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Why you should know: StackOverflow is facing a mod strike in a similar way as Reddit's mod strike. They are doing this in response to StackOverflow's failure to address it's promises and provide moderation tools

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[-] alertsleeper@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

I really hope protesting social media/websites owner's BS becomes a regular practice

[-] Freesoftwareenjoyer@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I agree, but on the other hand if we moved to decentralized platforms no strikes would be necessary. People only do this, because a company is holding their content as a hostage.

[-] abhibeckert@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Striking will just be replaced with defederation. For example lemmy.world has been defederated by a bunch of instances because it allows anyone to sign up for an account.

[-] Freesoftwareenjoyer@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

If stackoverflow was a Lemmy instance, I think people would just host a new one and move there?

[-] abhibeckert@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Some people might do that. But lemmy.world is a very well run community that has never done anything offensive, and yet it's still defederated by some of the biggest lemmy instances.

That proves defederation is for more than just spam/illegal content/harassment. Which isn't necessarily a bad thing, but it's pretty disruptive. Like a strike.

[-] Freesoftwareenjoyer@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I thought only beehaw.org defederated it?

[-] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, they're the one that makes you answer 3 vague open end questions and then manually approve it.

If you don't write enough, or write something they dont agree with... You dont get denied, it's just like it's still pending indefinitely.

Lemmy.world requires a valid email instead (something beehaw doesn't).

There's no right or wrong way to go about it. Which is the biggest benefit of Lemmy. Somewhere out there, there's an instance being ran like how you want, if not, just make your own.

[-] PuddingFeeling907@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Youtube needs a lot of creator strikes to get back to the way it used to be!

[-] redditsucks@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

While I agree, I think this is unlikely because unlike Reddit and StackOverflow modding, YouTube content creators rely on YouTube for their livelihoods.

[-] Freesoftwareenjoyer@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

That should give them more incentive to want to move to the fediverse. I'm sure many youtubers can afford to host their own PeerTube instance.

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