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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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[–] Pregnenolone 47 points 2 years ago (4 children)

While I want to it be a little bit busier, I'm pleased that we're not at the low-effort comment point e.g. every other comment being a pun or a shitpost or "this"

[–] FlyingSquid 16 points 2 years ago

I'm old enough to remember the Eternal September on Usenet when AOL allowed their users to access it and there was a huge influx of people just posting "me too," often in replies to replies to replies to replies of someone saying "me too."

Let's hope Lemmy never reaches that level.

[–] duffkiligan 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

^^^ THIS X 10000000 xDDD

[–] fluffyrex 3 points 2 years ago

🤣

[–] Ryumast3r 5 points 2 years ago

"Came here to say this"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Indeed. Honestly, what I'm missing is the high effort posts in slightly less active communities, especially things like r/nosleep or r/bestofredditorupdates.