The Reddit moderators who coordinate many celebrity AMAs will no longer do so

[joshstrange]

This is completely unsurprising. I wrote a handful of small bots for a subreddit I helped with for a few years. Had all this API stuff gone down back then I’d have shut down my stuff as well. I spent a couple hundred dollars over those years on services and servers to help with that sub and I wouldn’t change it looking back but I also would never do that for something on Reddit again given how their CEO has behaved.

This is what people were warning about. On top of moderators walking away, Reddit is going to experience a “brain drain” of bot developers and developers who make tools for Reddit. Those people might not be influencers/content creators themselves but their work empowers that group.

I’m going to really miss Reddit and what it was. Other than Google results, Reddit died for me along with Apollo.

[BenFranklin100]

For someone such as myself who has accessed Reddit through a web bowser since its founding in 2005, I don’t get the outrage. So some people can’t access it through their favorite app? I’m more annoyed mods are shutting off access to a valuable resource that millions of users including myself contributed to over the last 18 years.

[2342342343636]

Celebrity AMAs are mostly just Q&As with celebrity publicists, and are done purely for promotion (usually for some new film, show, or brand they're selling), and are a great example of how fake and astroturfed reddit is in general.

[edgineer]

I thought they had an employee for that. I mean they used to, was Victoria her name? She took dictation for celebrities until one of them complained when she transcribed their words too directly, when she was fired. Did no one replace her?

[edgineer]

Mea culpa, the article mentions her. Though they do not detail exactly why she was fired, which I think they should.

[autoexec]

I stopped caring about AMAs after they canned her. If felt like reddit wanted to turn AMAs into nothing but advertising. Occasionally other subreddits would host them with varying success though.

[mikece]

I am not a Redditor; is there a synopsis somewhere to briefly explain what this war of mods vs Reddit has been about?

[Tempest1981]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Reddit_API_controversy

The "Subreddit Blackout" section talks about the battle with moderators:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Reddit_API_controversy#...

[solarkraft]

A good step. Will they move to the main competitor? What can we do to make that happen? Do Lemmy instances already have high-profile moderators that could attract moderators like these?

[pangolinja]

so no more Ghislaine breaching her incarceration conditions? or is she still going to retail all her current juicy mod privileges?

[DangitBobby]

Any reason whatsoever to believe new mods won't fill this role immediately?

[str3wer]

the point is not if they're getting replaced but if they're able to do so, everyone can become a moderator but how many people can actually moderate?