Given Reddit's past unreasonableness, I wouldn't be surprised if this otherwise reasonable explanation has an alternative motive.

True, but Reddit let this problem fester for a long time.

What's interesting to me here regarding this, is Reddits current preparation timescale. This isn't going to be enforced until March 31st, 2026. This tells me that Reddit would have been unprepared for a complete mass-walkout of community moderators during the 2023 Reddit API strikes. A large chunk of Reddit during that period was genuinely inaccessible. But after a few token gestures and a few examples made of some especially rebellious mod-teams, most of the striking moderators returned.

A huge opportunity was missed by people running major communities to functionally degrade Reddit in at least the medium-term as a website. You can't just hastily promote random people to replace moderators Reddit is either forced to remove or who leave voluntarily. The average person is likely too lazy, too arbitrary and too corrupt to effectively oversee communities of notable sizes.

That was my reaction too. I don’t feel like digging in to see if it’s actually bad though. Not gonna affect my life.

We all presume that being the mod of several large reddit communities doesn't include the possibility of sidehustle financial benefits.

Yet, humans are innovators of corruption! And I can only assume that any multi-mega-subreddit moderator has worked out something to make what is obviously a full time job worth their time.

The problem with powermod isn't that they exist, though. Moderation of a large sub is still done by volunteers that have had to hack solutions together because they don't get a lot of support from Reddit. It helps Reddit to have experienced mods overseeing several subs because they bring with them experience on how to handle high profile and large scale moderation efforts. They are a technical talent pool that Reddit relies upon a lot.

The problem is that Reddit has shitty mod governance. It still uses rank by add date and offers no ability for users to kick a mod out except for TOS faults. Reddit doesn't want to fix mod governance issues because it creates a legitimate mod power structure and Reddit doesn't want to give that much power to users, including mods.

That said, Reddit's shitty mod governance was copied directly to Lemmy.

It could be viewed as reasonable if viewed alone. I think that its fine and could make a lot of sense for control over their platform.

The history of reddit sheds a different context in my mind though. Mods are volunteers. Subreddits were established to moderate themselves, implementing nuanced rules for their specific topics that might differ from other subs that need completely different rules and approaches. Its part of what made reddit unique compared to alternate sites.

Then they made moderating much more difficult by eliminating third party apps. Then they started implementing their plans to take the platform where they wanted it, which is fine because its their platform, but they wanted all their mods to do a bunch of work and in a certain manner to make it so. Very demanding on free labor.

So there's mods still around and they want to restrict them more? Who knows, maybe that's a great idea but they made the mess they're in. This decision isn't a single on on its own, its part of a stack of them.

Yes, but they are also doing this to deleverage their mods and consolidate censorship power with coporate

reddit might want AI to control some of the subs, dont you think?

It would have made sense if done years ago. Doing it now is suspicious.

This was desperately needed.

But I'm not convinced they aren't just going to make alts.

Me literally every time my friends start bitching about Instagram.

What's the second logo?

lol can confirm

Can confirm. You can have the mildest takes and still get permbanned.

Did you know, that saying Neo-Nazis should be named and shamed is a permbannable offense?

Reddit is becoming Xitter 2.0 and I'm really hoping the remaining human users on there figure it out soon.

I feel like I went through withdrawals, took like a month to get over it, now I rarely use reddit, not missing anything, just thought I was, I guess I do miss reddit from like 2015, but it was getting worse every year, one of my last posts months before my permaban was asking for alternatives. (It's how I found lemmmy lol)

Reddit is also at a point where everything has been asked and is asked again weekly, i don't really need to post/comment anything myself and my votes mean nothing because of the volume. Most of my comments would get lost in a void.

Another easy way is to use a VPN like Mullvad. They block you and you can't see anything.

Yes, I expressed outrage at a disgusting state sanctioned murder in Iraq and suggested the invaders perpetrating these horror deserve to see the same kind of violence in their own cities. Permaban of the entire website forever. I could easily evade the ban but, this was also when the API trouble and the "reddit is fun" app stopped working. The writing was on the wall, duck that place and everyone in it. I won't be taken hostage anymore.

I never looked back and I'm glad I did, I was wasting so much of my precious time in that ducking disgusting dump. I hope Lemmy doesn't Septemberify for a long time. I really hope steps are taken to prevent centralization and owner dominance of Lemmy before it becomes reddit with extra steps

Can corroborate lmao. They’ve saved me so much time that I usually spent correcting misinfo, but I guess that’s what they want on their platform. Anyways Lemmy’s been an okay replacement.

They use weirdly aggressive fingerprinting to make sure you don't make any new accounts, too. What a bunch of weirdos.

It's so easy

There's still way too many niche communities on Reddit that just haven't taken off on Lemmy e.g. alternative a. Non-team sports.

There's a ViolentMonkey script that can automatically delete all of your Reddit comments. I just run that every few days.

It's not ideal, but it's the best that I can do if I value access to those communities, which I do.