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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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[–] DrMario 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sure it will put off some users, but those are the lowest effort type of users anyway. I think most people who were online enough to be heavy reddit posters will not have much of an issue grasping how Lemmy works

[–] ABCDE 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It needs everyone to be part of it. I'm no idiot (arguably), but I still don't quite get why I need an account for Kbin and for Lemmy and... just to use it properly. The concept was that I needed one account which linked to everything, yet that's not the case. I'm in the process of deleting all my reddit posts with Power Delete Suite and it's taking a while, but this needs to be better if it wants to get people like myself (and those who aren't so tech-savvy) across.

[–] DrMario 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Maybe I’m the one confused here, but you shouldn’t need a kbin account. You can subscribe and post to kbin communities just like you can to other Lemmy instances

[–] ABCDE 1 points 1 year ago

I registered on Kbin but couldn't post here, so I made another account. I'm not sure.