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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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[–] yrmitz 110 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (15 children)

I am glad that this happened because Lemmy is very interesting platform.

[–] scarabic 78 points 2 years ago (14 children)

I’ve barely been back to Reddit recently and with Apollo gone, I’ll only ever duck my head in when I really have to. I find it a lot easier to leave Reddit behind than Facebook. On FB I’m connected to real world relatives and friends who I just would lose contact with otherwise. On Reddit I converse with strangers and that’s easy to replace. Lemmy has already done it. Is there anything unique about the hobby forums on Reddit? No. They can be reassembled or restarted elsewhere. In some ways it’s probably good to dump the old structures and shake things up. Some subs were better managed and some really just coasted on their name.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The only thing that had me back on Reddit was searching for something on DDG and getting 99% Reddit results. I see why they are un-deleting people's comments and posts when they close their accounts. Hopefully other forums take those spots.

[–] rskn 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That explains why I kept trying to purge my history and having some posts keep popping back up.

[–] drzoidberg 3 points 2 years ago

Get yourself banned. I don't think they restore content of banned accounts.

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