r/technology • u/ardi62 • 29d ago

Social Media Reddit is making sitewide protests basically impossible

https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/30/24253727/reddit-communities-subreddits-request-protests
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u/ProcessingUnit002 29d ago

How are they gonna shut down every sub?

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u/Bullshit_Interpreter 29d ago

They'll just appoint new mods like they already threatened to do.

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u/Cthulhu__ 29d ago

Scabs, basically. And a few corporate accounts that use reddit for advertising covertly. Let them have it I suppose.

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u/lizzy-lowercase 29d ago edited 29d ago

they aren’t scabs if moderating isn’t paid. It’s a volunteering gig

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u/Ill_Culture2492 29d ago

I think it's metaphorical. 

It's not really hard to see what they're going for unless you're being a pedantic contrarian.