Today, Reddit forcibly removed me (and everyone else) as mods of /r/iOSProgramming, a subreddit of about 130k users. I was keeping the sub private / NSFW to prevent Reddit from monetizing it with ads.
Rather than holding the community over on Reddit hostage, let people be there and discuss things there if they want to. It’s up to the individual whether or not to protest. Make Lemmy a better place to be than Reddit (probably not difficult if moderation over there goes to shit and everywhere gets filled with spam and trolls) and the users will come without the need to be all authoritarian about it. It’s very frustrating for innocent users who are less into the politics just looking for some old bit of info and running into private communities everwhere
Honestly, good.
Rather than holding the community over on Reddit hostage, let people be there and discuss things there if they want to. It’s up to the individual whether or not to protest. Make Lemmy a better place to be than Reddit (probably not difficult if moderation over there goes to shit and everywhere gets filled with spam and trolls) and the users will come without the need to be all authoritarian about it. It’s very frustrating for innocent users who are less into the politics just looking for some old bit of info and running into private communities everwhere