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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    341 year ago

    It’s worth mentioning the article said prior to the blackout ads saw ~14,500 clicks so they’re currently down 40-50%

    • Osa-Eris-Xero512
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      131 year ago

      It’ll be interesting to see which advertisers are the ones which think the current state of affairs provides a good ad platform for their orgs.

    • The Picard Maneuver
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      91 year ago

      That’s significant, and it doesn’t surprise me. Even if I wanted to keep using reddit, the content has taken a nose-dive and the mood sucks now, so I bet people have cut their usage down.