, as well as all users on iOS
27 votes