Derek Powazek 🐐Jun 15, 2023
2023 really is the year of bad men finding out they can be bad enough to ruin their community sites permanently. https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/reddit-protest-blackout-ceo-steve-huffman-moderators-rcna89544
Reddit CEO slams protesters, says he'll change moderator rules

Steve Huffman, the Reddit CEO, said in an interview that a user protest on the site this week does not have wide support and is led by a minority of moderators.

NBC News
Show threadRoss! at the LibraryJun 16, 2023

@fraying He really went to NPR to talk about how much money he wants to make off the content users give him. 🙄

"Reddit represents one of the largest datasets of just human beings talking about interesting things," Huffman said. "We are not in the business of giving that away for free." https://www.npr.org/2023/06/15/1182457366/reddit-ceo-steve-huffman-its-time-we-grow-up-and-behave-like-an-adult-company

Show threadAri Ofsevit
@LibraryofBabble @fraying so basically we should all John Galt the machinery of the social media world. Maybe ayn rand was right?
Jun 16, 2023 at 1:33pmWeb