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Oh yeah I probably didn’t articulate my point well enough because I need more coffee but for better or worse power is… well… empowering and there’s both good and bad examples of this. I also think some of the users were too defeatists about it saying we can’t change anything and to that I say, “it’s not about the ~~money~~ changing stuff, it’s about sending a message”. But when that message is r/memes going “oh unm ok we’re gonna protest by making all our memes medieval TAKE THAT REDDIT!! Please don’t remove us.”
Looking back I saw which mods used their power for the better to drive a community they cared about and which were more in it for the power
Using a game I play r/planetside may not be the best example but it’s a decently niche game. By indefinitely blacking out our toxic little echo chamber ultimately had a ton to lose and very little to gain given the odds of protests succeeding. Given how our community wasn’t massive I’d bet it’s still blacked out. But despite us always flaming each other and developers I think the mods cared becuase they didn’t cave on their community and go “post planetside but add a cat to the corner that’ll show Reddit how mad we are”, no, they shut down and I’m still looking for a stable planetside community but they stuck to their guns
I kinda went on a rant and forgot my point was so I’m just gonna end here
Over on /r/dota2 it was different. Mods basically didn't care and just joined the protest because it was voted so by the community. Then, when another vote was made later where support dropped a bit to "only" 60% supporting some form of protest, they just opened up the subreddit and haven't talked about anything since.
Now some are on [email protected] but since there was no effort to migrate anything it's only small.
Maybe if your mods are more committed you could ask them to link to an alternate community on Lemmy in their "subreddit private" message?
Apparently there is a [email protected] I guess I missed it because Memmy had issues showing communities in the search tab