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Here it comes - Reddit admins taking over subs (lemmy.intai.tech)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by manitcor@lemmy.intai.tech to c/lemmyworld@lemmy.world

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lemmy.world IS NOT a general discussion area. find another community.

my bad....

-manitcor

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[-] Bowen@lemmy.world 60 points 1 year ago

When people add you as a mod, you can still leave. He never did. That subreddit in particular was known to have the blessing of the reddit admins to operate and eventually made 'subreddit of the month'. Then a news org picked up that reddit was hosting this content and then they shut it down.

They were well aware of what was going on. Andrewsmith is right, there is some plausible deniability there, but with the everything else we know about Steve Huffman, I'm not so sure I can agree with his assessment that it was forced upon him.

[-] roboticide@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

Andrewsmith is right,

As he often is. That guy knows more about Reddit than Huffman does. Hope he moves to Lemmy.

[-] MrPoopyButthole@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

He let Ghislain Maxwell mod a bunch of subs until she eventually went to jail. It was common knowledge that its was her account but no problem from the pedo reddit admins

[-] STRIKINGdebate2@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

It was never proven that the account was hers and it was literally just users automatically claiming that account was Ghislaine Maxwell because that account stopped posting around the same time she got arrested. Nothing bugs me more than that myth being parroted as if it was proven fact.