In my opinion, the Reddit Blackout was essentially moderators acting as a personal army for app developer.

Even goes the ancient rules of redditquitte

Ask people to Troll others on Reddit, in real life, or on other blogs/sites. We aren’t your personal army.

  • HobbitFoot
    2•5 months ago

    Reddit never offered a chance for apps to pay; this became very clear during negotiations.

    Mods left because a lot of moderator tools developed by moderators requires API access and Reddit was very slow to develop acceptable internal tools. At that point, a lot of mods got frustrated and left.

    • @[email protected]OP
      -3•5 months ago

      The vast majority of mods, including the organisers of blackout, are still using Reddit.

      here is list of organisers of blackout taken from Moderator Coordination subreddit.

      • Femilip - active
      • Buckrowdy - active
      • TheSebtacular - inactive
      • LustyLizardLady - active
      • demmian - active
      • LunarOlympian - inactive
      • esoterix_luke - active
      • SpicyThunder335 - active
      • YourResidentFeral - active

      So 77% are still active.