Advance, the company that controls Reddit, would be wise to replace the CEO whose mismanagement and arrogance has led moderators of thousands of subreddits to go private in protest.
Put someone in place who realizes that the communities made the service in every way that matters.
Maybe Advance is hoping the protestors will go weak-kneed (as so many people on Twitter have done, sadly) and return.
Moderators, please, please don't back down on this. Stay dark.
(Corrected re extent of strike..)
@dangillmor they won’t. The CEO wouldn’t be CEO if his actions weren’t in line with their overall strategy and values.
If they replace him because of the poor PR, his replacement will be someone more or less identical.
@dangillmor I don't think this is actually about third-party apps. It's about data scraping by AI companies that train LLMs using Reddit as a dataset. More importantly, they're upset that they don't see any cashback on that.
Had it been about third party clients using too many API calls, they'd just tie the number of API calls to the user auth, and force users to get Gold if they want to use third party clients after exceeding a certain call limit.
It's not about the ads, that's just a plus.
Dan Gillmor
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