I mean, his name's Cillian.

I'm pretty sure 1990 was ten years ago.

And that, Musky, is why sites generally provide an API and don't lock it behind prohibitive pricing. Because the alternative is to scrape your site, and that's more resource intensive for the site in question.

reddit refugees

Reddifugees?

Considering how surnames originate, that would be interesting finding out just what the ancestor who first used that name did in order to be known by it.

"You're looking for Jack? There's Jack the baker, Jack the tailor, and there's Jack from down the street. He doesn't really do anything, but he's good enough."

Considering that this is the most hated person on Reddit other than spez himself, no tears were shed.

By default, everyone's a guy on the internet unless stated otherwise. Some people just know the name and that they're a powermod and not much else. Also, they're apparently trans or claims to be, so there's a subset of people who'd misgender them on purpose.

Of course they're claiming responsibility for the John Oliver thing. Considering their history, I doubt it. But even if they were involved, it's the community at large that was responsible for the John Oliverification of Reddit.

Fedditor sounds like a nice, platform-neutral term, but it might be a little too close to Reddit. I can't think of an alternative, though. But your idea of a general Fediverse term rather than a platform specific one is good.

Ah. So basically China's Social Credit system, but for Reddit.

That's their TOS. Their actions recently — namely undeleting user posts and comments — run directly counter to their TOS. They're essentially claiming ownership of the user submitted content by doing that.

So basically, according to Reddit, they own everything on Reddit. That means all the the CP, hate speech — and in this case, piracy — that are posted on Reddit are Reddit's responsibility. Bold strategy, cotton. They're basically waiving their net neutrality.