“It’s time we grow up,” says former moderator of jailbait subreddit.

  • TheAnonymouseJoker@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    3% is bullshit. About 20-30% users use third party apps. Source: r/privatelife founder, and these are 12 month usage statistics.

    However, this is also the most favourable scenario, being the largest authentic privacy subreddit not filled with Snowden/Assange dismissive mods. But it is around 20% rather than 3%.

    Spez is now making up self contradictory nonsense and even attempting to create infighting between moderators from yesterday’s statement he gave. Spez simply wants to leech off all the great content made by “guest bloggers” (a term old timers use) and all the unpaid moderation people have done. He is simply saying that the old relationship is over, and that all old users can fuck off, because new users are ready to consume an Instagram-ified official Reddit app with doomscrolling, chock filled with ads, a bloated UI and load of spying and tracking. Reddit also is astroturfed by US military teams, so that is tied into the reason why all Big Tech platforms are suddenly going hostile – to invent a new reality, devoid of any criticism against Western empire.

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      1 year ago

      What it is Spez? How can people who use third party apps simultaneously be only 3% of the user base (I realize you proved he’s wrong) and significant enough to ruin Reddit’s profitability? Cause if you’re going public and only three percent of your users can ruin Reddit’s profitability you’re in for a rough ride. Investors don’t like too much risk.

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      1 year ago

      really went off the rails there lol. I could tell when you mentioned Snowden/Assange.

      • iie@lemmy.ml
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        1 year ago

        you don’t think it’s nuts for snowden critics to mod privacy subreddits when snowden is the guy behind the main leak that showed how fucked our privacy is?