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In the interview, Huffman also praised the cost-cutting by Twitter owner Elon Musk, calling the reduced headcount there an example of how a social media site can be profitable without the massive revenue of a company like Google.
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Jesus christ, Huffman really laying into the tranny jannies by praising a move by Elon Musk. He's gotta be doing this deliberately.
 
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AnOminous said:
Like crypto-communist or any other crypto- noun, it's someone who is a fascist (or whatever) but pretends not to be. But in the reddit to English translation, it is someone who isn't a fascist at all but the predditor wants to call them that anyway.

For instance, Gore Vidal once famously called William F. Buckley, Jr. a crypto-Nazi in a television debate that got Buckley riled enough to make threats of violence.

Buckley's hilarious response:
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Vidal trolled him good on that one. Buckley was a closeted homo so his mid-atlantic accented prissy retort was kino.
 
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Pinball 2000 said:
I just want to give a shoutout to some of the brave subreddits that are still participating in the fight against high API costs:
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If you wanna check yourself, the blackout tracker is still up and live. Hit the "hide public subreddits" filter to only show private or restricted subs.
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It doesn't matter. Whatever subreddit participated in the protest will forever have the mark of the beast shame and are the biggest niggercattle on the site.
 
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"The lowly and greedy fiat currency is to blame for Crypto's woes. While proud Cryptoans struggle, the big-nosed fiat merchants work in the shadows in world currency cabals, holding us down. HEIL ETHER!"

Also, have these idiots checked the crypto markets lately? They ain't makin enough money to take back the Rhineland.
 
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Well let's see what's goin' on in the Lemmyverse

Spez is now being outwardly hostile toward the community. His plan isn’t working and he is afraid. From a strategy perspective, he should negotiate and for moderators, they should continue until he negotiates.
This doubling down by the moderators will work. The doubling down from Spez will only damage Reddit further.
When they IPO (assuming it is more than 50% equity) we could probably buy enough shares to force him and the board to resign.
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Y-yeah...
 
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I swear it was only years ago that Reddit was a byword for toxic alt-Right Internet culture and yet these people are warning each other that they can't function without moderators.

Rate me dumb, but I don't really understand the big deal. So you can't use third-party apps and the official one is rubbish, is that it? Can't people just visit the site with the web browser? From what I've seen none of the conversation has produced alternate solutions for Reddit to make money.
 
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Vect said:
I swear it was only years ago that Reddit was a byword for toxic alt-Right Internet culture and yet these people are warning each other that they can't function without moderators.

Rate me dumb, but I don't really understand the big deal. So you can't use third-party apps and the official one is rubbish, is that it? Can't people just visit the site with the web browser? From what I've seen none of the conversation has produced alternate solutions for Reddit to make money.
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The kind of people who still use Reddit are too retarded to know what a web browser is. If it's not in the app store, it doesn't exist.
 
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Lord of the Large Pants said:
The kind of people who still use Reddit are too retarded to know what a web browser is. If it's not in the app store, it doesn't exist.
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I've heard rumors that some users are not getting the mobile website any more and being forced to use the app.

Personally I still use old reddit on everything.

Hmm, guess it was an experiment. But you can bet they're going that way.


 
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Nguyen Van Phuoc said:
Good idea! You can use all the money made jannying day in day out to buy out Reddit!






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I'm pretty sure even if every tranny janny sold their entire Funko Pop and Bad Dragon dildo collections, and even skipped their cock chop surgeries and HRT, it wouldn't be enough to buy 1% of plebbit.
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Another Rossmann video.
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Clickbait headline: REDDIT GOES EVIL: 10 REASONS WHY THAT'S A GOOD THING (#8 WILL MAKE YOU SHIT YOUR PANTS)

Also this fuckin dude creeps me out.
 
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Vect said:
I swear it was only years ago that Reddit was a byword for toxic alt-Right Internet culture and yet these people are warning each other that they can't function without moderators.

Rate me dumb, but I don't really understand the big deal. So you can't use third-party apps and the official one is rubbish, is that it? Can't people just visit the site with the web browser? From what I've seen none of the conversation has produced alternate solutions for Reddit to make money.
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Reddit could easily be profitable if it wanted to be, they are just stuck in the VC mindset of "hire more people and figure out how to turn that into growth, so we can raise more money based on line going up".

This is all fairly speculative, but people think the plan is basically:
1. Effectively ban all third-party clients, forcing people onto the (shitty) reddit app
2. Add even more dark patterns to mobile web browsers, making the experience miserable and forcing people onto the app
3. Kill old.reddit.com
4. Use the short-term bump in app users, ad views, etc. to bolster the reddit IPO planned for late 2023. Cash out at an excessive valuation and leave the public holding the bag.
 
