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“Reddit cannot survive without its moderators. It cannot.” - The Verge (www.theverge.com)
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That’s a recent quote from Reddit’s VP of community, Laura Nestler. Here’s more of it: This week, Reddit has been telling protesting moderators that if they keep their communities private, the company will take action against them. Any actions could happen as soon as this afternoon.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It's like they forgot what happened to Digg. They have forgotten the face of their father.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I wasn't on digg back in the day. What happened to it?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Digg went to shit in a similar way Reddit is doing right now, and most of its users moved over to Reddit, which essentially killed it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Digg went through a series of redesigns in a short period of time and the final straw was a redesign was one that removed users abilities to manage their feeds so that they could force ads into the feed. A few years later when they sold they said that overnight they lost a quarter of their users from that change. And those users were the initial userbase of Reddit, which was essentially the answer to Digg's attempt to monetize users through forced ads.

Now, Reddit is "not even noticing a change in traffic" so much that they felt the need to make a public statement about it. Reddit is killing users abilities to customize their feed so that users are forced to use a feed which includes ads. It's literally the same thing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

oh wow, yeah, there is definitely a parallel there.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Dark tower reference, nice

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They're just looking for that sweet IPO cash grab.

Unfortunately for Spez and the rest of Reddit, they're too late to actually cash in on their 18 year-old startup.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Makes me wonder if that's what Digg was doing...