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Great article, but it does miss one point IMO. Some fights are more important than others. Pao became unpopular among extremists who wanted to be allowed to push hate speech and discrimination. Funny the article didn't mention the revenge porn debacle.
That actually resulted in the Voat fork of reddit, which of course quickly became a cesspool, and ended up failing.
The fight Pao fought was necessary, for reddit to have a shred of respectability, and to even stay legal, and for reddit to not fall into a hole of hate speech and idiocy. Pao took the fall for decency, and was forced to leave. But AFAIK none of the things she did were reversed, because they were necessary.
What Steve Huffman is doing is not necessary, on the contrary it's thoroughly documented to be harmful to reddit as a service in general, and especially for mobile users, and even more so for people who are blind.
There's an enormous difference in the importance of the Hill Pao died on, and the hill Spez chose. However the article is pretty spot on about the difference in how the 2 situations are handled, and how Spez is actively making it worse.