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Reddit Blackout was just mods choosing to be a personal army for app developer (lemmy.world)
submitted 5 months ago by QuantumSpecter@lemmy.world to c/unpopularopinion@lemmy.world
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In my opinion, the Reddit Blackout was essentially moderators acting as a personal army for app developer.

Even goes the ancient rules of redditquitte

Ask people to Troll others on Reddit, in real life, or on other blogs/sites. We aren't your personal army.

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[-] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 2 points 5 months ago

Reddit never offered a chance for apps to pay; this became very clear during negotiations.

Mods left because a lot of moderator tools developed by moderators requires API access and Reddit was very slow to develop acceptable internal tools. At that point, a lot of mods got frustrated and left.

[-] QuantumSpecter@lemmy.world -3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

The vast majority of mods, including the organisers of blackout, are still using Reddit.

here is list of organisers of blackout taken from Moderator Coordination subreddit.

  • Femilip - active
  • Buckrowdy - active
  • TheSebtacular - inactive
  • LustyLizardLady - active
  • demmian - active
  • LunarOlympian - inactive
  • esoterix_luke - active
  • SpicyThunder335 - active
  • YourResidentFeral - active

So 77% are still active.

[-] MorrisonMotel6@lemm.ee 5 points 5 months ago

You might be right, but I moderated three subs and haven't been back since June (or whenever it was they killed my app)

[-] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 3 points 5 months ago

I didn't say all mods.

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