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.
  • scutiger@lemmy.world
    3·
    1 year 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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    1 year 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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      1 year 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.

      • skillissuer@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        if you get people to argue, you can pump users engagement statistics. same with conspiracy theories, and neither makes place that does this worth visiting (like facebook does)

  • CannaVet@lemmy.world
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    1 year 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.

  • Kaiser@lemmy.world
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    1 year 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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      1 year 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.

  • fubo@lemmy.world
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    1 year 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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          1 year 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 ;)

  • Sens@feddit.uk
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    1 year ago

    Will just lead to even more leaving.

    Like I give a fuck anyway, reddit is dead to me now. Died a long time ago when my front page, even advice animals, got clogged with political and mediocre posts.

    Reddit went mediocre a long time ago

  • SlingerOGrady@lemmy.world
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    1 year 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.

  • Tempiz@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year 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.

  • spark431@kbin.social
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    1 year 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.

      • DarthRedLeader@lemmy.world
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        1 year 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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          1 year 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