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

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

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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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[-] AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago

So traffic is back to normal but ad clicking is way down? Have they not figured out how to make their bots click the ads?

[-] ugh@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

Traffic to the page for people to buy ads is down. This has been the trend for the past week or so. People are still using reddit, but companies aren't looking to advertise on it.

[-] GreenPlasticSushiGrass@kbin.social 9 points 2 years ago

Next thing you know, we’ll be hearing that Huffman has hired Linda Yaccarino to be the new CEO….

Haha! Yeah, fuckin' Linda, amirite?

Should I know who Linda Yaccarino is?

[-] onepinksheep@kbin.social 6 points 2 years ago

The new Twitter CEO, who we know is really just there to take the fall for Musk's bullshit decisions.

[-] Feweroptions@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 years ago

Just vile

[-] DarthYodaX@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

This seems intentional at this point...

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

Oh that'll stop the problem. If limited threats resulted in people leaving then even more threats will bring people back! Solid logic.

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[-] dullbananas@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 years ago

Open subreddits should only allow posts that are links to Lemmy posts

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[-] Takina_sOldPairTM@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

Literally watchredditdie

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