Well, I would welcome said admin on the glorious Fediverse and ask how the last few weeks must have been. No need to act like a rabid redditor. We must be better. (Then watch the admin burst into tears, because that was their first friendly human interaction in years)

Why should we care one way or the other?

Depends if it’s Spez or not. If not then… tentative welcome I guess.

If it is Spez then, well, pitchforks it is.

…are you a Reddit admin?

Shrug. Welcome to the community, admin.

I think most wouldn’t care, “Your magic has no power here” and all that.

Others might tell them to piss off.

On Lemmy they are just another user, so who cares?

I’m technically a reddit mod, over my own private sub with no one but me in it.

What would happen if a Twitter, Facebook, or LinkedIn employee announced where they work?
They would probably get asked about their jobs.

Everyone would ask them about what was going on behind the scenes and if Spez is as short-sighted as he seems. They’d reply they signed NDAs about most of the questions being asked and quickly regret creating a spontaneous AMA and then never log in under that username again.

Pretty much like this:

I think you’d be better received if you just said you were racist or a bigot… personally IDC if they’re here but if one were to announce as such, I think a shitstorm would forever follow their account. Not the kind of clout one usually seeks.

Most famous people don’t go around letting others know of their social media presence. Anonymity is underrated.

Probably welcoming, not every Reddit employee stands behind the decisions made by their management.

If they enjoy to browse Lemmy more then Reddit it doesn’t automatically make them unloyal to their job or a enemy of Lemmy.

I’m not sure that they would be able to cope to be honest. The power that being an admin, small as it may be, is abused systemically in that organisation. Not sure what they would do if they couldn’t mute/ban anyone and everyone around them.

I had a somewhat comparable thing happen. A sub blew up in a modgate. The mod claimed the user base was behaving like children and put us in a timeout (they locked the sub for a while). Then they took away any and all mechanisms for holding the mods accountable. So similar to spez’ approach in spirit.

The users who were upset eventually formed their own sub reddit, the original sub blocked the hell out of users and mentions of the new sub. Eventually the mods had an internal issue and … Came to the new sub to complain about other mods. After a while some newer mods from original sub kept coming over promising every rything and anything was in the works to improve things.

Initial reaction was distrusting, cautious, somewhat constructive and mostly friendly to the newer mods and rather unfriendly to the mods who tried to bring their internal drama to our new space. Eventually newer mods promises went nowhere and then the user base became A LOT more jaded towards newer mods.

In this example people had been shadow banned and abused in modmail, blocked without reason and so on. So the mods had personally and intentionally hurt many users. For reddit the scale is bigger and the pain for most of us isn’t that personal. So I’d hope the reception would be slightly warmer.