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Reddit CEO tells employees that subreddit blackout “will pass” (www.theverge.com)

submitted 1 year ago by EthicalAI@beehaw.org to c/news@beehaw.org

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Dude this article gives me work PTSD. I hate working for CEOs and stupid fucking managers. Open source forever.

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[-] Djokkum@rammy.site 40 points 1 year ago

“There’s a lot of noise with this one. Among the noisiest we’ve seen. Please know that our teams are on it, and like all blowups on Reddit, this one will pass as well,” the memo reads. “We absolutely must ship what we said we would. The only long term solution is improving our product, and in the short term we have a few upcoming critical mod tool launches we need to nail.”

In other words, the blackout is not being taken that seriously. The culling of 3rd party apps is still happening. I hope more subreddits decide to go dark indefinitely, and that Redditors keep migrating to Lemmy.

[-] sping 16 points 1 year ago

... providing Lemmy can survive the onslaught of bots, TLAs, chudiots and other wreckers who will come if/when it gets mainstream popular.

[-] Djokkum@rammy.site 10 points 1 year ago

Fair enough. I'm just going to enjoy while it lasts (hopefully forever)

[-] PascalPistachios@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

I'm going to stay on beehaw where at least they require an application to join. We need smaller and more spread out communities anyway to avoid astroturfing.

[-] xx3r@lemmy.studio 0 points 1 year ago

Good thing it's federated

[-] msprout@beehaw.org 14 points 1 year ago

Dude called it noise, lol. Feudalist vibes.

[-] marco@beehaw.org 9 points 1 year ago

The culling of 3rd party apps was the goal from the beginning of this saga.

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