However, late last night, shortly before midnight (CEST), Reddit admins posted the following update publicly:

“If a moderator team unanimously decides to stop moderating, we will invite new, active moderators to keep these spaces open and accessible to users. If there is no consensus, but at least one mod who wants to keep the community going, we will respect their decisions and remove those who no longer want to moderate from the mod team.”

Shortly thereafter, Reddit began sending out messages to mod teams, containing the following:

“If there are mods here who are willing to work towards reopening this community, we are willing to work with you to process a Top Mod Removal request or reorder the mod team to achieve this goal if mods higher up the list are hindering reopening. We would handle this request and any retaliation attempts here in this modmail chain immediately”.

  • FactuallyUnscrupulou [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    I must apologize, I have two older brothers born 80 & 83 who despise the millennial tag and do the thing where they call themselves xennials. It's created a personal block where I only see 85-95 as millennial and the early 80's babies can be a fractured third thing if they please.

      • daisy
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        1 year ago

        I'm in that same boat. I do identify far more as a millennial though, because I got started on my postsecondary education fairly late, got started on the internet quite early, and didn't have any elder gen-X cousins as cultural influences.

        • FactuallyUnscrupulou [he/him]
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          1 year ago

          Like you two have said my bros call themselves Xennials because they avoided all the economic ramifications. They got degrees just before the recession so they got hired as cheap replacements for the experienced staff being laid off. They were able to start investing and building home equity while I had to struggle both academically and professionally through my 20's.

        • came_apart_at_Kmart [he/him, comrade/them]
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          1 year ago

          same and same. i think it was being shit broke during my 20s, doing college ~10 years "late" (post-GFC), developing a solidly millennial cohort, and generally being more discerning about being online.

          the Xers and cuspers haven't taken a class about anything since ~2000, rarely realize how bad climate destabilization is, and many are at this point of careerist nihilism & tunnel vision because they think they're all going to be allowed to retire with the brass ring if they don't make waves. they don't want to know about empire or fast fashion or coltan mining. they're too bought in.

          i'm just out here like a guy wearing a sandwich board that says, "THE SHOW IS OVER" and let me tell you, they are NOT making eye contact.

          • daisy
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            1 year ago

            i’m just out here like a guy wearing a sandwich board that says, “THE SHOW IS OVER” and let me tell you, they are NOT making eye contact.

            I work with a whole bunch of people like this. They think that late-summer weather with almost no rain in the southern Ontario climate in fucking spring is a good thing. The ones that think climate change is possibly real think it's decades off from causing devastating problems. They think that the wildfires this spring across the country are "bad luck", and not the result of bone-dry forests that had almost no snowfall and high temperatures. It drives me crazy.