SB 1047: Our Side of the Story was just posted and the ACX readers are upset.

Each line is a different comment. This is the most negative I've ever seen one of his comment sections.

Possibly the least charitable, most tribal post by Scott ever. I'm a bit sad.

I'd like to see a shred more evidence that "let's just stir up trouble for the

lulz" was the motivation here, in order to label anyone or any group as trolls.

What does it feel like, on the inside of an insane movement?

Extremely unsympathetic "our side of the story" post.

There’s isn’t a section here that doesn’t come off as blinded by bias.

I like Scott better as an aloof, cynical yet charitable, observer of politics rather than as an actual participant.

The asterisks thing is nails-on-a-chalkboard irritating.

Require all users to link to a fediverse instance at the end of their comments.

There's multiple reasons

• User's have control over their content. A single entity can't arbitrarily censor the entire fediverse. In the fediverse, users are free to continuously modify their content. If a company decides they want to change that, it doesn't impact the entire fediverse
• It's bad for reddit and reddit is a toxic company that generates most of it's revenue without paying for content licensing.
• User's have more control over monetizing their content
• reddit is guilty of taking communities and changing the narrative to fit their own. This subreddit specifically talks badly about large tech companies like reddit.
• reddit arbitrarily bans users not at fault that they promise monetization without providing explanation, and continue to monetize their content after banning.
• I don't like reddit, and don't like how they pretend they own user content. Linking to instances will likely convert some users, which is bad for reddit and good for user freedom.

With this rule, something like the following would be required.

I use programming.dev in the fediverse. It can used to follow the sneerclub community at awful.systems in the fediverse.

it would be nice to know the reason (after the very, very defiant post last year) of quietly resurrecting the subreddit like nothing has happened, and like reddit hadn't had a well-paid agreement to feed google's ai with the words, and work of the redditors.

so, mods, why, for fuck's sake? it's not like there aren't alternatives?

The admins have worked their way down their list and finally reached the 18k subreddits. Earlier today we got this modmail from /u/ModCodeOfConduct, identical in content to what many other subreddits have received:

Hi everyone,

We are aware that you have chosen to close your community at this time. Mods have a right to take a break from moderating, or decide that you don’t want to be a mod anymore. But active communities are relied upon by thousands or even millions of users, and we have a duty to keep these spaces active.

Subreddits belong to the community of users who come to them for support and conversation. Moderators are stewards of these spaces and in a position of trust. Redditors rely on these spaces for information, support, entertainment, and connection.

Our goal here is to ensure that existing mod teams establish a path forward to make sure your subreddit is available for the community that has made its home here. If you are willing to reopen and maintain the community, please take steps to begin that process. Many communities have chosen to go restricted for a period of time before becoming fully open, to avoid a flood of traffic.

If this community remains private, we will reach out soon with information on what next steps will take place.

In short, we are being told to bend the knee or to die.

For some context: we're pretty far down the list, so we've already had the chance to see how Huffman is responding to larger subreddits involved in the protest. Entire mod teams have been axed for reopening their subreddit but setting it as NSFW or some other such protest. Huffman has also said he wants to put in place ways for mods to be removed by subscribers. For a small sub like ours, that puts us at risk of a larger sub like r/SSC staging an admin-backed coup. So even if we acquiesced to the demand we go back to business as usual, there's no trust that that will actually protect sneerclub in the long term.

All of us have better use for the remaining seconds of our lives than to work in this version of the punishment simulation.

For that reason, we're leaving this sub in restricted mode for now. You can comment in this thread, discuss what sneerclub should do, give a eulogy, or so on, but new posts cannot be made. We'll remain in restricted mode until Huffman shows a good faith effort of backing down from his crusade and responding to the concerns outlined e.g. here and here. I have little faith he's willing to do this, but maybe he'll think back to his days of being on the r/jailbait mod team and appreciate the efforts of reddit moderators and come to the table.

If that doesn't happen and Huffman does axe the lot of us, then he'll no doubt appoint some necromancer to puppet the corpse of sneerclub. (Personally I'm holding out hope that he can get Scott Aaronson to do it.) But while the body may shamble on, the soul will have reached its rest and gone to the optimal rescue simulation.

Semper sneer.

Is there an IRC channel???

But seriously, idk anything post-twitter and reddit.