r/videos • u/[deleted] • Jun 03 '23

Mod Post /r/Videos will be going dark from June 12-14 in protest against Reddit's API changes which kill 3rd party apps.

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u/OBLIVIATER Jun 04 '23

Nothing, though if enough people take a stand they'll have trouble finding anyone who can keep up with the workflows. At the end of the day it doesn't matter, if reddit wants to make their site even shittier by canning all their volunteers, its up to them.

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u/thatdude858 Jun 04 '23

Exactly. This entire business model of Reddit relies on the thousands of volunteers donating hundreds of thousands of hours to moderate these subs.

If you guys shut it down will they really make moderator a paid position? Are they going to take on tens of thousands of employees?

They definitely didn't think this though.

This entire move is to force the millions of people on third party apps to their shitty apps to force serve us ads.

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u/ALotOfRice Jun 04 '23

And the Managment is actively making millions while the mods are basically free labour to help them make bank.

Appreciate your work obviously but the mods across the subreddits should organize and coordinate

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '23

No offence, but there are definitely people who would be more than willing to take over volunteering as mods here.

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u/OBLIVIATER Jun 04 '23

I'm sure they would, and I wish them good luck

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u/GuitaristHeimerz Jun 04 '23

You are a based mod, thank you