That really sucks, but it doesn't surprise me either. The events in the UK and New Jersey started as a curiosity, but it seems hysteria and a misinformation campaign is running to disrupt information and possibly cause dissonance/distraction within the government. When I saw that Trump posts about it were being super-upvoted, I stopped following the subject in general. After I got banned in "News" for agreeing with an article quoting Feds claiming most of this is folks IDing planes and hobby drones, I've been considering taking a Reddit hiatus as one of my New Year's resolutions. It's been becoming toxic for a few years now. I stopped actively moderating myself after one of the folks I banned started trying to dox me, and Reddit did nothing about it.
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Does reddit have paid mods now? How do they instantly get a new moderation team together?
Make post, wait for comments, randomly picka few. Ez
I mean, its not like they're gonna prioritize the best people, just pick whatever randos and call it a day, doesn't matter if they are gonna be powetripping all the time.
The admins will probably reopen it and assign moderation to marketing people from one of the big commercial drone manufacturers. Get ready for a flood of giveaways and lots of ads masquerading as innocent fan posts.
Bruh.
Fuck.
That was one of the niche communities that had great info.
Damn. RIP.
Yeah admin will give the mod access to other people same like r/piracy
Someone should tell that moderator about Lemmy!
Sadly, I don't think theres enough Drone enthusiasts here 😓.
Niche communities would never kick off here.
Niche communities used to be all over the place on a bunch of sites and forums, and only kind of recently (last 10 years or so) converged on Reddit. The way "it's on another website" became enough to deter people from visiting makes it feel like we have collectively managed to forget that the internet isn't exclusively made out of the top 10 most visited sites... :(
Someone has to start it
Niche communities would never kick off here.
You can still give it a try!
Not with that attitude it won't 🤷
You an FPV guy or a cinematic guy?
Non-fpv camera drones. I can't really handle the quick reaction needed for fpv. And also I don't really like to be in fpv.
I just explore places. Explore my neighborhood. Just observe as if I was a bird in the sky (I don't hover over people lol, I fly at least 60 meters / 200ft up and just chill and watch the roads and traffic). I sometimes go to a nearby park (that has no drone restrictions) and have a wide unobstructed line of sight, and I explore the park, just fly past people at the park and just watch their reactions (again, not directly over their heads), people seem intrigued. Basically just free roaming the skies, free as a bird (with a limited range due to battery limitations). Longest distance I got was 4000 meter and I barely made it back with less than 10% battery left. I once lost a drone because I forgot about the headwind on the way back. 🙃
I currently have an Autel Evo Nano+
Used to have Potensic Atom (not bad for an "off brand" drone btw)
Before that is just shitty toy-grade "Holystone" drones.
I despise DJI because of Geofencing.
But maybe the small community and fediverse would be a better fit for them. Not necessarily the drones.
I guess there are ways to prevent such outcome by pre-selecting subscribers by level of technical knowledge on the subject.
An online test (chat like) is applied also by private torrent trackers to select uploaders also by tech knowledge of the subject before they are accepted. The same system can be extended.
Unfortunately, this is possible only where are many wanna-be subscribers to choose from the pool.