just so this doesn’t overwhelm our front page too much, i think now’s a good time to start consolidating discussions. existing threads will be kept up, but unless a big update comes let’s try to keep what’s happening in this thread instead of across 10.

developments to this point:

The Verge is on it as usual, also–here’s their latest coverage (h/t @[email protected]):

other media coverage:

  • myk@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    2 years ago

    The active mod team of r/videos (nearly 27M subscribers) has agreed that their shutdown will now be permanent. https://reddit.com/r/videos/comments/145vns0/the_future_of_rvideos/

    In a tildes post (I’m riding a lot of horses right now) one of the mods said:

    I know this is likely a symbolic gesture because I’m fairly confident reddit will just kick us out and bring the subreddit back up, but after being on the mod team for over a decade its going to be interesting to see how things even function if they decide to take that route.

    [Edit: just seen that’s there’s a top level post on this too]

    • lynny@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 years ago

      No way Reddit is going to be able to replace so many mods on so many subs that deal with so many millions of users. They can try, but that doesn’t mean it will work.

      • Klinkertinlegs@beehaw.orgEnglish
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        2 years ago

        They rely on the free labor of the community mods. They can’t handle that workload. They’d have to replace those mods with other free mods without the years of experience, or mods with experience that will suck up to Reddit to keep their unpaid job.

        Either way, I predict it will end in fireworks.

        • sotolf@beehaw.orgEnglish
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          2 years ago

          Also they don’t have the language skills, I’d be serously impressed if they managed to scrunge up employees with the language and culture skills for many subs.

      • Mortuum@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 years ago

        Apparently they’ll be laying off about 90 workers (5%) whilst also lowering the amount of people they will hire. So, less staff to begin with. Less mods. It’s going to be a shitshow. The admins don’t even deal with moderation, really. Reporting is outsourced to their “Anti Evil Operations” team. So wtf are they going to do? I can’t wait to see the downfall.

        At this point, after that poor excuse of an AMA, their reputation is tanked.

        • JackFromWisconsin@midwest.socialEnglish
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          2 years ago

          They’ll appoint new mods. New mods that don’t have any experience or any professionalism. New mods that may not even be the age of majority yet. It’s a dumpster fire waiting to happen.

      • myk@beehaw.orgEnglish
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        2 years ago

        Yes I was totally blown away when I saw how large that sub is. It’s incredible to see Reddit losing people with that much experience of managing and growing massive communities, but the board’s focus right is only on selling existing content to AI bros so they probably don’t care that much at the moment.

        • Code_a@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          2 years ago

          That’s why it’s important for normal users who leave the site to delete their comments and submission too.