Mods went basically hands off, the only things they would moderate are things that broke site-wide rules like child pornography. Anything else at all was fair game. It was a pretty good view of what unmoderated reddit would look like.

After the usual threats, mods didn’t budge so were removed by admins I believe. Last I heard the place was still an unmoderated glorious trash fire.

That’s all on Twitter really. Twitter shot themselves in their one remaining good foot just as Threads was releasing, Meta couldn’t have paid for better timing.

All Twitter had to do to make Threads a pretty ineffectual launch was…nothing. They couldn’t manage that though.

I remember a sub did that, I think they had a 12 hour approval window. I forget which one, but I think reddit already came down on them.

FInding willing scabs wouldn’t be hard, finding willing competent ones would be.

Small niche subs would probably be fine, but any of the big megasubs would be a trashfire. It’s why I wish every sub did what Interestingasfuck did. They showed exactly what the sub would look like unmoderated and stuck to it.

Honest question, why keep quiet? I assume they are aware of the shit that went down in Reddit, if you provide Lemmy as an alternative some may actually try it and end up liking it more. The more people swap over the more it becomes an attractive alternative for others.

You don’t have to be obnoxious about it, but just a suggestion could interest them.

They’re probably right, depressingly.

I can’t make anyone else leave, but I did what I could by leaving personally. I am generally enjoying the experience over here more anyway, so I am not missing a whole lot. Maybe a couple niche subs, but I was considering working on launching equivalent communities over here.

Their tools are just not up to keep track of all these things.

If only someone developed some third-party tools that could better help them with their job…

Of all the assorted protests I saw, I liked what interestingasfuck did the most. Just said “f it, here is what subs will look like with the bare minimum modding” and walked away. Mess up their front page, their advertising, and actually show what an unmodded major reddit sub would look like.

If every sub had done that instead of some milquetoast 48 hour blackout, I think it would have been at least moderately more impactful.

They can’t delete it as far as I am aware. They could delete all posts and perma-private it I think, but that would be extremely tedious and the admins could revert everything a lot easier.

When you’re working within their frameworks, effective protests are limited. It’s why I just left.