What we’re learning from the Reddit blackout

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What we’re learning from the Reddit blackout
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Five lessons and one open question.

, and some moderators say they intend to keep up the disruption until Reddit walks back its announced changes.

While Facebook and Twitter attempted to govern vast global audiences with a one-size-fits-all set of rules, Reddit’s approach brought context and community to its niche forums. Making it work, though, required an army of volunteer moderators to set up and enforce their subreddits’ particular rules. As we’ve seen over the past week, collectively those moderators wield real power:

“If you’re a politician or a business owner, you are accountable to your constituents. So a politician needs to be elected, and a business owner can be fired by its shareholders,” Huffman told Ingram. “And I think, on Reddit, the analogy is closer to the landed gentry: The people who get there first get to stay there and pass it down to their descendants, and that is not democratic.”, but so far has not, simply overridden moderators’ decisions and turned all the dark subreddits public again.

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