Reddit CEO lashes out on protests, moderators and third-party apps
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In interviews with multiple publications, Reddit CEO Steve Huffman defended business decisions made by the company.

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In response to Huffman’s comments, moderators are trying to find ways to make blackouts effective. Alternatively, some communities are also setting up servers on alternative sites like Lemmy and Kbin.

  •  Anomander   ( @Anomander@kbin.social ) 
    9•1 year ago

    They really should be talking about how these changes are going to be affecting reddit’s sources of information.

    Yeah. Protest and discourse on reddit about these changes and their impact on the site and its communities has been unfortunately domineered and nearly hijacked by the mods leading the protests. That has meant the average user has a hard time understanding how their experience will be affected - and made it incredibly easy for Reddit Inc to spin the conflict as “between Admin and Moderation, with users being caught in the crossfire” - instead of being about the changes and consequences of cutting API access to all users’ experience on the site.

    Admin over there has weaponized the userbase’ underlying distrust for mods against the protest as a whole, and a large number of mods have fed that perception by acting unilaterally with regards to protest actions.

    •  HobbitFoot   ( @HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club ) 
      2•1 year ago

      Mods give Reddit plausible deniability with its users regarding unpopular policies. However, admins have allowed mods to camp as a way to maintain loyalty. Mod governance at Reddit is a joke because the admins let it be a joke.