Reddit is reaching out to moderators after tensions rose over recent policy changes and API pricing. A Reddit admin acknowledged the strained relationship and outlined new weekly feedback sessions and other outreach efforts to repair ties. However, moderators remain skeptical of Reddit’s efforts given mixed results from past initiatives. Many mods feel Reddit has been unwilling to make meaningful changes to address their concerns like more accessible API pricing or exemption for accessibility apps. After a tumultuous few months, moderators have very low expectations that Reddit’s latest efforts will result in real changes.
This is also why many communities have failed to launch on migrating off of Twitter. They don’t have a ready-made, prepped, and universally agreed upon landing site, and intersectionality of communities prevents them from actually finding one, so they’re all individually faced with the prospect of leaving their online communities and starting over, or staying put.
I sit on the periphery of most of my interest groups. I’m a loosely bound valence member, and many of my interests are also just well represented here in the Fediverse, so setting up shop here just wasn’t an issue. But for people who are more tightly bound, it’s going to feel like there are overwhelming barriers to leaving.