To all the folks saying that reddit couldn't replace the mods, that it was too big an effort, that they couldn't run a big sub all by themselves, I have only one thing to say to you.

You were right.

kbin is newer and less polished. But yeah I personally recommend kbin over lemmy for exactly the reasons you posted.

The mod team on r/worldpolitics didn't want to moderate properly and so folks tries to post anime pics and eventually the sub became dedicated to anime.

As part of the joke those folks also made r/anime_titties which ended up becoming the moderated sub to talk about world politics.

TIHI was a fairly large sub, with almost multimilion level of subscribers. If reddit wanted to increase traffic and get more eyes on ads, they're doing quite a terrible job of it so far.

Again, not a surprise. Totally awful, outrageous, and immoral.

But sadly, par for the course. The mods should allow a vote to move to the fediverse, and leave the sub permanently private in that case.

Or if reddit won't give them the chance to vote, just do it anyways. Like the admins just do what they want, so turnabout is fair play, amirte?

Also, specific to the role of Speaker, he’s disqualified due to having been indicted of felonies with a term of more than two years.

About nine months ago - it's from CMX Summit 2022, so either 14 or 15 of September 2022.

Brilliant work by that team! Either reddit has to violate its own rules (which sadly they can, by deleting all NSFW content and removing the flag), or let the mods go.

And if they let the mods go, other giant subs can do the same thing in order to safely go NSFW.

That’s the thing they’re already stopped trying to justify. Why bother with that when you can lock a mod out of their mod account?

Well, consider how some subs have changed to be about John Oliver. Many who stayed are still trying to fight the good fight for us.

But it's up to us to build good communities here, so when reddit inevitably flexes its muscle and starts steamrolling, those mods will have a place to flee to. The best way to help the mods out now is to build a good alternative for them.

Oops. To clarify, these are anonymous posts on teamblind dot com, not on reddit itself. Then someone on r/ModCoord reposted this there.

The reddit thing was even described as a "hack" to google search iirc

Welcome aboard! Glad to have you here!

Also, eff spez!

I have a very bad feeling about this.

I have a feeling that it will really go like this:

A: So here's our feedback as admins to you, the mods, on how you've been running the subs.

M: Actually, we'd like to say ..

A: No, your feedback for us is that you're happy and we're doing great listening to you.

M: Actually, that's kinda the opp...

A: No, that's definitely YOUR feedback to US.

M: DON'T TELL ME HOW TO FEEL.

A: Goodbye, ex-mod.

Thank you @ernest for all you do and all you have done!

Absolutely do not want to see you run yourself into the ground over kbin matters, your family and your health come first.

I don't question your judgement, but I think the "step down" bit is a bit extreme, even if you fail to meet the deadline. Worst case, maybe let the community appoint a second-in-command temporarily to get some things moving along while you take a well deserved break?

Good on that mod for standing up to reddit! An inspiration to us all.

One thing Reddit did right was that it kept your content. Even if you were permanently suspended, you could go in and view your posts. This differs from, e.g., Google where you see people lose all their life's memories because they got locked out of their account.

I imagine that there are many people who don't even have a Reddit account, but casually browse it just because there's so much info in there.

But the users own that content, not Reddit. The best thing to do is to migrate by deleting your content from Reddit and moving it elsewhere. Once a critical mass of content is lost, Reddit's value drops tremendously.

Who would care when Reddit admins take over and forcibly reopen r/iPhone, if there are no posts left in the subreddit?

Talk about out of touch.

"the amount of time people spent on the Reddit website by close to 16% between June 12 and 13" - what does that mean?

In the article, the full sentence is,

That "blackout" movement, which briefly caused Reddit to go down, dropped daily traffic by about 7% and the amount of time people spent on the Reddit website by close to 16% between June 12 and 13, according to the data shared by web traffic analysis firm Similarweb.

So basically the amount of time people spent on reddit dropped 16% between June 12 and June 13.

"Web traffic of the platform also declined to about 52 million" - 52 million ?

Yeah that could be worded better. No units. Resumably it's about the number of visits.

Again, the full sentence is,

Web traffic of the platform also declined to about 52 million on June 13, compared with averaging nearly 56 million in the days prior.

So a 4 million drop in number of visits.

Teddit link to avoid paying for reddit ads: https://teddit.adminforge.de/r/ModCoord/comments/14kn2fo/call_to_action_renewed_protests_starting_on_july/