Reddit CEO slams protesters, says he'll change site rules
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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.

The title is from this video, although that one is very short.

I’m glad I’ve given up on Reddit after the blackout, this proposal to vote out moderators will only encourage raiding, as only the people who pay attention to the votes will decide who stays on. And let’s not forget that one of the cornerstones if Reddit has always been that you can make your own sub.

  • philluminati@kbin.social
    14·
    2 years ago

    They’ve waited a long time to profit from our conversations online for a long time. I mean back in the day reddit didn’t host any content directly until self posts were created. For images and videos you’d always link to YouTube or giffy. Reddit ran quite cheaply and effeciently.

    First Reddit wanted to own the content which is starting offering to host images and videos inside it’s product and now they’re about to paywall it off and wrap it in adverts for their own client. It’s about taking your content and owning it in the sense they can charge for it and it’s taken a few steps to realise this.

    Whether kbin or lemmy or any alternative survives, people should always prefer the approach of keeping content platform netural. Outside of individual forums and walled gardens. Host things outside of slack, outside of Reddit, outside of Facebook so that it’s open to the whole internet and for new platforms in the future.

    Reddit users who want to continue to enjoy Reddit communities should still try and host outside the platform for the benefit of others.