many of them are literal jannies, unpaid losers duped into being useful idiots, wasting their lives away censoring shitposts from a porn forum (reddit's leaked IPO docs admitted the site traffic is majority porn).
but many of them are more insidious than that. in 2016 after trump won, political action groups started a coalition to take over mod roles on practically all social media. enter the reddit powermods. they have mod roles on over 90% of the top 10k subs, and 60%+ of the top 100k. this was exposed in the banout2018 scandal.
the reason why any of this is a controversy at all is because the powermods use a an abusive API-based censorship tool to keep an iron grip over practically all site content. and they make millions off this every single month. all of the whining about blind people apps and the third party app being better than the dogshit official reddit app... all of that is a distraction. it's entirely about the censorship tool not qualifying for the "moderation tool" discount. reddit doesn't want to admit that extremists took over their site, and the extremists don't want to admit they're making millions. and that's why there's this stupid fucking standoff.
it's a lot more complicated than this.
many of them are literal jannies, unpaid losers duped into being useful idiots, wasting their lives away censoring shitposts from a porn forum (reddit's leaked IPO docs admitted the site traffic is majority porn).
but many of them are more insidious than that. in 2016 after trump won, political action groups started a coalition to take over mod roles on practically all social media. enter the reddit powermods. they have mod roles on over 90% of the top 10k subs, and 60%+ of the top 100k. this was exposed in the banout2018 scandal.
the reason why any of this is a controversy at all is because the powermods use a an abusive API-based censorship tool to keep an iron grip over practically all site content. and they make millions off this every single month. all of the whining about blind people apps and the third party app being better than the dogshit official reddit app... all of that is a distraction. it's entirely about the censorship tool not qualifying for the "moderation tool" discount. reddit doesn't want to admit that extremists took over their site, and the extremists don't want to admit they're making millions. and that's why there's this stupid fucking standoff.