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/r/AccidentalRenaissance moderators have all resigned. The subreddit has permanently shut down and moved to Lemmy.

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From the very start, ever subreddit should have challenged Reddit and called their bluff. Go ahead, replace the mods for thousands of subreddits. If a few dozen are changed, that's no problem. Whatever. But thousands? Good luck.

The whole protest seemed so half-hearted from the start. You don't go on strike with a set end-date in mind. You go on strike indefinitely until demands are met or a satisfactory compromise is made.

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Reddit kills awards and coins

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Each fiscal quarter, companies want to make more and more profit. If they aren't making more profit, they see it as a failure.

Eventually, a point is reached where you can't raise the price of your product or service any more without people leaving. You're draining your customers for everything they have, but you're still just barely beating out last quarter's profits.

So in desparation, you need to do whatever you can to see profits this quarter. Drop that feature, fire this team, and you've just barely beat last quarter. Phew.

But now we have this quarter to worry about, and we've burned a bit of goodwill with our consumers by removing that feature, and we're short-staffed because we laid off all these people.

And the cycle repeats, trading in long term longevity for short-term profits.

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Literally, it means no mods.

But sometimes performance mods are allowed.

Or sometimes certain launchers are allowed.

Sometimes texture packs aren't.

Or shaders are.

Or playing with keepInventory on or doFireTick off isn't.

I have no goddamn clue anymore.