Powermod of over 1000 subs. Permanently online. Bans users for no reason and posts inflammatory comments and pins them in threads. One example - Do you remember the r/Art drama where the artist got her art removed by a mod who said it was AI art (it was not) and berated the artist for her style? Yep, that's awkwardtheturtle.
Basically the worst of the WORST of reddit mods with no life outside of reddit.

reddit mods cant stand to lose their 'power' kek
its the only thing they have

Apparently awkward was responsible for a lot of the John Oliver spam in the subs he modded. Might be why he's finally gone now. He even contacted John Oliver on Twitter to cry about his suspension and ask for help lol See pic related

'deny the right' not sure the users had that in the first place

This is delusional on multiple levels. Reddit owns the subs. They will simply replace mods of the biggest subs, smaller subs will falter and some will be replaced by other content if reddit allows them to stay shut down.

It's funny seeing the meltdown of mods as if they're holding it all together when there are hundreds of people in line to replace them - for free. Besides if a subs content goes to shit new ones spring up. Reddit is that big.

It was a nice but meaningless statement that won’t accomplish anything except shutting down some fan favorite subs.
Normies don’t care, normies probably didn’t even know the protest was happening or why it was happening until some of their subs went dark. And last I checked comments on reddit the most upvoted are making fun of mods and their shutdown.

I mean you can do it yourself. I turned federation status off for me to get a feel for kbin, interact here and see whats on here. If I get bored I might turn it back on and see what's happening in other places.

This is good imo. Let the user decide what they want to see.

Honestly if I was an admin I'd ban politics from my instance completely lol. Have the magazine already blocked as I knew how it would turn out ¯_(ツ)_/¯

It's funny to get this upset. Reddit users turned from majority of techies to full blown normies who want to share their mundane daily life with other normies. Reddit is Facebook 2.0 for a few years now. Some niche subs were still cool, but the old reddit edgyness was gone. Everything over there is sanitized to a huge degree and there's a reason most people hate reddit mods.
The majority doesnt give a rats ass about 3rd party apps or how reddit betrayed the mods with no modtools. They want to shitpost, see memes, updoot and dont care about the reddit 'community'. The site has gotten too big for that.

At least here consolidation of subs is impossible meaning mods dont get to build little empires without recourse from the users.

imagine working for a corp for 15 years for free 💀

I thought the same thing today lol
Some /m/worldnews thread and the topics was 'Texas installs panic buttons for classrooms'...yeah nice 'world'news. I guess when your whole world is the US

Good riddance. I like the no-downvote style but overzealous mods just create their own pillow fort of the same 5 users regurgitating the same shit over and over.

They're not gonna replace all of them at once. Some admins will get assigned to work their way down the list (ranked by subscribers probably) and while this is going on I predict a lot of smaller subs are gonna falter resolving it.

People are already making separate subs so smaller ones might eventually get replaced.

They have to control what you read and it's always the same argument. 'Dogwhistle', 'Groomer', 'Nazi', 'Pedo', etc...
Funny thing is you never see this IRL and it's only the terminally online who write like this. IRL discussions are much more mellow and you can talk with people about stuff, even controversial topics and you can always drop it and be good.

Every comment in this thread you could've found on reddit and copy pasted it here. Same quality of discourse.

You know it's a good meme when people are getting mad over words

Juicy in what way? Pedo-admins like Aimee Chanellor or more vote manipulation?

I don't think any of this matters much for reddit unless spez is me-too'd or somehow nuked on a smilar level.

That's always how it works out tho. If you work for anyone you never do it as an unspoken agreement as the rules will change later on. No matter the assurances.

The loudest mods keep posting even amongst themselves when they closed 'their' subs. Check their post history. It's performative.
There's a reason reddit mods are reviled everywhere on the internet. Let them cry and piss and shit themselves. It's free entertainment

Prob the same people who remade the subs here as magazines, squatting on the name but havent made a single comment since 4 or 5 days ago.

This exact thread down to the comments could've been on reddit and no one would've noticed. It's the same rehashed arguments and discussion ad nauseum. If you don't like some instance/magazine/whatever just block it yourself and be done with it.

dont we all know since Ellen Pao that it doesnt matter what the figurehead says? its all garble garble. see what they are doing instead

Not to be diminutive to your point, but reddit discussion weren't high quality either and I have a feeling they won't be here too. They might be friendlier on here, written more 'eloquently' to give them a sheen of informedness, but unless people start from similar knowledge bases on topics, then meaningful discussion will never materialize.

I predict any technical/political topic on here will be a dumpsterfire of uninformedness just like it was on reddit. You can already see reddit-tier responses to popular topics. In the end the same few talking points will be repeated over and over again, right or wrong (mostly wrong or incomplete).

It's why I personally stay away from these completely and stick to sharing art/game stuff. It's far more sane.

Last I checked Mastodon was shrinking tho? Not talkign abotu total accs, but activity and site visits

would be interesting to see. just open up and stop modding, except once every 24 hours or so. just say you're busy IRL lol

I was the same and it's kinda sad to see people are making carbon copies of the big reddit subs here with predictable comments.

@giddy I dont think so. In my opinion mods are delusional about their level of contribution and most are sticking around you can see it yourself. The ones leaving thus far are those discontent with the content on reddit.
I also see subs open polls now for the blackout stuff and most votes are in favor of stopping the blackout and calling out mods for 'virtue signalling' and calling them tyrants.
Just to give some perspective.

Not yet it seems.

please NEVER interview mods lol unless you want some new cringe entertainment like with the antiwork mod

Try reading again. I dont get banned or complain about it.
Nice strawman. Building your own enemy how you want it.

cope

@giddy Yep, but sentiment on reddit seems to be changing a little. People are taking this as a concession and want to access their memes. Turns out the current users of reddit don't really care how they get their meme fix.

I mean reddit quality was already in freefall outside of smallish subs. It's gonna get worse quickly if those people actually leave.

@Apaulling I don't think reddit will change a thing honestly. The current main users of reddit are normies and no longer the original tech focused core. Mods are a different story, but in the end if they don't bend the knee they will be forced out and replaced. Let's not play pretend.

I checked some comment sections and the sentiment seems to have shifted a lot from overt support to criticism and calling mods hostage takers.

Huffman characterized the Reddit protesters as a small but vocal cadre of angry users who are not in touch with the greater Reddit community.

Although I guess people on here don't want to hear this, he's right on that one. Price to pay with the normiefication of reddit. No more community. Only consumers.

tbh the culture here is reddit in its purest form right now. once they start sanitizing everything here again I'm out. One opinion allowed ONLY and if you dont align you're a NAZI and FAR RIGHT TROLL

Perfect. 'Downvote' me too so you can really show it to me how WRONG I am.

If you want to see what happens if this culture permeates here just look at Mastodon. Negative growth, barely any interaction and it's the same few people shouting into the void. I checked some mutuals who proudly announced they'd move to Mastodon and most haven't posted anything this year. Still posting regularly on Twitter tho :clownface:
A lot of users here are the same, 'move' here to show they're protesting and then stop posting in a few weeks or months and back to reddit.
Some clown mod made over 50 magazines/subs on kbin. Hasnt posted 1 comment since a little over a week. Bio reads: 'Proud owner of xxx communities.' lol

If there is no unique culture/point to this platform and it's just reddit 2.0 then people will simply go back to reddit.