• Plume (She/Her)@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    The utter irony of r/AntiWork being forced to reopen is astounding. Strike broken. Union busted. It’s over.

    • manitcor@lemmy.intai.tech
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      they are toast, forcing these open will not save them long term. the fact that they had to go here shows how effective this has really been.

      no one expect them to close doors tomorrow, and I still think they IPO, lots of dumpster fires IPO. Will still be a dumpster fire and at some point it will be “huh, you still go to that trash site”?

      Its happened to ever corp social network.

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        I think you hit on one of the key points. Every other time this same pattern has played out, each of those sites becomes a shadow of what they once were, but the continue because (to be blunt) running Internet sites is CHEAP.

    • mobyduck648@beehaw.org
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      1 year ago

      I wonder why they’re forcing open not particularly advertiser friendly subs like piracy and antiwork?

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        Possibly conspiratorial thinking on my part, but the first reason I can think of is that those subs are both popular enough that they wouldn’t want them fully migrating off reddit/closed forever, but also the kind of sub to not go along with unpopular decisions/ cause trouble. If you were looking to force a few subs open to serve as an example to mods of other subs that they must reopen or be replaced, you’d want to choose ones that aren’t as likely to reopen on their own anyway after awhile, and who’s moderation team you might want to replace, as you now have an excuse and the people who would get mad already are.

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          I simply thing Reddit is using the opportunity to rid themselves of anticapitalist subs, the ones that would harm their image for the IPO. Remove the sources of future dissent.

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        I wonder if it’s because they know the first few subs to be forced open will make headlines, but the second batch most likely won’t. So by starting with fringe subs it paints the picture that’s it’s not the bigger or more important subs that are participating in the blackout.

        I wouldn’t be surprised to see the /r/antiwork mod’s disastrous appearance on Fox News become a talking point again paired with this, so that when people hear “Reddit forces mods to…” that’s the sort of person the public pictures.

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          I doubt they want “reddit administration forces open r/piracy community” to make headlines.

          I, on the other hand, could dream of nothing better.