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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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[–] tallwookie@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

lol spez literally killed the platform with draconian policies. this is going to be something that is mentioned in college courses for decades.

probably not how he wanted to leave his mark on history...

[–] FaceDeer@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's unprecedented for a major link aggregator that's basically king of its niche to make such a boneheaded self-destructive decision and drive its userbase to a newer competitor like this. Definitely one for the history books.

[–] _WC@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] GONADS125@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm just glad I got to StumbleUpon Lemmy.

[–] picnic@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago