[mardifoufs]

I'm not siding with the admins, to be clear. I really really dislike how Reddit has been run. Always been a shithole, one way or the other.

But I also think that powermods are a net negative for the website and have turned moderation on Reddit into a joke.

At the end of the day I think users are the "proles" here. And most of them just want to use Reddit for things like tech support or purchasing advice or discussing video games.

That a few mods are able to take ownership of communities that aren't theirs (the community is the users, not the mods imo) and close them down is pretty meh.

I personally would never use Reddit once RiF stops working (and I mean it, I can't even get myself to use the old Reddit interface).

But this is a weird temper tantrum imo that is typical of Reddit; a very tiny minority of third party apps users and even commercial third party app devs shutting down stuff that isn't theirs because they dont have it their way. Again, basically 90% of users just use the new Reddit app and website sadly enough.