SNOOcalypse - document, discuss, and promote the downfall of Reddit.

That's what I've been saying. Let the admin remove some mods from a subreddit like r/pics with millions of users. I guarantee anyone the appoint will be very done with modding within a week. It's rich that reddit is threatening to remove any porn posted to r/pics right now, since that will literally become the norm if moderators get removed.

It's like they expect mods to just appear out of thin air and act the same way as the current mods do

Yeah this has been the most obvious answer. The Reddit mods should walk, en masse. If spez wants to be like musk so bad then let him have it. Completely unregulated subreddits going to absolute shit. Advertisers pulling out. Just stop helping them run their own website and it will run right into the ground. Fuck ‘em, they killed all good will this go around and when called on it they’ve doubled and tripled down. I’ve got zero sympathy.

It gets worse.

One of the reasons why those Reddit powermods are in power is because they're willing to moderate a subreddit for 8h, 12h, perhaps even 16h a day. They take it as a job; the replacements won't, at most they'll be willing to check the sub twice a day and that's it.

So to replace every single of those powermods you'll need at least a half dozen new mods. Good luck finding them, Reddit! And if Reddit does find such huge amount of mods, you'll get huge mod teams that will be fucking hell for the users and the mods themselves.

People will line up to do it for free, but not to the level Reddit would expect them to. When communities get too many problematic posts Reddit will scold the mods and expect them to do better. It's foolish that they threaten to remove the mods.

I don't even want the pressure of moderating a niche lemmy sub I don't know who has the energy and time for large subreddit moderation

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.

"Hey Reddit, we heard you loud and clear that sending your servers too many requests costs you money and makes you unprofitable. No problem, we'll ease the burden by allowing only one post an hour."

Yes. Reddit will do exactly that. They give exactly zero fucks about community cohesion, mod powers, spam bots, literally nothing matters except keeping the flow of generic doomscrolling content flowing so the ad revenue checks keep showing up.

Ehh, you might as well waste as much of the admins time as possible.

It's reddit mods. Losing their powetrip for them is like a mother losing her baby.

What boggles the mind in this whole thing is that moderation is the product. These fools are gambling with the only thing they can’t afford to lose.

Here is Reddit inc’s dirty secret. The value they produces as a company is mod labor they don’t control and couldn’t afford to control if they wanted to.

Attempting to gain revenue from AI bots ingesting the site’s content wasn’t the worst idea. Letting that turn into a fight with the moderators was crazy dumb. Nobody needed to know reddits dirty secret until after an ipo if it had been played right. That would have required a CEO who actually knew the secret though.

That is so dumb too.

Ooh yes, let's protest by doing what we have always done on reddit. I'm sure it'll help!!