From Mastodon https://toot.cat/@dredmorbius/110588848407336816
First they came for /r/pics … now Reddit are coming for the individual personal subreddits
Quite some years ago I’d realised that amongst the problems with using Reddit as a personal blogging space (my avatar here is a relic of that, if you’d not put the two together) was that I do not in fact have any permanent claim to that space.
Reddit’s previous policies of moderator re-assignment bothered me. The policies apparently instituted September 2022 and being rolled out aggressively in recent days … have not weakened my concerns.
And, checking in now, I find a day-old modmail to /r/dredmorbius, a subreddit which only ever was my own personal posts with comments from a few friends, and about 1,000 subscribers … has received a notice to reclaim by /u/Modcodeofconduct, screenshot attached here.
I have not abandoned the sub. I had closed it in protest of Reddit’s continued failings and war against its volunteer moderators and general community.
And I will not go quietly.
#Reddit #FuckReddit #ModCodeOfConduct #RedditStrike #RedditBlackout
It’d be hilarious to see them try to hand your own personal page to a random other person to moderate. It makes no sense
you’d think with the recent news they’d be more cautious about sinking to such depths
I was thinking a slow, wheezing, gasping, flailing scramble as they try to figure out how to deal with the deluge of bots previously handled by mods.
I signed on here at Lemmy.world on the eve of the blackout. I haven’t been using Reddit since and I couldn’t be happier about it.
I will say, that while I like Lemmy (despite its bugs and all that), it severely lacks stupid GIFs and videos, from interestingasfuck, damnthatsinteresting, PublicFreakout, aww, etc.
Maybe that’ll come, but I doubt it.
i actually find the lack of moving stuff refreshing. All the platforms are moving to short addictive video. Reddit wasn’t like this in the beginning, either.
Well, the great thing about the fediverse is you can actually block out things you don’t like, permanently, unlike on Reddit.
I think more content the better, generally speaking. Of course there’s communities I’ve already blocked from my feed even with the little available currently.
As shit as it is, they probably just made a tool to mass send this notice to any sub privated within the last X days. I doubt they’ll follow up with action on a tiny sub.
This happened to my ~770 people subreddit r/ntfy too. They really lost their marbles, didn’t they? I turned it back to “Public” out of fear that they’ll delete my Reddit account. I fear even “Restricted” won’t stop them. So instead, I’ll manually delete or lock new posts and direct them to the Lemmy instance. I may assign another dummy mod account too and unassign myself. Maybe that’ll give me a way to close the sub in the future.
Ha. I guess thinking ahead is my trade :-) I’m a Principal Engineer, and much of my job is to think about how a software architecture will look in a few months or a year from now. I often say “It’s very lonely living in the future all the time”, because people usually think about their current project and current task, not what’s ahead of them that far out.
Sorry, I ramble. :-)
Manually deleting posts leads to them reinstating them (I think they set it up botstyle to reinstate posts from subs where mods have been warned). Editing your posts to directing to Lemmy instances leads you to being given a warning, your post being reinstated from earlier versions and then you’re kicked off of your own sub and get a shadow ban alternatively 7 day lockout.
Off-topic, but I love ntfy! It’s super easy to use to send notifications from a script or program anywhere
