cross-posted from: https://lemmy.cat/post/3165
cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/580400
As some subreddits continue blackouts to protest Reddit’s plans to charge high prices for its API, Reddit has informed the moderators of those subreddits that it has plans to replace resistant moderation teams to keep spaces “open and accessible to users.”
Edit, there seems to be conflicting reporting on this issue:
While the company does “respect the community’s right to protest” and pledges that it won’t force communities to reopen, Reddit also suggests there’s no need for that.
Source: https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/15/23762501/reddit-ceo-steve-huffman-interview-protests-blackout
Reddit gonna reddit. It’s better here. They are a company making money off us, we ARE us. I’m on lemmy train baby take me down the line!
Choo Choo my friend, Choo Goddamn Choo!!! :)
It would be easier to report on when /u/spez isn’t lying about something.
I JUST read a post that spez said he’s not going to do that…
Well, maybe not him personally…
yeah, but spaz said he’s not gonna do a lot of things.
Turns out he did anyway.
Threatens? They already have!
r/adviceanimals anyone?
Although they might just be salty about that post that hit top of all a few days ago?..
I mean, it was pretty obvious that this was coming
For a company that says they don’t threaten people, they sure do have a lot of rumors about threatening people.
What’s the over/under on how long it’ll take Reddit to institute their own version of the blue checkmark system?
My predictions: reddit gold subscribers get pushed to the top of comments sections, followed by ads showing up inline in comments, and then the introduction of features like a marketplace.
They want to be TikTok and facebook so badly that they are going to forget what makes them unique
I hate all this social network upheaval. Hearing Huffman say “this company needs to grow up” makes me want to THROW up. Do you have any idea what the internet was like back in the 1990s? Hint: opportunists like Huffman weren’t shoving advertisements up everyone’s buttholes.
oh homey no, if you clicked the wrong part of your window when browsing a ROM/lightweight pornographic website in 1996 you could end up with seventeen windows of horse porn popping up endlessly. Had some gentle soul not invented the pop-up blocker, we would have hit full enshittification decades earlier.
Those were the days. Endless horseporn. Wait, what?
I fucking called it.
Don’t you just hate being right? Ugh. I knew this would happen.
