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…

  • @[email protected]
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    531 year ago

    At the end of the day, Reddit is just a message board. The absolute hubris to think that one could seriously go public with a message board website… It’s baffling.

    Honestly, Reddit missed the ship to IPO. They should have done it a decade ago if at all.

    Without mods, Reddit will become overrun with bots, rendering the precious data Reddit so desparately tries to monetize practically useless.

    • @[email protected]
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      161 year ago

      I mod a small/mid size sub that is still blacked out. Should I leave it private or just let it get overrun with spam?

      • @[email protected]
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        161 year ago

        Sell promoted posts directly, admins have made it abundantly clear they’re in it for money over community, get your cheddar too.

      • @[email protected]
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        51 year ago

        Shift the community to lemmy and write a pinned post on reddit about the change.

        Request members to delete their reddit post.

        • @[email protected]
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          21 year ago

          That would have been a lot easier before the API change. Not sure if that’s an easy task anymore (pegging old content)

      • KairuByte
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        31 year ago

        I’m a mod over on r/NoahGetTheBoat and I haven’t even opened reddit more than a couple times since Apollo died.