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>users revolted

tbh right now it feels like mods, and especially power-mods (who are moding several high traffic subs), are revolting. I actually enjoy this blackout because a lot of small subs became active refuge for people who doesn't really care about the whole drama. Honestly I'm curious how this will play out but I can see subs just "naturally" replacing themselves with new ones.

fyi 92 of top 500 subreddits controlled by same 5 people https://imgur.com/a/rjE8YuW as discussed here too https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23173018. And it's probably got worse in the last 2 years.

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A medium-ish video game reddit that I participate in held two votes on whether to participate, and whether to shutdown for 24 or 48 hours, and in both users overwhelmingly (95%) voted in favor of shutting down, and for 48 hours.

There is a vocal amount of non-mods who are also participating.

Also "mods" are still users of reddit. When I'm an admin of a Facebook group, I'm still a 'facebook user'.

In the subreddits I saw polls, all were in favor of the blackout.

It stands to reason that the people most inclined to see and participate in a reddit poll about protesting a reddit policy would be a self-selecting group of enthusiasts (e.g. the 1% rule[0]).

I suspect a vast majority of reddit users don't have a dog in this fight and just want to use the site.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1%25_rule

I imagine so. But when the content is also made by those 1%, what do those browsers do when acticity goes down?

That's the rub here compared to Twitter. It's not run by huge companies/content creators/personaliies providing news, but by users posting news or discussions. And if they leave, that does directly impact the content of the site, despite being a minority.

The overwhelming majority of users on most social networking sites are lurkers. Those lurkers did not vote. I would assuming the majority of users do not even know about the changes or the blackout.

I think that's ok. Without the contributing users the lurkers have nothing to lurk.

Lurkers also do not post content. But I imagine by this point most lurkers understand something is going on. Either because their favorite sub went dark, becasue it posts less content, or simply because news sites are making stories (while being posted back to reddit ofc).

Gamers aren't really normal. They're a group that is especially primed for having these big tantrums.

Completely valid. But that's a non-trivial audience of reddit.

They are the backbone of the site. Without them there is no working Reddit.

What's worse than pissing off the workers of your business is to piss off those who do all the work for free.

I'm trying to stay off Reddit in protest.

Likewise. But idk if I'll have much of a choice come June 30th when 3rd party apps get shut down. I don't really use a browser anymore to engage with reddit, and their official app has been complete garbage.

I'm fine with not providing them with content or ad views anymore if they don't want to work with 3rd party developers.

I engage with old.reddit.com in my browser a lot on my desktop. But their mobile app is just not enjoyable to me so I just won't be using Reddit on mobile anymore.

Maybe I'll build myself a nice little HTML-scrapper app for Reddit instead.

https://old.reddit.com/r/wholesome/comments/148aw58/radvicea... - https://archive.ph/3qMMA

The worm is turning and the top power-mods are going to get Caesar'd.

Is that case really a "power-mod"? The head mod was inactive for a year and then came back and shutdown a subreddit against the wishes of the active mod team.

The first test cases are always the strongest ones; watch - it will spread.

It's an obviously choreographed play and Reddit is going to win this one.

TBH, this really opens up the discussion of how a "head mod" should work. Even if I agree with the action, I don't like that someone can be inactive for months and then suddenly change course on a large community because they happened to be a mod earlier.

But I guess with the way things are going that may not be a problem to consider in the coming years.

> a lot of small subs became active refuge for people

Uff i ve been trying to find them , and also trying to make mine more active but it doesn't seem to be workign ...

Almost certain that table is out of date. I also want to say that it’s actually better now, too.

The user support has been overwhelming, as far as I can see.

Do these people have a life? Or are they paid by some social media influencer company to mold narratives?

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