Very suspicious. Something strange is happening, at least two subreddits on my radar have just unexpectedly reopened with unusually positive comments heavily upvoted despite being against the tone of everything before, I've seen others reporting similar.

Edit: Also, a thread was originally posted by someone questioning the opening up, it was quickly hidden (it got supportive replies) and is now locked. Edit again: in less than an hour there have been several such threads that have vanished.

To be fair CasualUK was the only sub keeping me active on reddit, even before the API changes. It's gonna be an adjustment getting my news etc from other sources, but so far, this community here is hitting the spot pretty well. I'd much rather be here if that's how quickly they caved :(

Regardless of their reasoning for reopening, the censorship type attitude now emanating from the sub is terrible news.

Welp, they deleted all the comments in the stickied thread about remaining read only indefinitely. I refreshed and the stickied thread was deleted. Guess it's full take over time.

Gotta be honest, I assumed it already was. I've genuinely not had the urge to visit Reddit in days.

Victory!

Does anybody have a comparison between the mod lists before and after the blackout? It would be interesting to see whether any changes happened in that area.

UKcasual needs to come home to feddit.uk, just my 2 pence

Traitors

My all time favourite subreddit hands down.

But as soon as my GDPR subject access request has yielded my reddit data to me I'll be deleting my account there and saying goodbye to 9 years and half a million fake internet points.

It definitely feels freeing and lemmy definitely feels more involved, more intimate, and less shitty.

The post and comments are weirdly surreal, as if the blackout never happened. none of the posts or comments even seem to mention it. Creepy!

They've added a sticky explaining (sort of) their reasoning. And also apologizing to those who think they should remain closed. I was going to cut and paste some parts but then the 5 minute daily screen timer I've imposed for 'the app that shall not be named' ran out.

Something about standing in front of a dam with a sieve.

There was definitely a sticky stating that it would remain read only indefinitely. I'd be surprised if the mods had just changed their minds without some sort of discussion from the sub. Probably Reddit forcing it.

It feels like a weak rationale for reopening. I think we can all agree with that?

It's a shame, but I really do feel it was inevitable for people to buckle. Moderators are heavily invested in their communities for right and wrong reasons... and the users are just following muscle memory. They've been to that website daily and for most the API changes just don't have any impact on them at all. Well at least that they are aware of at this current point in time.

Wow that was a rapid 180! I wonder what happened behind the scenes with the team

It was always going to happen. Big companies like this make unpopular decisions for business reasons. In some cases there's an outcry, and for social media sites that outcry is amplified by the simple nature of the site, but it always dies down.

Most people simply don't give a shit about this stuff and Reddit will make more money from the 90+% of people who remain then those who left anyway.

My only hope is that shearing off of some customers is enough to make this a sustainable community here in the same way that happened for Mastodon.