‘When there is nothing to complain about just make up an enemy’
Whatever enemy you’re projecting doesn’t exist except in your head.

Try reading again. I dont get banned or complain about it.
Nice strawman. Building your own enemy how you want it.

They have to control what you read and it’s always the same argument. ‘Dogwhistle’, ‘Groomer’, ‘Nazi’, ‘Pedo’, etc…
Funny thing is you never see this IRL and it’s only the terminally online who write like this. IRL discussions are much more mellow and you can talk with people about stuff, even controversial topics and you can always drop it and be good.

Every comment in this thread you could’ve found on reddit and copy pasted it here. Same quality of discourse.

This exact thread down to the comments could’ve been on reddit and no one would’ve noticed. It’s the same rehashed arguments and discussion ad nauseum. If you don’t like some instance/magazine/whatever just block it yourself and be done with it.

cope

That’s always how it works out tho. If you work for anyone you never do it as an unspoken agreement as the rules will change later on. No matter the assurances.

imagine working for a corp for 15 years for free 💀

Apparently awkward was responsible for a lot of the John Oliver spam in the subs he modded. Might be why he’s finally gone now. He even contacted John Oliver on Twitter to cry about his suspension and ask for help lol See pic related

Powermod of over 1000 subs. Permanently online. Bans users for no reason and posts inflammatory comments and pins them in threads. One example - Do you remember the r/Art drama where the artist got her art removed by a mod who said it was AI art (it was not) and berated the artist for her style? Yep, that’s awkwardtheturtle.
Basically the worst of the WORST of reddit mods with no life outside of reddit.

reddit mods cant stand to lose their ‘power’ kek
its the only thing they have

dont we all know since Ellen Pao that it doesnt matter what the figurehead says? its all garble garble. see what they are doing instead

‘deny the right’ not sure the users had that in the first place

The loudest mods keep posting even amongst themselves when they closed ‘their’ subs. Check their post history. It’s performative.
There’s a reason reddit mods are reviled everywhere on the internet. Let them cry and piss and shit themselves. It’s free entertainment

Prob the same people who remade the subs here as magazines, squatting on the name but havent made a single comment since 4 or 5 days ago.

Not to be diminutive to your point, but reddit discussion weren’t high quality either and I have a feeling they won’t be here too. They might be friendlier on here, written more ‘eloquently’ to give them a sheen of informedness, but unless people start from similar knowledge bases on topics, then meaningful discussion will never materialize.

I predict any technical/political topic on here will be a dumpsterfire of uninformedness just like it was on reddit. You can already see reddit-tier responses to popular topics. In the end the same few talking points will be repeated over and over again, right or wrong (mostly wrong or incomplete).

It’s why I personally stay away from these completely and stick to sharing art/game stuff. It’s far more sane.

would be interesting to see. just open up and stop modding, except once every 24 hours or so. just say you’re busy IRL lol

They’re not gonna replace all of them at once. Some admins will get assigned to work their way down the list (ranked by subscribers probably) and while this is going on I predict a lot of smaller subs are gonna falter resolving it.

People are already making separate subs so smaller ones might eventually get replaced.

@giddy I dont think so. In my opinion mods are delusional about their level of contribution and most are sticking around you can see it yourself. The ones leaving thus far are those discontent with the content on reddit.
I also see subs open polls now for the blackout stuff and most votes are in favor of stopping the blackout and calling out mods for ‘virtue signalling’ and calling them tyrants.
Just to give some perspective.

Good riddance. I like the no-downvote style but overzealous mods just create their own pillow fort of the same 5 users regurgitating the same shit over and over.

I was the same and it’s kinda sad to see people are making carbon copies of the big reddit subs here with predictable comments.

I mean reddit quality was already in freefall outside of smallish subs. It’s gonna get worse quickly if those people actually leave.