Does that mean they're unmoderated now? r/worldpolotics here we come!

It’s depressing that I’m not surprised one bit. At this point, I don’t even think it’s worth sticking around until 3PA shut down on the 30th.

this is how reddit dies. not with a whimper, but with a greedy CEO.

get fucked spez!

Lemmy should make itself as much like Reddit as it possibly can except for the small handful of money-grubbing cunts who'd rather destroy communities than allow them to exist without profiting from them.

That's why we desperately need downvoting, making fake stories sink to the bottom.

my 2 'cents

This is informative and unfortunate.

I'm quite happy here now. Given up on reddit. The day Apollo's API key is deleted is the day I edit all of my comments and give up on the platform completely. It's strange I how feel no regret over saying that. It's just the way it's going to be.

It'll just lead to a general decline in sub quality.

I was looking at the reddit protest stream when it happened. Since it only says it reopened, i was a bit sad that such a huge sub would withdraw their desicion.

This makes more sense, and its awful.

Greedy people fuckin' nice things up. Nothing new under the sun.

This is what we call scab behavior, Kids do not be like this mod, do not be a scabb, if you see a picket line do not cross it. If everyone else is striking join your fellows and strike with them.

This is amazing. So many of reddit's problems I've heard described in terms of the ultimate root issue that the site can never ever violate a mod's god-given constitutional right to keep the subreddit they've started and planted their flag on. So if the mod of /r/news hypothetically just stopped moderating and let the subreddit fall apart and become full of racist shitposts, there's nothing that could be done -- everyone should just move to another subreddit, and all the newbies typing /r/news and ending up in a defunct shithole should just figure it out for themselves. This is how you got many of those /r/truexxxxx subreddits. A subreddit was not a democracy, the mod owned it. Even if the whole community wanted something, their will was insignificant before this prime directive.

I always thought this was a strange hill to die on. But seeing reddit say "oh... now that it's inconvenient to us personally, that's a different story"... wow

Reddit? Are they new? Never heard of it 🤣 Probably won't get very big

They did the same thing to admins of other major subreddits even before the blackout. They also removed initial posts regarding it on major subreddits. Thats why I chose to leave.

I saw a lot of people predicting this before the blackout. I expect a lot of the mods will refuse to moderate.

Apparently, a heck of a lost of drama involving this.

Link to reddit for those who wants to give traffic to reddit - https://old.reddit.com/r/wholesome/comments/148aw58/radviceanimals_just_had_the_top_mods_permissions/

I wonder if they saw a bunch of traffic trying to access advice animals and decided it was a good testing grounds for removing mods.

Clickable link: https://i.imgur.com/I7G25aL.png