I've been the main moderator of the same community since 2016. This evening, i approved my last comment.

I'm leaving for two reasons:

1. Reddit went public a week ago. I didn’t volunteer to work for a publicly traded company, i volunteered to work for a community. As long as i live under capitalism i accept that my labor will generate value for shareholders, but damned if i ever do it for free. (this is not a Faulkner quote)

2. April 1st is coming and i'm scared they might do another r/place. Doing in r/place 2022 and 2023 has left me dejected and bitter and i don't want to feel obligated to participate again.

Leaving felt like ripping myself off of something warm i've been comfortably glued to for a long time. Still recommend it for anyone still giving Reddit shareholders free labor

These mandatory emails about the upcoming IPO are a violation of the CAN-SPAM Act because there is no unsubscribe option. The FTC enforces this law, and violations can be reported via a form at https://reportfraud.ftc.gov/

Here's the message I'm sending along to the FTC with an example IPO promotional email. Feel free to copy it and make your own report, but writing your own complaint is even more effective.

Subject: Report of Unwanted & Deceptive Email Practices -- Reddit IPO Spam

Dear Sir/Madam,

I am writing to report a series of unwanted promotional emails I have been receiving from Reddit concerning their upcoming Initial Public Offering (IPO). Despite my attempts to find a way to opt-out, these emails do not include an unsubscribe link and originate from a no-reply address, making it impossible for me to stop receiving them.

The content of these emails frames Reddit's IPO as a significant opportunity for me, which I find misleading and deceptive. It appears to be an abuse of user contact information for the purpose of promoting their financial interests. This practice not only disrupts my personal and professional life by cluttering my inbox with unsolicited emails but also raises serious concerns about the ethical standards of Reddit's marketing strategies.

In light of the Federal Trade Commission's role in protecting consumers and enforcing laws against deceptive email practices, I believe this issue falls squarely within your regulatory purview. The lack of an unsubscribe option contravenes the CAN-SPAM Act's requirement for a clear and conspicuous way to opt out of future emails. This situation highlights a broader issue of companies exploiting user data for financial gain without providing an easy mechanism to opt out of such communications.

I urge the FTC to investigate this matter and take appropriate action to ensure that Reddit, and companies engaging in similar practices, comply with established laws and regulations governing email communications and consumer rights. I am willing to provide further details or copies of the emails in question if required.

Thank you for your attention to this matter and for your ongoing efforts to protect consumers from deceptive and unwanted email practices.

Sincerely,

A Reddit User

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Disclaimer: Sorry if the write-up is a bit too long.

I am pretty shocked by how we handled the blackout and the whole Reddit API mess months ago but even more so now with everyone pretty much back to just using this platform.

I admit the blackout was pretty powerful while it happened but we did it for the wrong reason - The blackout hoped Reddit would notice our message and turn over it, but we all know that this was never going to happen.

It is STILL not too late, we can still organize and make a different mass migration, but a more effective and long-term migration happen, we as mods should do more and take that final dip and leave this platform for good, if the majority of mods leave, who would be here left to moderate all the communities? I doubt the admins would be FORM, and a set of admins CAN and DID control all the users and have complete control over this website, all the power we as users had was just shouting and complaining at them, which never had much effect especially if they really wanted to make something happen.

Isn't ALL THAT enough for us to consider Lemmy? What happened has never shown us the importance of decentralization and open source code better than ever, do you think any of this could have happened if the platform was, at the least open source? And the API was free? Do you think admins would have censored a lot of things they did in Reddit's history would have happened if this platform was decentralized or federated?

The blackout lead to several closures of communities for a few days just to be back, but I believe the whole blackout concept was the wrong way.

proposal strategy idea: What we should have done, was keep the communities open, but put it in restrict a few days weeklyand open it back up (back and forth) and have our alternative Lemmy communities PINNED, this way the Reddit communities would still be open the few other days in the week while not giving Reddit admins a reason to force us to reopen it or risk losing our mod positions in our communities due to being inactive.

It is STILL not too late, we can still organize and make a different mass migration, but a more effective and long-term migration happen, we as mods should do more and take that final dip and leave this platform for good, if the majority of mods leave, who would be here left to moderate all the communities? I doubt the admins would be able to do all that, we should follow a strategy like mentioned above and implement that.

Lemmy.world is now the biggest Reddit alternative and even has alternative UIs such as the old reddit and Lemmy as a platform now has over 14 third party apps, 14! Ex-developers from Sync and Boost have moved to Lemmy too, Lemmy has offered these ex-reddit third-party app ecosystem, what we majorly fought for, a permanent free home. I am not saying Lemmy is flawless (in-fact it's far from it), but staying here doesn't help either.

All moderators, it's time we do something, please.

EDIT: The comment section shows why Reddit won, I have nothing else to say.

Say I mod a sub with 5 other mods, and I am # 3 on the mod list. The top two mods are inactive, and under the new guidelines I can re-order the inactive mods to make myself the top mod.

Once I am top mod, I can in theory "go rogue" and remove all the other mods, effectively staging a takeover of the sub.

Are there any tools in place to keep this from happening?

I wanted to ask here before I did a Google search deep dive and I wonder if there's a sub on reddit where I can ask this question to those who ACTUALLY have more needs accessibility-wise and could give a better answer on what it's actually like using reddit these days. TIA

I was doing some updating today and noticed that there were no related subreddits on my sidebar. Not a big deal. I went through and updated them. However, I would swear that there used to be a dedicated section for related subreddits. Maybe an update removed this section?

Am I nuts? Is this like the Mandela Effect™?

https://hopin.com/events/reddit-mod-world/registration

They have events with Spez and some others.

Did anything happen as a result of this? Or is it back to business as usual?

Well this is not fair to the other subs who are strictly Australian etc subs… take’s away the reward system to implement something that hurts the reddit community even more! I was curious as to what it was…thought idyhace a read.

I was about to make a post on r/javascript but they're still restricted.

Gold is back?

https://web3isgoinggreat.com/?id=reddit-abandons-blockchain-based-community-points

Where the fuck is the money I'd be giving to the subreddit going to go that it actually supports the community at all?

I got permission from the mods for a rule 2 exemption

This is a petition to ban the bot, u/BeBodyPositive, on as many subreddits as possible. It is a bot that gives a long lecture about fatphobia (whatever that is :eyeroll:) whenever you use the word ‘big’ in any context. It is more annoying than anything and I see it as spam, as all the times I’ve seen it being used, it’s in completely the wrong context, and also normally its comments get a decent amount of downvotes (it’s got -100 karma so if your subs have a karma requirement, you don’t need to worry about it).

I’ve banned it on all the subs I moderate, albeit small ones. I would like to see it banned on more, larger subs.

Thank you for reading this.