The funniest part of the article is how he’s slamming the actions of unpaid moderators while saying “they’re mad because they used to get something for free, and now it’s going to be not free”.
Pretty damn rich coming from the CEO of a website that makes no content of its own.
Never mind all those mods who work for free that they’re chosing to screw over and sabotage. I’m sure this won’t have any negative consequences.
We’re gonna see reddit go the “free speech” route because that’s cheaper than hiring mods. Course they could have kept things the way they were and got their mods for free, but w/e lmao.
Reddit is gonna get flooded with garbage content and bigoted shit and most people are gonna leave. Hopefully they’ll come here.
Today I made the jump and deleted my last account. I used Reddit one way or another for the last 16 years. It feels weird, but at the same time, I simply couldn’t support the platform anymore. Being honest, it hasn’t been like the platform I once loved using for a long time. Bots run rampant, the same two to three memes get regurgitated over and over and Spez has just been the idiot to break the camel’s back.
Unless you purged your content before deleting you didn’t really do much.
Since they are restoring deleted comments purging your content isn’t doing much more. What a scum bag company. Lol
I think I will wait a bit to try and delete mine. Hopefully they get tired of cat and mouse delete game.
Welcome here! I also deleted all my accounts. First felt weird, but now I found Lemmy I don’t look back. I don’t want to support a business run by such a lunatic.
Going to be interesting to see how much more active it gets in the coming weeks
spez is an angry little man because someone is ruining his payout
Really, the best part about all this shit is Reddit could’ve implemented a paid 3rd party API that wasn’t insane. They could’ve updated their terms of service and required 3rd party apps to display ads. Shit, they could’ve leveraged the existing OAuth stuff to limit the 3rd party API access to users with Reddit Gold.
But nah, spez decided to be a greedy shitbird.
A big fuck you to Reddit users from the CEO of a company crumbling itself to pieces.
This is incredibly funny, a sub I was a mod on wanted to vote on mods and the admins stepped in and said we couldn’t do it
