• Yaztromo@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    They kicked myself and my entire mod team from r/Canning because we held a vote and our users asked us to shut the community down in protest of their 3rd party app policies.

    Then recently they emailed and messaged me telling me I could get in on the ground floor of buying shares.

    That’s going to be a big resounding “no” from me there u/spez.

    • Gork@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      Are you saying that they… canned you?

      Sorry I couldn’t resist.

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        1 year ago

        You’re not the first to have noted that — but it remains funny, so we’re good 🤣.

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        1 year ago

        I gotta ask, why are you rockin’ a Snoo avatar? Even if you still have love for the company but just hate Spez any advertisement/endorsement of it now benefits him.

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        1 year ago

        I’m still technically a moderator elsewhere, but I haven’t been active since June (no posts, no moderation, no messages). It’s an artifact of being one of the approved contributors on r/AskScience — they delegate a controlled set of moderator powers to anyone in their Panel Plus programme.

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          While I was going through deleting old messages (that were missed by the auto-deleting program), I noticed I had a 5-year-old message inviting me to be a mod on a tiny little sub. I clicked accept for the hell of it and it was still valid! So I guess I’m technically landed gentry?

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      Ha they sent me the same message, and while I was not booted as a mod, I led the protest effort in a few subs that I modded in and helped out over in Save3rdPartyApps. I didn’t delete my account, just went silent after resigning when other mods got cold feet as soon as it started to get real.

      • Yaztromo@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        Yeah, you may have seen some of my posts from the time on r/Save3rdPartyApps and/or r/ModCoord. I was one of the few pretty vocal that we had to hold the line, and that a simple two week blackout wasn’t going to be effective. I knew they’d either be forced to capitulate or kick me out as the head moderator or r/Canning — and wasn’t surprised after most of the other mods chickened out that they did just that.

        I wasn’t about to chicken out — the worst they could do is remove from me the privilege of working for them for free. My entire personality and self-worth wasn’t tied to being a Reddit moderator.

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        My experience modding r/Canning burnt me out on online canning forums. There is a ton of unsafe information out there, and so I just got out of online canning discussions altogether.

        There was a Lemmy instance out there that was intended to revolve around self sufficiency that offered me moderation rights to their canning forum, but that instance didn’t really take off, nobody ever posted to their canning community, and the instance went offline several months ago.

        I still can — but I don’t participate in any online canning communities, so I’m not sure what’s trustworthy out there right now.