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The Verge posted the actual memo that was released, you can find that below and the article here
To me, this looks like it was absolutely destined for a public release/intended leak. The victimisation says it all with them crying that their employees are going to get attacked. This is a simply absurd statement.
Any indicated statement from a CEO of a community forum that insinuates that their users, who are currently undergoing a completely peaceful protest, are in fact, volatile enough to attack employees simply doing their job has completely lost the plot. Their position as CEO is completely untenable.
Thanks Reddit for throwing extra wood on the fire. I was getting concerned that it wasn't raging enough.
Think I may just leave the subs I moderate down for longer, then.
Might as well leave them down indefinitely. I'm gonna block reddit at the DNS level, I'm done.
I blocked them at the DNS level too. Helps break the habit and avoids me accidently clicking on a reddit link.
This comment may also help.
Thanks for posting! This is wild. Internals are probably a disaster, to say the least.
I hate this part so much. Corporate overlords be gone!
He’s saying “we don’t need to listen to the community, they’ll get over it”. Again, completely tone deaf.
This is just blatant "fuck your concerns it will blow over anyway".
That's what it's all about.
Yeah. This is literally a warning. Not that many users have actually stopped using reddit, it's such a force of habit.
But once their favorite apps, that all their muscle memory has become trained to use, stops working?
They'll be gone.
Oh boy, I hope this statement pisses off a lot of people and motivates them to extend the blackout. My only criticism of the blackout was that there was an end date, Reddit only has to wait it out temporarily in that case, but idk this statement is kinda ridiculous. I hope people take it as the spit in the face it is, who tf is getting violent over subreddits going private? no one, extend the blackout!
Imagine wearing Reddit merch in public space 💀
Does the man not realize the absolute exodus the users are trying to warn him about? Blow over? Reddit will die overnight once people can't use their favorite third party apps anymore, or browse their porn subs.
I know the 80/20 rule, and that a big chunk of that 20 uses apps, but I’m not convinced. I thought the same thing about twitter when they killed off third party apps, and I ended up being the only one in my circle who moved to mastodon.
Twitter's first party app was never as hated as reddit's, was it?
On twitter you follow people, on reddit, you follow subjects. The latter you can move to another platform, even with just partial user migration. The former, not so much.
When you are held by your connection to other users, you're a lot more stuck to a platform. Reddit doesn't have that nearly to the same extent. I feel that's one of the critical mistakes the guy at the top is making.
Uh yeah, if you have to tell your staff not to wear their otherwise innocuously branded clothing for fear of getting the shit kicked out of them ... you might just be the problem here.