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 cur…

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…

  • Jessica@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    15·
    1 year ago

    It’s worth mentioning the article said prior to the blackout ads saw ~14,500 clicks so they’re currently down 40-50%

    • Osa-Eris-Xero512@kbin.social
      6·
      1 year ago

      It’ll be interesting to see which advertisers are the ones which think the current state of affairs provides a good ad platform for their orgs.

    • The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      That’s significant, and it doesn’t surprise me. Even if I wanted to keep using reddit, the content has taken a nose-dive and the mood sucks now, so I bet people have cut their usage down.