Reddit CEO Says Mods Too Powerful, Plans to Weaken After Blackout

Re:Reddit CEO Says Mods Too Powerful, Plans to Weaken After ... by deeviant on Friday June 16, 2023 @11:57AM (#36358816)

In a couple weeks, the main way many people use Reddit is going to literally be blocked forever. The alternatives are not palatable to many, so the users are basically being unilaterally banished from Reddit. And that's just the opening salvo to monetize reddit.

Give it another year, and your little sub will have 3 ad posts per "actual" post and modded by the Tempe Chamber of Commerce.

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Re:Reddit CEO Says Mods Too Powerful, Plans to Weaken After ... by PrimeMcFly on Friday June 16, 2023 @12:27PM (#36359353)

> In a couple weeks, the main way many people use Reddit is going to literally be blocked forever.

This is false. Stats showed 3rd party app users were an extreme minority of users.

It's more like mods are a disproportionate number of 3rd party users due to wanting to mod from their phones, and are making the blackout decision for everybody.

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Re:Reddit CEO Says Mods Too Powerful, Plans to Weaken After ... by deeviant on Saturday June 17, 2023 @12:12AM (#36367198)

> This is false. Stats showed 3rd party app users were an extreme minority of users.

We don't seem to agree on the definition of "many".

Apollo had 1.5 million users. RIF about the same. That's just two of the biggest 3rd party shutting down basically overnight.

That's 3+ million users. I'm fairly certain that 3+ million people counts as "many".

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Re:Reddit CEO Says Mods Too Powerful, Plans to Weaken After ... by dingaling on Saturday June 17, 2023 @03:01AM (#36367989)

That's about 5% of Reddit's DAU

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Re:Reddit CEO Says Mods Too Powerful, Plans to Weaken After ... by PrimeMcFly on Saturday June 17, 2023 @07:11AM (#36369123)

Percentage wise, it's less than 10%.

So sure, it's many, it's also a very insignificant number.

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