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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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[-] anders@rytter.me 171 points 1 year ago

@manitcor Wtf!! What an asshole CEO

[-] boonhet@lemm.ee 329 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

So far Spez's legacy includes, in no particular order:

Changing other peoples' comments
Starting a war with the 3rd party app devs who made reddit the easily accessible platform it is (browsing reddit on the toilet wasn't nearly as common before the first apps came out, and all of the first ones were 3rd party)
Being a moderator on the jailbait subreddit, a community for sharing sexually suggestive pictures of underage teenage girls
Forcing new moderation teams on communities whose moderation he didn't agree with
Straight up lying about the 3rd party apps and their developers every step of the way

Way to go, Steve Huffman! You had a community of volunteers build your platform for you and now you're taking it all away from them. I'm sure this won't backfire.

[-] andobando@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago

Being a moderator on the jailbait subreddit, a community for sharing sexually suggestive pictures of underage teenage girls

This one is a lie, he was added as a moderator by another mod, at a time when anyone could do so. Lets please stop spreading this.

[-] boonhet@lemm.ee 15 points 1 year ago

Maybe he did not moderate it actively, but it was allowed to continue and even promoted by reddit until media got a whiff of it.

[-] andobando@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

At the time, there was a lot of popular sentiment, on reddit itself, that the internet should be free and it should allowed to continue so long as it was legal.