Reddit @lemmy.ml Nankeru @feddit.de 1y ago

r/iPhone will be going private indefinitely (3.82 mil subscribers) - joining r/videos and many other subreddits

old.reddit.com UPDATE: In less than 24 hours, /r/iPhone will be going private indefinitely.

***Update to our post from a couple hours ago announcing our immediate shut down of posting.*** Hi everyone, We apologise for the back and forth...

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Originally, the protest was planned to be 48 hours. However, after a shambolic AMA held by Reddit's CEO, it has become clear to us that Reddit doesn't intend to act in good faith. When the CEO is willing to lie and spread libellous claims about another third-party developer, and then try double down by vilifying them, again, in an AMA, despite being proven as a liar by the developer through audio recordings, that's when we knew what we were up against. Therefore, the subreddit will be privatised until such time as a reasonable resolution is proposed.

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I wonder how long it takes until admins take over the communities
- I have a feeling all of the default subs will be taken over pretty quickly. The small subs will be forgotten about.
  
  I don't think the subs should go private, but rather they should just get straight-up abandoned. The admins will have a much harder time dealing with all the unmoderated content that will inevitably show up, and it will look way worse to advertisers.
  
  That's what I expect to happen as well. Nothing stops them from kicking out the current mods / admins, replacing them with new mods willing to take over and continue as before (or even use AI moderation tools to minimize the efforts).
wish more would go out indefinitely, this is great
Won’t matter. Based on recent behavior I’d expect any reasonably large sub to be forcibly reopened by the admins after a couple days. If the current mods won’t cooperate then they’ll be replaced by the hordes who want to go on a power-trip.
- This scenario has happened before, has it not? Why would anyone expect that Reddit will respond differently this time and walk back their plans?
  
  That doesn't mean though that we ,as a community ,shouldn't try and change them .
- We should all act like power-trip addicts and ask Reddit to make us the new mods. And then when they do that we just black out the subs again.
Damn it's all crashing down isn't it. I honestly see most of the subs enthusiastic toward the blackout going this way
This is great! But the problem is they're probably just going to replace the admins/mods w/e they're called that control the subreddit and just open it up again...
- There was some mods discussing this on Tildes, and the mods seemed to think that replacing them wouldn't be as easy as people make it out to be. Mods apparently have a wealth of institutional knowledge that is required due to the lackluster default mod suite, and apparently the admins rely on them to come up with their own solutions to issues. Replacing the mods sounds like it will reduce the quality of the content but also will be a big headache for any new mods to jump in. Reddit may not give a shit and they may think it won't significantly affect investor interest, but I wonder if us regular users will notice a difference. Hell, there's already been a difference over the past 10 years.
  
  You think reddit cares about that?
  
  The title says /r/iPhone has almost 4 million subscribers, they'll find replacement mods in the blink of an eye.
  
  But it will still hurt them, immensely. All these people on lemmy are proof of that, moderation quality on reddit will also go down and the site's reputation will be permanently tarnished.
  
  Millionaires are not qualified to run social media websites.
  
  I think thats naive..they will be replaced it just might not be well.
  
  Mods if you see this, nuke the sub on the way out. Remove all older posts if you can
  
  It's mostly just creative automod rules, it's not that big a deal and plenty of users would come up with solutions in short order.
Reddit CEO and his other gangsters don't even care ... it's nice though that everyone's protesting on Reddit, I love that! Sad truth is just that they don't really care, least everyone can do is leave the platform but that's not going to happen. Also, I truly don't understand why they don't move here?
- I rather like it here tbh. It has more of that old school forum-y feel to it and while the concept of the fediverse was strange and confusing, just a couple days of wandering around and clicking the things made me a lot more comfortable. I don’t foresee going back to Reddit, personally.
- The learning curve is definitely steeper here, which will be a barrier to a lot of the most casual users.
  
  but if Apollo would be ported to Lemmy, would that make it simpler?
- This is the inevitable problem that pushed me to Lemmy. Even if we win this battle over 3rd party apps, we'll lose the war because Reddit Admins hold all the cards.
The only way Reddit can change if majority/ all of the unpaid mods completely stop moderating.

This will be bigger than less quality contents as without moderation Reddit will be bigger cesspool than it is now.

And once that happens, common users will stop using Reddit and thus slowly killing it like Tumblr or Digg.

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