In interviews with multiple publications, Reddit CEO Steve Huffman defended business decisions made by the company.
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In response to Huffman’s comments, moderators are trying to find ways to make blackouts effective. Alternatively, some communities are also setting up servers on alternative sites like Lemmy and Kbin.
They didn’t really give good context to the situation. They really should be talking about how these changes are going to be affecting reddit’s sources of information. That the fee’s they want to charge are ridiculously high for any developer (essentially pricing out any but the rich). How all content is user generated, maintained and controlled and yet reddit feels they are the owners of it. If they want to make these changes then they need to be taking a serious look at the solutions the community are coming up with.
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They didn’t really give good context to the situation. They really should be talking about how these changes are going to be affecting reddit’s sources of information. That the fee’s they want to charge are ridiculously high for any developer (essentially pricing out any but the rich). How all content is user generated, maintained and controlled and yet reddit feels they are the owners of it. If they want to make these changes then they need to be taking a serious look at the solutions the community are coming up with.