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I mean, yes, ofc they are going to eventually do this. The team at Reddit isn't going to just let their popular subreddits shutdown indefinitely. They just kick the mods out, moderate themselves or bring some other scabs in to do it.

I think it's the very problem of Reddit. Too much power at the top in a centralized way and too much power to mods of large subreddits with....more subscribers than countries have population.

I think the fediverse is just more the answer top to bottom for more community control.

Union busting 101 - claiming the organizers are lazy and trying to skirt work and fire them asap

They already removed some mods, it's not a threat it's Spaz being a jerk and awful person.

"we will not force communities to reopen"

But

"we will invite new, active moderators to keep these spaces open and accessible to users"

Why can't "the community" just make another subreddit and then pick it up from there? Oh right, because they want to sell our data.

The least they could do is make it less obvious who they will replace the mods with. I expect this kind of blatant takeover attitude from a place with less legal department. Like twitter.

What we need to do is work with Reddit mods on niche / civil subs to encourage their user base to move here before reddit starts using scabs / censoring content

@bird Expected. They own the website, they do what they want.

the fuckening just doesnt stop. u/Spez lost complete touch with the platform itself.

But hey, they own the joint. they can make their own decisions.

Goodbye Reddit.

Guess it's time to back up certain subreddits off of Reddit and then perhaps... delete them entirely? If it isn't hosted on Reddit anymore, Reddit can't do anything about it.

This would be a job for some data hoarders, though.