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Reddit Ramps Up Its Threats To Protesting Mods, As Ad Buyers Leave (www.techdirt.com)
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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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[–] dx1@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They're trying hard to make it like this is some issue about moderators, but they're just the most vocal group complaining about reddit trying to lock down its entire service for monetization and harming all users (and especially vulnerable users) in the process. Always be mindful of people trying to shift the focus like that.

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

They're ramping up bots to cover the loss of users.

Very very few people actually post, and a little more comment. But as bot posts became the majority, lurkers are going to start leaving as quality dips.