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Back again with a public service announcement of sorts. Some enterprising soul is streaming from Twitch with a ticker showing which Reddit subs have gone dark - as of right now it is 8472 of the biggest 8838. I think the company is going to notice that, as are their prospective investors...
Agreed, but only if they stay dark. If they come back after a prescribed time, it doesn't change anything. Reddit will call their bluff, I think.
A further PSA - it looks like Reddit are removing mods from some of the popular subs and replacing them with staffers. OK, you might say, but this has serious implications for r/Freemasonry because it implies that they were deadly serious when they said they would remove API access to the apps/mod tools developed by third parties unless devs were willing to pay a king's ransom.
I used to have a 12+ year old account (which I deleted a while ago because I had doxxed myself repeatedly over the years, which was problematic given my day job) and on that account I chatted to the mods infrequently. You know you occasionally see posts from 'very angry conspiracy theorist #1' and 'Illuminati scammer #2'? That's because they've somehow escaped the third party tools that auto-remove and auto-ban 99% of that stuff before we even see it, and it's likely that none of those tools will be available from next month. What that means is that the sub will effectively become an ungovernable space very quickly indeed, because even if they are working on it full-time the mods will be overwhelmed given the very rudimentary moderation tools offered by Reddit themselves. You can imagine how bad that's going to get for the bigger subs when the mods jump/are pushed...
It's beginning to look increasingly like this community is going to be the new home for discussion about the Craft.
So they definitely doubled down on their implosion. I really liked Reddit, but I'm beginning to really like Lemmy also. Watching it grow and expand is like watching the internet get rebuilt to what it used to be, and should have always been.