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Reddit Threatens to Remove Moderators From Subreddits Continuing Apollo-Related Blackouts (www.macrumors.com)
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.cat/post/3165

cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/580400

As some subreddits continue blackouts to protest Reddit's plans to charge high prices for its API, Reddit has informed the moderators of those subreddits that it has plans to replace resistant moderation teams to keep spaces "open and accessible to users."

Edit, there seems to be conflicting reporting on this issue:

While the company does “respect the community’s right to protest” and pledges that it won’t force communities to reopen, Reddit also suggests there’s no need for that.

Source: https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/15/23762501/reddit-ceo-steve-huffman-interview-protests-blackout

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I hate all this social network upheaval. Hearing Huffman say "this company needs to grow up" makes me want to THROW up. Do you have any idea what the internet was like back in the 1990s? Hint: opportunists like Huffman weren't shoving advertisements up everyone's buttholes.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

oh homey no, if you clicked the wrong part of your window when browsing a ROM/lightweight pornographic website in 1996 you could end up with seventeen windows of horse porn popping up endlessly. Had some gentle soul not invented the pop-up blocker, we would have hit full enshittification decades earlier.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Those were the days. Endless horseporn. Wait, what?