this post was submitted on 07 Jul 2023
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When forced to make a choice between power or their principles, Reddit moderators are overwhelmingly choosing to abandon the latter.
I wish people would take a more subtle approach. Have a pinned post saying that mods have moved the community to the lemmy one with the link, and have a bot reply to new posts saying the community has shifted and how to post there with a few linked resources. I've seen this strategy used successfully in many subreddits to get people to discord or some other platform.
I remember when the female dating strategy sub did this rather successfully.
They were about to get banned anyway for the incel-like behaviour and took it upon themselves to switch platforms.
Peak irony if we use their strategy too :)
Ribbit
Are they really? They dedicate their free time to give reddit their power. Reddit is now yelling at them to give power back to themselves despiteb years of saying the opposite.
I thought people on the Fediverse would be more appreciative of people doing volunteer work to maintain online communities but seems like a lot of users only think of mods when they get moderated or banned, not when the community is healthy and free from garbage.
The minor power trip seems to be the only reason a large number became mods to begin with.
It is rather short-sighted. There is no way Reddit could easily replace all of the moderators, and it would be chaos if they removed all of them at once, but Reddit threatening them works because they know they're scared of losing control of their communities.
Don’t you see? It could put the community at risk!!
Reddit mods are so sad.