Steve Huffman, the Reddit CEO, told NBC News in an interview that a user protest on the site this week is led by a minority of moderators and doesn’t have wide support.
  • CannaVet@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    Did anybody else lose the ability to report? I guess that’s why I got a week ban for “report abuse” even though the linked report was agreed with and actioned by Reddit, they’re starting to take down anyone flagging the Christoterroism shit since Spez has allied up with Musk.

  • fubo@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    When a tree dies, it dies slowly. The heart of it rots, and then the roots stop growing, and only much later do the branches stop growing new green leaves. By the time the whole trunk falls over, there’ve been raccoons burrowing into the rotten heartwood for years.

        • flint5436@lemmy.world
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          2 years ago

          Then be the racoon. Drive up the cost. Upload hour-long videos of white noise or pictures of John Oliver beeing sexy. I think I am going to create a couple of throwaway accounts just to show how unprofitable reddit can be ;)

  • scutiger@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    This week’s rebellion is a response to part of Reddit’s plan to succeed as a business

    Not a hint of bias in this article, is there?

  • tchotchony@mander.xyz
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    2 years ago

    As I go back there now after the protest, I find reddits’ content less and less interesting. I used to be able to lose hours on there, now I get bored after 5 minutes and get back to lemmy. It’ll keep on existing, but here’s hoping many more mainstream and non-techy users like me found the fediverse and know there’s valid alternatives now.

    • Morcyphr@lemmy.one
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      2 years ago

      I went back there for like 3 minutes today and found myself getting angry at some stupid argument that didn’t matter to me really but still got to me. I don’t need that, I got enough irl. Lemmy et al. ain’t perfect, but at least it’s not that shithole.

  • spark431@kbin.social
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    2 years ago

    Does this dude even use reddit? The proper response on reddit to users not agreeing with mods is to start their own sub to fill the void. That’s what happened with r/animetitties. But guess what - no one is doing that because we all don’t want to see these changes. Sorry to vent more about this loser, but c’mon man.

  • Tempiz@sh.itjust.works
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    2 years ago

    I love the irony of him calling Reddit a democracy while also refusing to budge on the API issue. You can’t have it both ways.

  • DarthRedLeader@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    So part of the issue with this “democracy” idea and making it easier to vote out mods is that Huffman has literally been found guilty of changing comments.

    That, along with the fact that we can’t trust reddit to not chime in with false accounts to swing the vote make me dubious that it would work.

    • gmmxle@lemmy.world
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      2 years ago

      I’ll start believing in Reddit’s commitment to direct democracy when users will be able to also vote out admins and u/spez if they don’t like their decisions.

      Until then, it’s just corporatism under the guise of some fluffy words.

      • SterlingVapor@lemmy.world
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        2 years ago

        It’s like when you let kids vote on what to do for the school faire.

        Not only will the teacher and school change the result if they don’t like the winning suggestion, you also can’t vote to do nothing or protest the event

        It’s just a way to give you the illusion of autonomy to boost engagement. It’s only a choice between the decisions they find (more or less) equally acceptable

  • SlingerOGrady@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    If I can’t win I’ll make my own rules…Jesus guy just admit you were wrong.

    Side note, did anyone see how /r/Pics handled this after they opened back up because it was beautiful. Around 2300 users voted to open /r/Pics again and 37k users voted to keep protesting in their own special way.

      • DarthRedLeader@lemmy.world
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        2 years ago

        In the interview, Huffman also praised the cost-cutting by Twitter owner Elon Musk, calling the reduced headcount there an example of how a social media site can be without the massive revenue of a company like Google.

        I mean, wtf

        • bionicjoey@lemmy.ca
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          2 years ago

          calling the reduced headcount there an example of how a social media site can be without the massive revenue of a company like Google.

          My brother in Christ, you raised the head count

  • Kaiser@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    After seeing what r/pics and r/gifs are doing I doubt voting would work out in his favor anyway. A surprising about of the user base is behind the protest.

    • MTO@lemmy.world
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      2 years ago

      It’s just a matter of migrating them to a new platform. Lemmy has a small learning curve, but unfortunately it’s enough to turn off a lot of users. Hopefully with the influx of users, someone smarter than me can figure out how to streamline the user experience here.