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Reddit Ramps Up Its Threats To Protesting Mods, As Ad Buyers Leave (www.techdirt.com)

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The landed gentry are only in charge until the king comes to town and chops off a few heads. At least that seems to be the case at Reddit, where CEO Steve Huffman pretended his complaints about current moderators — who were protesting his decision to effectively cut off API access to tons of useful…

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[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What happened to Slashdot? There wasn't really one particular event that made me stop using that site, I just sort of drifted away. Was there an "enshittification" moment there, too?

[–] eosha@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

1999, Malda & Bates sold it to Andover.net. It didn't become terrible, but there was a sense that it went corporate. It's been sold and resold since then.

[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I guess I mostly used it after the sale, then. I started in 1998 or 1999 (when the hype for The Phantom Menace was building up) and used it until the early 2010s.