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Reddit demands moderators remove NSFW labels, or else (www.theverge.com)

submitted 1 year ago by L4s to c/technology

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Reddit is sending strongly-worded messages to moderators of certain subreddits that are marked as NSFW (Not Safe For Work), telling them to remove the tag or face being removed.

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[–] kescusay 70 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That's not really fair. I mean, it is for some, but for most of us, we're just caught in a shitty situation.

I mod (or modded, I suppose) for a medium-sized city subreddit, and it's used for things like news about missing persons, job openings, safety hazards, special events, and so on. Things that are of interest to the actual, physical community. It's an online mirror of our city that took years to develop.

That's really hard to just abandon. At the same time, most of the mods were using RIF or Apollo to stay on top of spammers, trolls, scams, and other objectionable content, and now we're stuck with either the half-baked, laggy, crash-prone nonsense of the official app, or the desktop website.

Neither is any good for properly moderating a busy, active subreddit from a phone. It can't be done.

So mods who care about their communities are trying their best to hold them together while finding a way to protest these changes, and it sucks for everyone involved.

And a lot are working on leaving Reddit and trying to build communities here on Lemmy instead.

Reddit is dying now. It's going to be slow, and it's going to involve mods trying to save their communities for a while, but I don't think anything is really going to save it from this mortal, self-inflicted wound. Give it time... Lemmy is getting better daily, while Reddit is getting worse. And cut the mods who care more about their communities than they do about the specific platform those communities reside on some slack. It's a shitty situation all around.

[–] Reliant1087 37 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wish people would take a more subtle approach. Have a pinned post saying that mods have moved the community to the lemmy one with the link, and have a bot reply to new posts saying the community has shifted and how to post there with a few linked resources. I've seen this strategy used successfully in many subreddits to get people to discord or some other platform.

[–] trifictional 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I remember when the female dating strategy sub did this rather successfully.

They were about to get banned anyway for the incel-like behaviour and took it upon themselves to switch platforms.

[–] Reliant1087 2 points 1 year ago

Peak irony if we use their strategy too :)