fne8w2ahReddit takes control of popular subreddit that protested API changes | Engadget
It’s ridiculous to me that there are still people volunteering to moderate, Reddit had such a good deal with running mostly on free labor that is satisfied with some scraps here and there.
And what do they do? Turn the people who are sustaining their business and ask for nothing in return hostile towards them over some penny pinching.
OctaviusI was surprised as well but after watching some streamers doing r/place I learned that there are quite a lot of users who never used 3rd party apps and weren’t really touched by all the protests… The amount of questions “who is u/Spez” in the chat was also quite high. So they might have driven away a large chunk of the power users. But the remaining and the regular users are enough to keep it running I guess. As sad as this is.
Yes, user-wise this won’t really negatively impact Reddit this is why I called it penny pinching, they weren’t losing out on huge amounts of money with the 3rd party apps. What I was mostly referring to is that moderators are mostly power users who either used 3rd party apps personally or used them because the moderator tools inside of them were way better than Reddit’s native ones.