followthewhiterabbit
“Don’t look at Jaques as if he was a human being, he comes from another planet.”
In my case, the biggest sub I help moderate has one mod who made the whole thing. From the ground-up, a great community of people, very few fights and a ton of people subscribed. It really is like a ‘model’ example of how the communities should work.
They jusy can’t understand how we’d be willing to throw it all away over a company’s stupid move. I guess in this instance, it is well over a decade of making a great place. And I can see why he feels awful.
But to me that is the only power we have…having people who will burn it down to make a stand.
I won’t be there after this month ends and my 3rd party apps go.
I’m done.
The subs I moderated have either gone dark, or are going dark in the next ciuple days.
And with that I let the mod teams I was a part of know that I am moving on. I hate what reddit did to the community, and my time feels better spent where it will be appreciated.
On two we presented the options abailable (Lemmy, Mastodon, Usnet and so on), on the biggest we didn’t do that. It was a last-minute announcement, so didn’t really have the time (also too many cooks with different recipes, so to speak).
I’m sure it won’t matter in the long run, but should we not try? A giant company runs on advertising. And the time we stop users interacting and engaging with these ads can only be a good thing.
As I’m writing this, 4,669 of 6,934 subs have gone dark.
Its beautiful to see.
What a shock to read. I love his books, his story, what he achieved and how he did it all. The world was a better and safer place with Kevin in it.
What a sad day to lose someone like that.
Am happy to submit my own photos to something along the lines of mild, or clothed, cute etc.
But the only communities I see here are explicit, and I’m not going to be submitting to these explicit instances/communities.
Does anyone know if there is a gone mild/girls-next-door etc kind’ve place?
Much appreciated.
Just flipped the switch (so to speak) on a couple subs I moderate, and the largest (just shy of 1m users) will be going dark in a few hours.
What surprised me most is how well the members are took it. To be fair the subs I moderated are typically quite tech-minded, so everyone is quite in-the-know with what is happening and why.
It makes me furious that a site built and maintained by the users is being exploited at the users’ expense.
I hope Reddit bleeds money from this silly line they drew in the sand.
Anyone else just using whatever is FOSS feom f-droid?
Of course the more apps the merrier, but personally open code = a more trustworthy use for me
Why am I not surprised?
What annoys me the most is the stance he keeps trying to project that reddit is just a a ‘poor lil company, never any profit, just a little fish’.
Hearing that he wants to bring in the ability to oust established moderators by votes?
Good luck, who wants to literally give their time and energy to this company now for free? Not me anymore.
What a sad, sad interview.