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Reddit Ramps Up Its Threats To Protesting Mods, As Ad Buyers Leave (www.techdirt.com)
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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…

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Personally the redditbusiness page marketing to advertisers reads like wishful thinking or something straight from /r/boringdystopia.

"Look there's places where people come to discuss flashlight options and other users/google results trust them! Pay us money to look like you're part of that! It's not creepy to try and co-opt at all!"

I'm not surprised that their interface isn't great, they haven't paid for developers to do anything other than try to look more like twitter/facebook in a long time.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I had no idea about this. This is the weirdest goddamned thing. I found so much that I made a whole separate post. Thank you for bringing this to my attention. I had no idea.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Amazing how much bullshit people produce and then also sell.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hey, I loved watching people nerd out on their flashlights! Actually, I was there to get insight on how they were building their own awesome lights, and trying to understand what the difference between lights was.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Exactly, that is a useful resource. It came to mind because I used it to figure out what was worth it when I needed to buy a new one. A flashlight company pretending to be part of it makes it less useful.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

IIRC the vendors were obligated to identify themselves. Some of the vendors were just people making hardware mods, too.