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hey everyone. if you want to post links or discuss the Reddit blackout today, please localize it to this thread in order to keep things tidy! Thanks!

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[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Advertisers are starting to take notice, it seems. Gotta keep the blackout running longer to hit em in their pocketbooks - 2 days they can weather out, indefinite dark they cannot. It's what I've been saying from the beginning, a protest with a clearly defined end date has no teeth.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I've heard about Reddit removing a mod from a popular subreddit, then turning the subreddit public (sorry, don't have the reference). They can always stop the blackout by force. But once they do that, those mods will have definite incentive to start the communities in the fediverse.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I think it was r/AdviceAnimals

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It was. How does one link to another post on Lemmy?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

From what I've seen so far, that doesn't seem to be a solved thing yet.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

That seemed to be a situation where the head mod was going against the wishes of the other mods. Not sure how I feel about it, personally, but it's not quite as simple as "Spez made the subreddit open against the wishes of everyone involved".

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

It was done because the head mod (who barely contributed anything) showed up out of the blue and decided to enroll the sub into the protest. The rest of the mod team was not in agreement with it.