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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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[-] Koopa_Khan@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago

I don’t get how people put up with that either. My wife said that we were being over dramatic about the 3rd Party Apps protests, but will agree that the ads are annoying. Hopefully she’ll convert over here before to long and get a taste for how a message board should be.

[-] YarRe@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago

Stockholmed into thinking ads are acceptable. They're not. No social contract says that you have to put up with ads, they're simply unregulated in the USA and people have mostly given up.

[-] ArbitraryMary@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

Reddit ads are way too intrusive and irrelevant.

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