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Genuine reddit moment, or too good to be true?
 
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Obviously, I like bitchy little drama (or if you want to call it "milk", call it that). Therefore I'm now getting even more invested in this reddit slapfight minutiae.
Anyway, /r/minecraft has just reopened. Apparently 17k people voted in their initial poll (out of 7.3 mil subscribers) to close indefinitely. But it turns out that doesn't count! "87% of commenters on both sides had not made any comments before the protest started".
It kind of sounds like nobody in /r/minecraft really cares, but "the admins have pledged to allow the community to make their own decisions and they will respect it, even if that ends up being to continue the protest".
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Hello again /r/Minecraft-ers!
We wanted to update you in regards to the site-wide protests that have been going on around the API changes.
Recently we made a poll asking you, the community, what the involvement of the sub should be.
612K of you saw the post, and 17K voted in the poll, with its results telling us that we should participate and make the sub private, and that’s what we have done until now.
It has come to our attention that some of the poll results were not made by actual members of the subs, both by the admins themselves in our recent call and by our independent analysis of account ages (where we found 87% of commenters on both sides had not made any comments before the protest started, with 2 other high-karma posts having a 50/50 and 75/25 split respectively) all enough to cast doubt in the authenticity of the poll itself.

Given that, along with our recent discussions with Reddit, we wanted to open up the sub and do a poll again. This time the admins will be helping us and will provide us with a breakdown of votes by account age and sub activity.
We know that it might seem a bit off for some members of our community to rely on admins doing the filtering on the vote results, but we want to remind everyone that Reddit is not just /u/spez, and there are admins willing to negotiate, compromise and be responsive to genuine concerns, and that’s who we are trying to discuss things with. The admins came to us in good faith, so we’re trying to return that and ask for community feedback on their terms. We want to act on the will of our community, and not the will of any kind of astroturfing campaign by either side.
If the results of the poll show the community wants us to participate and protest the changes, admins have promised us to respect that will and work on our demands.
If the results of the poll show otherwise, we also promise to keep the sub open, even if thats not what certain members of the moderation team would like.


We will try to give both sides of the problem in an unbiased way, including some data that the admins have provided to us, and let you as the /r/Minecraft community decide what should happen with the sub.

Beginning July 1st, Reddit will be setting API prices to 0.24 USD per 1000 requests. Most third party Reddit apps and moderation bots rely on this API, and following these price changes, the operators of said applications won’t be able to afford it (see this post by the creator of the Apollo app for more information, including the estimated 20 million USD bill that they would need to pay).
Since the announcement, Reddit has said that moderation bots and tools (including our own /u/MinecraftModBot) will continue to work as long as they are non-commercial. They also told us that they are negotiating with 3rd party apps (specially those that are more accessible than the official app) so that they can continue working as non-commercial apps.
Unfortunately some apps like Apollo and have already announced that they are closing down, and there has been some accusations thrown by the admins towards the developer which rubs some of us the wrong way, but to try to keep this unbiased we are not going to write our thoughts on the matter and let you make your own opinions.
One thing to take into account is that, according to the Reddit admins, only 6% of the total users of /r/Minecraft use 3rd party apps, and from the group of most engaged that is further reduced to 1%. We have no way to verify those numbers as that section of the analytics was removed, so please take them with a grain of salt.

With all of that said, please do your own research, investigate what both the admins and other users are saying, form your own opinion, and vote in this poll. The comment section is likely to contain posts from both sides with more information, so feel free to read them on top of your own searches.

We will keep the poll open for 1 day after which we will ask the admins to give us a breakdown based on user activity in the sub, to filter accounts created just for voting in these kinds of polls, and act according to the results. To reiterate, the admins have pledged to allow the community to make their own decisions and they will respect it, even if that ends up being to continue the protest, but they want to make sure that the poll itself it’s not manipulated by either group or the moderators themselves.

When we have the poll results and they have been reviewed by the admins, we will make an announcement here (including a breakdown of the poll data with the aim of being fully transparent) if the result is to make the subreddit public, or a pastebin if the result is to make the subreddit private.

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I'm kinda interested to see what Mojang things about this. Do they want to drive traffic to the official Minecraft forums, or do they want the traffic from having a large subreddit? Obviously if this "stayed closed" someone would make a new subreddit for le blocky craft game, but does Mojang want the lower rent version of what they have?
The mods are in the comments insisting the admins have told them "you can stay private if that's what the community wants". I suspect this is a bit of a Cheshire Cat situation, as I doubt they'll have a significant percentage of their subscribers voting for anything. Going by the comments, the young children who populate the sub seem enthusiastic about it going read only so they can still look up tech support.
 
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