postmarketOS has posted to their Mastodon: “So Reddit has sent us this nice “either you open up your subreddit or else” letter too. We will keep the subreddit private, let’s see what their “next steps” look like.”…

  • @Sir_Simon_Spamalot
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    271 year ago

    spez definitely thought he can get away doing twitter bullshit, not knowing that the Reddit community is an entirely different beast

    • @kurkOP
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      221 year ago

      It seems the model where they encouraged volunteer moderators to be in charge of their own corner of reddit is coming back to haunt them. I assume this is why lemmy is so vibrant right now. Most internet users are sheep but the people fleeing reddit are the sub-section who actually do stuff on social media, not just consume. I wonder if reddit has realised this and is offering salaries to key people it has identified who were previously unpaid mods to stem the exodus.

      • @Sir_Simon_Spamalot
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        131 year ago

        I wonder if reddit has realised this and is offering salaries to key people it has identified who were previously unpaid mods to stem the exodus.

        I doubt that. They seem to be stern on that downward spiral path.

        • nameless_prole
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          61 year ago

          Steve Huffman just wants to sell the company and get that sweet sweet golden parachute. He probably knows his time as CEO is not long.

      • ඞmir
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        51 year ago

        Imagine if they now lose more money from having to pay mods compared to the gains from forcing people onto their own datamining app…

        Wouldn’t that be a nice world to live in?