This will get interesting.
I keep seeing that a lot are going to stay black indefinitely, which is awesome. I also read that a admin took away a head mods powers, and gave them to a lower mod, and then reopened the specific sub (which I currently don’t remember which, but it wasn’t small).
I feel like we will see a LOT more of the admins handing power over to the people who want power, or want to stay on Reddit and don’t care about any of the downsides/drama.
r/technology was staying open and didn’t say a peep about the blackout. At some point it went private but it doesn’t have some kind of message or reason as to why, unlike subs actively participating in the blackout. As it turns out, a reddit admin is currently top mod of r/technology and had been actively posting in an official reddit sub (could’ve been r/reddit) in defense of the API move during the end of last week. I think r/technology is a good sub to watch, just gonna leave it at that.
The reddit admins have an excuse for booting out the last mods, for stability reasons, since the blackout caused a downtime.
The last redditors will be modded by robots and what they say will be analysed by other robots for money. How fun.
I will guess that the admins will boot the mods and get others to mod those subs. No way this is allowed to continue indefinitely .
I read, somewhere, that one sub already did just that.
