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submitted 2 years ago by L4s@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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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[-] Tandybaum@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago

I mod a small/mid size sub that is still blacked out. Should I leave it private or just let it get overrun with spam?

[-] Martin_AAurelius@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago

Sell promoted posts directly, admins have made it abundantly clear they're in it for money over community, get your cheddar too.

[-] Olgratin_Magmatoe@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago

You don't owe reddit anything.

[-] GladiusB@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago
[-] Chonk@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

Shift the community to lemmy and write a pinned post on reddit about the change.

Request members to delete their reddit post.

[-] CaptPretentious@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

That would have been a lot easier before the API change. Not sure if that's an easy task anymore (pegging old content)

[-] KairuByte@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

I’m a mod over on r/NoahGetTheBoat and I haven’t even opened reddit more than a couple times since Apollo died.

this post was submitted on 30 Jun 2023
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