Reddit To Moderators: Your Subreddits Will Not Stay Private
Steve Huffman is clearly desperate as he’s now made it clear that subreddits that are set to private are going to reopen their communities this week:
The company has given moderators deadlines to lay out their plans for reopening but said that they can’t stay closed. The timeframes given generally indicate a deadline of sometime Thursday afternoon. Reddit was vague about the exact repercussions but seemed to suggest this was the final warning stage. “This community remaining closed to its [millions of] members cannot continue” beyond a the deadline, the admin (Reddit employee) account ModCodeofConduct wrote in a note to one of the biggest Reddit communities that’s still private.
I am guessing that the API protests have hurt Huffman and company. Thus they’re going to the nuclear option. Seeing as Minecraft has ditched Reddit, that’s not a smart plan as this move will push more people and communities to abandon Reddit. And then what will Huffman do? I seriously think that he believes that he can bend the will of others. But that’s not the case. And he’s going to find out soon enough.
June 29, 2023 at 1:32 pm
I has used reddit as a go to social media, it was / is the only professional feed of most out there.
How while I’m not opposed the an organized, diplomatic protest, BUT, honestly this has gotten WAY out of hand.. this whole {NSWF}, has just gotten out of hand.
Like people, get over it, If these third party app are so important then bail, go of your federated “lemmy” and I’ve looked and man you have a ways to go.
I made a post similar to this in one of the the sssub-reddits “I USED TH TO FOLLOW”, and was told that they intended to disrupt, normal users, because “THAT’S THE WAY PROTESTS WORK”. maybe so but I’m a handicapped senior, 40 yrs senior systems administrator, and Ive never seen this lack of respect on an online community.
So is reddit forces the communities open, and un-mods moderators then so be it, at this point, I have had enough. you have made your point, now get on with your life, what ever that is…
Come, go, stay, I don’t care and there is a silent majority that will agree, accept your losses, go old school, use wat too are supplied and do the work ‘STOP BEING LAZY’ do what i do write a script, to do your work, BOT’s really…