Reddit

I think one of the most valuable things about this situation is that it lays bare the relationship between users/mods and admins/employees/owners of reddit. I think most users and mods lived in willful delusion that they kind of owned their own data and communities, and admins/employees/owners just sort of maintained infrastructure and made money from ads and unspecified backend data stuff...

It's now forced that ownership question into the open in stark terms: users and mods don't own their data or their communities and their sweat equity, as it were, is not valued by the admin/employee/owner group when it really comes down to it.

That's something I miss about my old bulletin board home; I could never imagine the admin team strong arming users over shit like this. It's antithetical to the very ethos of the place - hell, I still send them $5 / month for old times sake to keep the servers up.

Reddit sold out years ago and it's really just now hitting the fan.