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I also keep coming back to the metaphor that Reddit is a great deal like Gormenghast: an ancient, stony fortification of cobbled-together structures, housing a gaggle of idiosyncra…

I moderate tens of subreddits, some of the most prominent and significant in the Reddit ecosystem. So yes indeed, I would say I have "spent time"

If they pick moderators, those moderators are no longer volunteers, but employees & agents of Reddit, Inc. — and because of legal precedents with how moderators were engaged with A…

It really would be bad if Reddit collapsed. Facebook is a former juggernaut of manipulating midwesterners and grandparents by driving them to bigoted echo chambers and serving them…

The AI “gold rush” has already left the station, yyeeeaarrsss ago. The people who are going to monetize it are the people for whom the threshold of entry to the data sets is an ins…

Reddit has expectations of what moderators are to do, and has expectations of what they are not to do, and will remove them from roles if they fail to meet those expectations. That…

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Their willingness to exempt screen reader / accessibility capable or accessibility focused third party apps from API pricing is good faith IMO. So the NSFW changes seem to be promp…

Their fight with ad blocking is the same Cold War every other social media site has. If they’re serving ads off of distinctly named infrastructure, or even distinctly subnetted or …

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