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It's just Reddit centralising control to the admins, and cracking down on dissent. It's funny how much it mirrors real life instances of countries sliding into authoritarianism. But obviously this is just a website and doesn't have such severe consequences.

Huffman and the Reddit admins are scummy bastards, and all decent people should leave that platform immediately, the same as Twitter.

I get why mods care about the unique spaces they've made, like askhistorians or something. But why tf would anyone at this point give free labor to mod funny or any of the other generic monster subs? Make the pigboy police the nazis on his platform to keep advertisers happy

the defaults seem to be all bots anyway

I guess it really got under Steve Hoffman’s skin.

I think they are preparing for something god awful.

Getting rid of old.reddit I guarantee it. It's only a matter of time

i always saw a ton of people saying they'd leave reddit if they took away old.reddit but i feel like that wont happen

I was saying that. Ended up leaving ahead of schedule.

It never happens. I remember how so many people said they were gonna leave Reddit with the API nonsense. Annnnddd they're still there. lol

all the ''''protest''''' did was say 'if we dont use it for 3 days surely spez will freak out', they couldnt even boycott the site for a week lmfao. is reddit a severe addiction?

Given it was the only easy way to protest something as community moderators you bet!

All mods replaced with AI

Almost certainly this. It’s on par with what Reddit has been doing the last few years.

Wait. I just saw another post about thousands of bot accounts joining new subs. Is this to ensure "le Reddit army" can still appear active?

Interesting to see if anyone will mention Lemmy

I wonder if they censor mentions of Lemmy or if all the people that left for Lemmy are gone and no one noticed. Like, why are people still there and putting up with more of Spez's bullshit? Do they not know they can just leave?

Honestly I'm just waiting for for the other shoe to drop. This is the exploding pager before the ground offensive.

4 more...

Old.Reddit.com is next to be killed..

Let the plebs keep licking them boots...

Or they come over to fedi and start on something new...

Kinda like that time the king of England took away Massachusetts' legislatures. But I have a feeling the king here will fair better this go around.

George’s problem was that he was merely a king, and not a god

Can community owners still delete entire communities, or this action also needs approval from Reddit staff?

They were never able to delete communities.