• Yaztromo@lemmy.world
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    9 months 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.

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      They emailed me too. Guess I was a power user, because I wasn’t a mod!

      I ignored it. It’s especially egregious because I’m Canadian, and I think it’s for Americans only.

      Since they killed third-party apps, I think I’ve gotten more emails from them than the number of times I’ve signed in. Haven’t even posted a single comment since RIF died.

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        Canadian here as well, and no — we can’t participate. Not that it hasn’t stopped them from contacting me several times anyway.

        Unfortunately, even if this IPO crashes and burns the real villains in this story are going to make it out with millions in their pockets.

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          I didn’t know too much about canning before the drama last summer (except that it’s hard physical kitchen labor I’d rather not do), but when I read what was going on it was clear you guys were really holding the line against the continual bombardment of the sub with truly unsafe “hacks” and “shortcuts” and “it never hurt me and I’ve been doing it for years” posts. I am absolutely convinced there are a non-zero number of people who are alive because you stopped them from this stupidity, and the painstaking, precise work you put into sourcing your statements and linking the science was quite impressive even to this total non-canner.

          And then Reddit admin put their scabs in anyway.

          Which is to say that Reddit admin is made of fools. I split in solidarity when the API changes kicked the accessibility users off (the third party app devs were the ONLY folks who cared enough in almost two decades to make Reddit usable for anyone needing accessibility) but afterward, reading about what they did to gut harm reduction in various subs like r/canning just convinced me that I was right to consider them literally conscienceless and take my posting elsewhere.

          Their loss. In so many ways. Glad you’re here on Lemmy too.

          • Yaztromo@lemmy.world
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            Canning can be zen — with a bit of practice it’s not that difficult, and it’s often easy to find someone who is willing to help out. I’m often canning with friends or family — and it’s often as easy as throwing the right ingredients into a pot, bringing them to a boil, ladling it into prepared jars, and letting them sit in the pot.

            As we built up the community, dealing with the “tide of crap” did get easier for us as moderators — we had a good core community of regular users who would quickly flag things that were dangerous, and with an automod rule to auto-remove posts with 5 such reports meant that we were often able to moderate posts of concern while they were private. But it took work to build up the community to the point where it was self-policing. I’m hoping that resiliency we tried to build up has continued to keep the community safe.

            Glad to be here on Lemmy as well. Online discussion boards have been my bread and butter since the grand old BBS days of the mid-80s.

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        They must have an insane definition of power user, because I got one too and I’m absolutely not a power user. Maybe longtime active users got the email as well?

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          Account age + recent activity might be one threshold, though I didn’t get one for my mostly abandoned/much older account.

          It might’ve also been karma, which I had a lot of. But I’ll admit that I was probably a “power user” before the API changes, lol

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      Are you saying that they… canned you?

      Sorry I couldn’t resist.

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

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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.

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        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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        I’m glad people think so — we really wanted to help build an online community of people who could share their joy of home canning, where safety and adhering to the best scientific principles was respected. The most gratifying results were when we would hear from some new canner who were able to get over some fears they had around safety and completed their first successful canning project.

        I haven’t been back to check on the situation since we got the boot, but I hope for the sake of the community there are still people there keeping to this credo. A jar of food just isn’t something worth getting sick (or worse!) over.

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      I got the offer too even though I left in June. 2 million karma, 11 year user. F SPEZ.

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        I also left in June, and also got the offer. My karma was in the low 6 figures and I had been on for like 5 or 6 years. Honestly, a low bar

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        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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        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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        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.