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

submitted 1 year 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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[–] sweBers@lemmy.fmhy.ml 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hey, I loved watching people nerd out on their flashlights! Actually, I was there to get insight on how they were building their own awesome lights, and trying to understand what the difference between lights was.

[–] turmacar@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Exactly, that is a useful resource. It came to mind because I used it to figure out what was worth it when I needed to buy a new one. A flashlight company pretending to be part of it makes it less useful.

[–] sweBers@lemmy.fmhy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

IIRC the vendors were obligated to identify themselves. Some of the vendors were just people making hardware mods, too.