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Doubt it. Most big subreddits have a lot of people wanting to become a mod, they'd just request it from Reddit - mods abandoning the subreddit is the most common reason they grant a new owner to a community.
What will happen is the quality of the subs will drop - less megathreads, less documentation, barely functional wikis, no live events, the passion will be mostly gone.
Most big subreddits have a lot of people wanting to become a mod, they’d just request it from Reddit
This is what I was thinking too, but there was no clarification of whether the mods would openly abandon their positions, or just refusing to do any enforcement of the rules besides the bare minimum (which is already what a lot of big sub mods do lol).
Either way, this is more evidence that that Reddit will become a worse experience on all fronts.
I hope there is an application tracking moderator changes like there is with the blackout.
Those people have no idea what mods has to do on semi decent big subs, lol.
Let it all burn down. Leave nothing for the IPO.
Staying as moderators but abstaining from moderating would be ideal. Let the whole place go to hell, let spam fill it, heck contribute to the spam through alts. Hide anything that could be worthwhile in a haystack of garbage. Upvote garbage. If they decide peaceful protest will "blow over", then offensive protest will destroy any value the site has. It'll go the way of twitter should moderators allow it.
If they decide peaceful protest will “blow over”, then offensive protest will destroy any value the site has.
I believe that is exactly what Reddit is banking on.. The entire text of the internal memo is in the blockquote at the bottom.
Yup! And if we can't end the enshittification from the company, we should hasten it in the userbase and make the entire site unpalettable.
What can you possibly come up with that isn't right wing propaganda at this point? It will just seem like business as usual for fox fiction and twithard. That is the only userbase currently on the platform during the blackout. You'll actually grow their numbers from the current baseline.
Right wing propaganda??? What?
catch two birds with one stone and make the spam about reddit alternatives.
I think that'd be bad for lemmy-optics
Better: create posts that point to original threads/posts on lemmy instances. It's a legitimate link but shows people that there is something similar.
Why would one want to moderate Reddit, especially if it’s free labor for a company making money?