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Reddit will remove mods of private communities unless they reopen (www.theverge.com)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by lvxferre@lemmy.ml to c/snoocalypse@lemmy.ml

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A few highlights:

As usual, u/ModCodeofConduct messages outright distort the moderators' position, as if it was unwillingness to moderate.
r/firefox opened up again. It's now about literal fire foxes aka red pandas. Mods worry that the sub might [ipsis digitis] "fall into the hands of someone who would undo the good work we have done or would even foster an anti-Mozilla community here."
"ModCodeofConduct also argued that switching to private in protest is a violation of the Moderator Code of Conduct." - isn't it funny how users are expected to believe that the moderator code of conduct is more than just convenient excuses for Reddit Inc.?
roughly 2k/8k of the subreddits joining the protest are still private. Even if Reddit Inc. plants to replace the mods with sycophants, the later will likely beeline towards the larger communities. I expect the smaller ones to go unmoderated, overall reducing the platform's diversity of communities.

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[–] DominicusPurple@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (5 children)

i think what has to be done now is third party clients recommending lemmy/kbin, or even better, become lemmy/kbin clients with paid reddit functionality.

[–] lvxferre@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Yeah, even some simple public statements like "migrate" would help a lot.

AFAIK the current status quo is like this:

Sync - Sync for Lemmy is already confirmed.
Narwhal - decided to accept the abusive API prices and relay them to the subscription cost.
Apollo - Selig likely moved to other, unrelated projects. Can't blame him - I bet that this whole ruckus weathered him down.
RiF, Bacon Reader and others - I got no info.

I'm kind of hoping that Narwhal implements some sort of tiered subscription price, where the basic/cheaper software works for other platforms than Reddit, and then you need to pay a premium to use Reddit. That would hurt Reddit really bad. That's just my wish though.

[–] DominicusPurple@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

i wish apollo added this functionality. i see it a lot in discussions and it leads me to believe its one of the most (if not the most) popular third party client.

[–] lvxferre@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

There's an Apollo clone in the works, called Wefwef for Lemmy. Its browser version seems to work decently enough, but I'm doing it from a desktop so your mileage may vary.

It is not the official Apollo though. Frankly in Selig's shoes I'd do the same and say "screw all this shit - I've been lied, lied about, treated like shit, and I got to repay 250k to my former subscribers."

[–] UnanimousStargazer@feddit.nl 2 points 1 year ago

Wefwef is really good. The developers are upgrading it almost every day with new features.

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