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Reddit CEO warns employees not to wear Reddit swag in public as users revolt (www.businessinsider.com)

submitted 1 year ago by Chainweasel@lemmy.world to c/news@beehaw.org

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[–] LimitedBrain@beehaw.org 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Okay let's not kid ourselves. I know reddit is quiet right now but the entire website is angry at them. Their inbox is likely full of death threats. People are searching for their employee information.

I get that it's fun to hate on spez and all but people have hunted employees down for less before. So yeah, while this is a justified protest and I dislike spez, we should all want to keep reddit employees safe right now. Most of them aren't the problem.

[–] boobas@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago

It's hard to wrap my head around the idea of sending death threats, people walking around with so much hate filled up that they lash out at the most detrimental things.

It's a corporate decision, protests (subreddits going dark) and constructive critiscm from the userbase is the only way to make the voice heard.

I'm happy that another platform (Lemmy) existed which is more suitable and designed like the old.reddit.com layout to migrate to. Otherwise this ordeal would really suck.