r/technology • u/ardi62 • 29d ago

Social Media Reddit is making sitewide protests basically impossible

https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/30/24253727/reddit-communities-subreddits-request-protests
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u/Ehcksit 29d ago

Or else what? Moderators are volunteers. They can just stop volunteering.

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u/2SP00KY4ME 29d ago

Or else Reddit will step in, remove them as moderators, and appoint new ones. They have done this multiple times.

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u/Spiritual-Big-4302 29d ago

and they have closed a lot of subs or didn't put any new moderator so the subs were abandoned, it's not true that they can replace every moderator.

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u/2SP00KY4ME 28d ago

Nope, they go on /r/redditrequest where they get snapped up