They should. Crossing the virtual picket line should be seen as a bad move. Unfortunately, many of these predditors don’t care. They want to browse their cool video game community and get the updoots.

Eh, whoever takes up that offer is going to learn in short order why the protest is happening in the first place. As will the rest of the community once the content quality drops into the gutter because the would-be replacement mods can’t keep up with getting rid of the garbage. You try moderating a subreddit of any significant size with gimped moderation tools. If anything, this would accelerate Reddit’s fall into irrelevance as users start looking elsewhere for a place that isn’t overrun by spambots of various flavors.

Fuck scabs

Honestly just let Reddit cannibilize itself and stabilise into whatever it wants to become. Getting angry because a few hundred million people have a hundred million opinions and takes is a fool’s errand.

Why don’t you just focus on enjoying Lemmy and finding a new way to integrate Reddit into your life (or out of it).

From my perspective, I’ve basically left Reddit. Hypothetically, I 100% agree with you, but from a practical standpoint, I don’t really care what happens over there.

Agreed, it is a terrible look.

You’re going to see the pendulum swing back in the other direction. People who remain on reddit will be all in favor of reopening, and they’ll start pushing an anti-mod circlejerk. Even users who had energy for two days worth of protest will get bored and decide they want everything back. People will blame the protest for being annoying, failing to understand that protest can’t be effective if it doesn’t agitate.

Classical strikebreakers. However the community refusing to use reddit, well, they won’t be there anymore anyways to get upset about.

If that happens, a lot of quality people leave the site, content suffers, more people leave, death spiral, you’re picked up by somebody at a dirt cheap valuation and they gut you for the nostalgia of what your brand used to mean, an expensive trophy because billionaires have the kind of money to play that petty. Meanwhile, new sites take your place and rinse, repeat, basically the history of the internet.

I just don’t care about Reddit anymore at all. I deleted my 11 year account and haven’t looked back since joining here.

how about if someone came here and squatted a community because they are angry at the world and can’t handle getting banned? i rekon just point and laugh - it’s their problem now, the poor fucker

Can a moderator disband a sub?

Scabs gotta scab

Honestly, leave them, those who are happy to be called worthless, deserve to stay on Reddit, it’s not like the CEO has been silently insulting them, he’s literally taking a press tour telling everyone who will listen just how little he thinks if he’s users.

Whomever stays after that has absolutely no self worth and sees their entire life’s value in Reddit.

Don’t let their meaningless existence have any impact on your life, all you would be doing is encoring them, you’d be giving them the attention they are soo desperately seeking.

Or you can grow the fuck up. Here come the downvotes. The Reddit scum are taking over this place unfortunately.