I really hoped that one of the poll choices would be to move to community over to lemmy / kbin. Voted keep dark, with Dentahrius being my second choice.
I would have loved that too, I hope they're at least considering the move to somewhere else, tho I can understand it's not easy with a community that big.
I messaged the mods during the poll and urged them to move to lemmy or kbin. They responded saying that I'm "far from the first to suggest this" and that they're thinking about it but moving an entire community of that size over is difficult. I don't think they really understood that they would never be able to move the entire community over and that's ok, since an exodus needs to begin somewhere.
But it looks like they just reopened like every other sub. Disappointing.
Hard to tell, reddit doesn't have enough manpower to mod everything, that's sure, but there are indeed bootlickers that would do anything to have a little power.
That's why I believe we, as users, have also an important part in it, we can support "our" mods, if they are forcibly removed, but spamming the subs to make reddit's mods life miserable, see how long they last lol.
Even better IMO is just quitting reddit, moving communities elsewhere, all lurkers that don't care will stay but that's ok, "we" don't need them.
Me too, but I saw the article I linked, then someone saying r/art was doing the same and r/Steam (Valve) posting only literal steam stuff (that is vapor coming out of boiling water) that I had to see for myself lol, it's hilarious and a very smart way to protest IMO.