Please explain to me where Reddit is no longer free for Joe Consumer?
It's the subreddit mods who are making the data inaccessible to you, NOT Reddit.
It's the subreddit mods who are making the data inaccessible to you, NOT Reddit.
Got it, thanks.
reddit is doing this because their investors want them to be a multi-billion dollar company, not because they already are.
Tons of them are basically just protesting since they won't be able to exert said petty power as efficiently as they used to.
I can't imagine getting to a point where I'd defend Reddit powermods, even over spez himself. But even in your very shaky analogy, the mods are at worse the petty bourgeois, not some sort of proletariat of Reddit wtf.
Yes, yes, Reddit is no where near as bad as a coal mine, that's why it's an analogy.
> I can't imagine getting to a point where I'd defend Reddit powermods, even over spez himself.
Why not? Workers vs. Capital, if you can't side with the workers, then you are siding with the moneyed interests, and I can't figure why an average person would do such a thing.
But I also think that powermods are a net negative for the website and have turned moderation on Reddit into a joke.
At the end of the day I think users are the "proles" here. And most of them just want to use Reddit for things like tech support or purchasing advice or discussing video games.
That a few mods are able to take ownership of communities that aren't theirs (the community is the users, not the mods imo) and close them down is pretty meh.
I personally would never use Reddit once RiF stops working (and I mean it, I can't even get myself to use the old Reddit interface).
But this is a weird temper tantrum imo that is typical of Reddit; a very tiny minority of third party apps users and even commercial third party app devs shutting down stuff that isn't theirs because they dont have it their way. Again, basically 90% of users just use the new Reddit app and website sadly enough.