The reddit mods are why I can't be bothered to care about the changes Spez is making. Yes, they are ridiculous, terrible changes simply designed to get Reddit more money by going after people fixing things that Reddit is too lazy to do itself.
But the reddit mods are (90+% of the time) ridiculous, terrible people who should be removed from the site en-masse and should never be given any form of power at all and have been lying about this whole thing from the start. They're not mad that the API changes may impact blind people (in fact, Spez apparently gave ground on accessibility options). They're not mad about 3rd party UI programs being impacted. They're mad because this change will impact their 3rd party mod tools that let them identify the WrongThinkers easier and blanket ban people across dozens if not hundreds of subs are jeopardized.
At least Spez's actions have a logic here, one where even if you disagree with him doing it you can understand why.
The mods are tantrumming hard enough to make toddlers jealous with an undue sense of importance and power that makes their fall almost comical and cathartic.
daily reminder that this has nothing to do with blind users or a third party mobile app being better than reddit's dogshit mobile app.
it's that reddit is now requiring payment for the API, which greatly impacts the business model of the powermods. you mock the jannies, and some of them are keyboard warrior losers, but some of them are making shitloads of money on this.
in 2016 when trump won, a political extremist group started a coordinated effort to take over reddit. the powermods control over 90% of the top 10k subs, and over 60% of the top 100k subs. they're very well funded with political activism groups like mediamatters. it's confirmed true as memos from these groups and discord chat logs leaked covering it.
these powermods use a very sophisticated censorship system to make it impossible for anything that's anti-leftist to propagate on the site. any subs which do engage in wrongspeak get false flagged and banned.
with the API changes, the powermods are claiming it's over a third party reddit mobile app, but it's because the censorship system used by the political powermods doesn't qualify under the moderation tool exemption, and suddenly it'd cost many millions every month to run.
now the powermods are throwing a tantrum, holding the site hostage from the business, with neither side wanting to admit what is actually going on. reddit doesn't want to admit that they are pwned by a small group of extremists, and the extremists don't want to expose who they are, what they're doing, how they're making millions, and how the whole thing will collapse if they are forced to pay reddit a monthly fee to control the narrative on the site.
The reddit mods are why I can't be bothered to care about the changes Spez is making. Yes, they are ridiculous, terrible changes simply designed to get Reddit more money by going after people fixing things that Reddit is too lazy to do itself.
But the reddit mods are (90+% of the time) ridiculous, terrible people who should be removed from the site en-masse and should never be given any form of power at all and have been lying about this whole thing from the start. They're not mad that the API changes may impact blind people (in fact, Spez apparently gave ground on accessibility options). They're not mad about 3rd party UI programs being impacted. They're mad because this change will impact their 3rd party mod tools that let them identify the WrongThinkers easier and blanket ban people across dozens if not hundreds of subs are jeopardized.
So, popcorn time.
At least Spez's actions have a logic here, one where even if you disagree with him doing it you can understand why.
The mods are tantrumming hard enough to make toddlers jealous with an undue sense of importance and power that makes their fall almost comical and cathartic.
daily reminder that this has nothing to do with blind users or a third party mobile app being better than reddit's dogshit mobile app.
it's that reddit is now requiring payment for the API, which greatly impacts the business model of the powermods. you mock the jannies, and some of them are keyboard warrior losers, but some of them are making shitloads of money on this.
in 2016 when trump won, a political extremist group started a coordinated effort to take over reddit. the powermods control over 90% of the top 10k subs, and over 60% of the top 100k subs. they're very well funded with political activism groups like mediamatters. it's confirmed true as memos from these groups and discord chat logs leaked covering it.
these powermods use a very sophisticated censorship system to make it impossible for anything that's anti-leftist to propagate on the site. any subs which do engage in wrongspeak get false flagged and banned.
with the API changes, the powermods are claiming it's over a third party reddit mobile app, but it's because the censorship system used by the political powermods doesn't qualify under the moderation tool exemption, and suddenly it'd cost many millions every month to run.
now the powermods are throwing a tantrum, holding the site hostage from the business, with neither side wanting to admit what is actually going on. reddit doesn't want to admit that they are pwned by a small group of extremists, and the extremists don't want to expose who they are, what they're doing, how they're making millions, and how the whole thing will collapse if they are forced to pay reddit a monthly fee to control the narrative on the site.