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Just logged into reddit, from Canada, it's not working correctly. I suspect so many subs going dark have unveiled a bug that has broken some algorithms. Here's hoping they are a pain to fix and require a significant reengineering effort. Anyone confirm the same behavior?

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[โ€“] bradv@lemmy.ca 62 points 1 year ago (2 children)

"Server maintenance" while they replace all the mods with scabs.

[โ€“] MonkCanatella@lemmy.world 31 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Like the antiwork fiasco. I remember the astroturfing going on where they tried to move people over to "work reform" aka we like work and bosses are good!

[โ€“] BlankSix@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If it is deliberate, I'm pretty sure that'd be a call-our-bluff sort of situation and they'd end up with a longer blackout as a result, at least until the majority of participating mods are replaced/banned.

I'd assumed a minor reverse-reddit-hug, personally - there are a lot of news stories on this today with a lot of links to reddit. Either way, a day in and I'm here and kinda loving it, despite it being a bit ... wonky on posting today with all us refugees.

[โ€“] kommanditbolag@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's like... 28,000 mods. I don't know how they're gonna replace them. Of course they won't have to replace all of them, but there's still quite a sizeable lot.

[โ€“] Ego@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Every mod is just AwkwardTurtle on a throwaway account.

[โ€“] BlankSix@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

lol. Yeah no y'all aren't wrong by any stretch, and I doubt they'd really get rid of a lot of those power mods but the smaller subs? Sure. Also, give one of the regular people power-modding power and they could, theoretically, have normal function resuming inside a week. It'd still be a huge mess, though.

Either way, I'm sure there's an admin script available to mass-remove or ban, though that'd be a really drastic move on their part. The bluff call's far more likely. Be interesting to see what they do regarding the large subs and their mods, though.