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Reddit Ramps Up Its Threats To Protesting Mods, As Ad Buyers Leave (www.techdirt.com)

submitted 2 years ago by L4s@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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The landed gentry are only in charge until the king comes to town and chops off a few heads. At least that seems to be the case at Reddit, where CEO Steve Huffman pretended his complaints about current moderators — who were protesting his decision to effectively cut off API access to tons of useful…

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[–] dullbananas@lemmy.ca 17 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Open subreddits should only allow posts that are links to Lemmy posts

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[–] g0zer@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago (17 children)

I feel like old af now that I’ve watched two huge sites implode due to mismanagement. I was a Digg refuge way back, and now here I am on lemmy…

[–] adinfinitum@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago (4 children)

3 sites if you include Twitter . Twitter and Reddit seem to be in a mismanagement competition right now. Not sure who's winning

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[–] Takina_sOldPairTM@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago

Literally watchredditdie

[–] GreenPlasticSushiGrass@kbin.social 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Next thing you know, we’ll be hearing that Huffman has hired Linda Yaccarino to be the new CEO….

Haha! Yeah, fuckin' Linda, amirite?

Should I know who Linda Yaccarino is?

[–] onepinksheep@kbin.social 14 points 2 years ago

The new Twitter CEO, who we know is really just there to take the fall for Musk's bullshit decisions.

[–] myc@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Reddit's not just happy with user's content and labor, but now also wants compliments. Slavery with extra steps.

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[–] AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

So traffic is back to normal but ad clicking is way down? Have they not figured out how to make their bots click the ads?

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[–] DarthYodaX@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

This seems intentional at this point...

[–] Feweroptions@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 years ago

Just vile

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