• Steve@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      2 years ago

      They don’t need to take over all of them. A dozen or two of the largest subs would be plenty. Those with less than a couple hundred thousand subscribers, don’t really matter much.

      • lynny@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        2 years ago

        Even trying to take over the biggest subs would be Herculean, especially considering they just laid off 5% of their staff.

      • samick1@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        2·
        2 years ago

        A dozen or two of the largest subs would be plenty.

        Those subs required a huge effort to moderate before, but it’s going to be 10x worse now that every submission is going to be AI generated pictures of spez doing things to goats or something.

  • LostCause@lemmy.mlEnglish
    5·
    2 years ago

    Of course they are. That is why I am here, Reddit in my eyes is done for either way and once it is on the stock market, it’ll only get worse.

    • SpellCastingRepeller@lemmy.mlEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      It’s literally embarrassing that Reddit is doing this, Reddit doing dumb API changes, Spez falsely accusing the owner of apollo of blackmail, and now they’re unprivating subreddits.

      • Nythos@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1·
        2 years ago

        Falsely accusing him of blackmailing and then doubling down on it in the AMA and then also ignoring Christian when he asked for proof and gave Spez full permission to show him where in any chat logs they had

    • zhunk@beehaw.orgEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      Just bots posting old content and tweets for the chatbots to comment on. Fun.

  • empireOfLove@lemmy.oneEnglish
    3·
    2 years ago

    We all knew this was exactly what they would do. They don’t give a shit about any form of community, they just need enough generic content flowing to keep the lurkers happy enough to keep loading advertisements.

  • LUHG@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    2 years ago

    I say as soon as the subs go live we all just spam Lemmy links to the new pages.

    They can’t ban us all. The mods probably won’t care and the ones savvy enough will make it out.

    We need the small wins first.

    • collegefurtraderEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      The new mod was always there, hes a power mod who apparently has a brain implant that plugs directly into reddit, since he’s active 24/7

    • Hot Saucerman@lemmy.mlEnglish
      0·
      2 years ago

      That doesn’t make it disinformation. The re-opening of kotakuinaction was abhorrent at the time.

      So the top mod finally realized how much hate and misogyny they were pushing and how it was making reddit as a whole worse? so they shut it all down?

      Apparently spez really sympathizes with people who push hate and misogyny, because he opened it right back up for them. Even though the site really would have been better with it gone and without their constant brigading and non-stop harassing of women in the gaming community.

      It was a bullshit reason then, and it’s a bullshit reason now. Back then it was used to help fucking horrible people stay online and have a voice, and now it’s being used as a strike breaker. The “rule” only exists because they didn’t want to lose ad impressions from misogynists. So give me a fucking break.

      spez can eat shit and anyone parroting this “ThAtS dIsInFoRmAtIoN” bs can eat shit too.