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I used to moderate a lot of large subreddits back in the day, and don't understand why the mods don't just shut them down indefinitely, until reddit capitulates.

What, I won't be doing a bunch of free labor for a multimillion dollar company while being called a dictator all day? Yes please!

Reddit would probably have to step in and start removing moderators, digging their hole even deeper.

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Depending on the outcome of the AMA with spez tomorrow [1], and how much it ends up inflaming the situation, that may well happen.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/144ho2x/join_our_ce...

Oh wow, I didn't know about an AMA. I need to get some popcorn.

I saw rumblings about the AMA maybe beating the most downvoted "Pride and accomplishment" comment. Thinking of that I just yesterday got Diablo 4 and realized just how normalized always online, microtransactiony BS has become. Maybe Reddit too will not so slowly boil the frog.

They're going to dodge everything. That "AMA" will be nothing more than a PR-fest of non-answers and dancing akin to one tech CEO or another in congressional testimony.

Well, one part of the subreddits say they'll be closed for 24 or 48 hours, others have said they'll be closed until this has been resolved.

Likewise, several major apps (I know of Apollo and RIF) will shut down on the 30th, before the API changes take effect. I'm sure some people will relent and use the official app / website after that, but others will just quit.

I'm not sure yet myself, it'll suddenly make a big gap in my idle mode browsing. I'm sure there'll be other things I can get on with though.

I deleted the Reddit app a few months ago because the comments are a hivemind and it was annoying me, but TikTok seems to scratch the reddit itch without the annoyances.

HN is as much of a hivemind as reddit.

It really isn't. I have a lot of contrarian opinions, and HN doesn't dismiss them as quickly, and there are more people that will engage in reasoned debate with them.

HN is a western status quo community. There isn’t much intersectionalism or dissenting ideas. I do see people say what you’re saying, but without giving any guidelines or examples of contrarian opinions that do not get dismissed.

From my perspective, the HN you’re describing is equivalent to tech, IT, startup, VC sort of subreddits. Obviously HN has broad news too but the Overton window and acceptable dialogue of HN is limited to how those sorts of subreddits are.

Sure, but it's better than reddit.

Because they like the visibility and the power, they're just as addicted as the users of the subreddits but to a different thing.

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