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bmurphy1976yesterday at 9:15 PM2 repliesview on HN

Let's never forget the summer of 2023 when Reddit forceably removed mods from many major communities and replaced them with corporate shills. That was a major loss of dedicated people who cared more for their communities than Spez's pocket book.


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traderj0etoday at 1:11 AM

The ones who got removed were shutting down their pages to protest API changes, right? Pride comes before the fall I guess

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alex1138yesterday at 10:44 PM

The internet is rather trending in that direction, isn't it? Youtube got rid of downvotes and apparently upload dates, which seems like an easier way to trick people into ads. And Reddit, like you said

If these platforms had to listen to "their customers" (here comes the inevitable comment about how users aren't customers; yes, I know)? They'd all be fired. They'd have to find a new job. They all act in incredibly insulting ways with a too big to fail attitude