The only thing we ever need to do on reddit is encourage migration to further drive down traffic: Dm mods of your fave subs and ask about migration, something as simple as “Hey, I love this community but I no longer use reddit, will you guys be making a community on Kbin or other alternatives? Let me know please, thanks.” will work!! We need more voices encouraging migration!

I’m treating the blackout and the aftermath as a worker strike, and treating any mods replacing removed mods as scabs. But more to the point, it’s a strike and I do not cross picket lines. I will not go even to the Reddit front page until the corporation reverses course, accedes to the demands of their unpaid labor and backs the fuck up.

There’s a case to be made on either end. The best thing would be for people to move to better pastures with dignity, but the malicious compliance and worse create headaches and embarrassment for spez that may pay off in the press, or at some other date. Mods getting banned for making their accounts porn accounts certainly know they’re going out the door, but they’d prefer to be thrown out.

And ultimately, for the veteran redditors who are watching all this, they want to see the end with their own eyes.

Stepping away is sort of my plan at the moment.

I’m the solo mod of an 11K subscriber sub who posted most of the content. I took the sub private for the first 48 hours of the protest, then polled everyone to see if they wanted to keep going.

Only a third were in favor. The other two-thirds were “No” or “I don’t understand and/or don’t care”.

I posted links to equivalent places in lemmy/kbin/discord to see if there would be any kind of migration to follow me here.

So far I have exactly one follower on lemmy, and 5 new members on discord (none of whom have interacted at all).

For now, I’m going to continue to monitor my reddit sub (to keep things in order) but will only be posting things in the fediverse. I just cant’, in good conscience, keep contributing to “my” sub in the current environment. It makes me sad, to be honest; I felt a certain amount of pride in what I (we) accomplished over there.

We’ll see what happens going forward.

On the 12th, I uninstalled rif, signed up at Beehaw, heard about Jerboa and installed that, and put the icon for that where the rif one used to be on my home screen. I haven’t been back to Reddit since.

Exactly this. I haven’t been back on since before the blackout.

I shuttered the two subs I was in charge of (moderate size so they’ve flown under the radar thus far) and simply haven’t been back.

Agreed. I nuked my account today and when asked why I was deleting it i mentioned /u/spez and obviously that won’t get back to him but i hope enough people do it to make others in the company realize he’s toxic and needs to go

the only reasons i’m looking at my reddit window currently are to check modmail (one of my subs is currently restricted but i’m accepting requests for member status) or to check r/modcoord and r/Save3rdPartyApps and other protest subs. i made a promise to the subscribers there when i took control of it from being unmoderated, and i’ll keep that promise to them until the end of the month, but i’m also going to leave quite a bit to remember me by, namely i’m going to configure automod to at least attempt to get rid of most of the spam as well as make the sub effectively unable to be monetized. would rather fly under the radar until that’s in place tho

I haven’t used Reddit since the protest began aside from dropping a pinned post on my profile linking to my profile on Kbin. I’ve seen this movie before and I know how it plays out. Reddit won’t go away any time soon, but it’s going to be slowly hollowed out while most of the active users migrate to Lemmy/Kbin. I have no doubt in my mind that this community has enough tailwind at this point to thrive.

I agree with your premise, but not all of the details. I believe that if you don’t want to be on Reddit as it is, simply don’t be on Reddit. Depart gracefully, don’t burn bridges, don’t troll or spam. It doesn’t help anyone - your mental health included.

In many ways, I do believe that taking the high road is best when there’s an issue like this. I don’t mind being on Reddit, or kbin, or Lemmy, or Mastodon. The only social I’m never on is Twitter. I don’t see a need to be there; so I’m not. For my own part, I didn’t mind the 2-day blackout - I mind the spam, the NSFW from unexpected sources, etc. If the answer is that I need to stand up and start taking part in moderating communities to ensure that the content I want to see is what’s there, I’ll decide then whether I want to do so or not. I’m annoyed by the possibility of the app I prefer (RedReader) standing on shaky ground from now on with an “accessibility” label hung on it. I’m not a fan of ads, at the best of times, I block most advertising domains, and usually turn off ECMAScript on sites (or at least I’m picky about what is allowed to run). I’d prefer to turn it off altogether, but that’s not an option at the moment with the way the web is going.

As I’ve said before, I do not believe there’s a single active mod of a large community who doesn’t know whether or not they want to lead a community on Reddit right now. If they want to lead a community, but not on Reddit, there’s the various fediverse options, JCInk, Freeforums, NeoCities, or whatever - those people could even file an RFD and have it put up on Usenet. If they want to lead a community on Reddit, that means abiding by the rules, policies, and behaviors which have been set down. I have no problem with, say, r/piracy moving to their own Lemmy, and I’m honestly in favor of the wide adoption of alternate social media (though I worry what onerous monetization will be forced upon us when the costs get too high and each server can only afford customers, not paying users - we know ads won’t work, because of so many of us using adblockers).

If you want to be part of a community specifically on Reddit now, then be a part of that community on Reddit. If you want to be part of a community, but you’re ambivalent about Reddit, rejoin or rebuild it elsewhere. Don’t make things worse for the people who make a different decision. That just makes them become reactionary and defensive, and likely they’ll end up opposing you, and whatever it is you stand for (which in this cause could actively hurt fediverse participation).

I’m tempted to post a nsfw pic with both my penis and breasts visible at the same time to r/mildlyinteresting or something. It’d be funny, like “oh hey this is what a penis looks like when your estrogen levels are above 200 how mildly interesting”. It would increase engagement, (engagement that reddit cannot monitize), but more importantly, it’d be funny

I did install the official app juuuust long enough to give it a one-star rating and a scathing review. Unsure if that actually helps or hurts them, but it was cathartic just the same.

I opened my teeny sub for John Oliver pics but I’m taking it private again…

Nah we need people over there spreading the word about federated alternatives