Seems like a risky move when Microsoft is going to court to try and get approval to buy Blizzard.
What spez wants is to be a notorious billionaire, respected for making reddit a profitable social media company. What he is, and what he probably always will be, is a shitty leader who doesn’t actually have a lot of business sense making decisions using emotion and ego and alienating a chunk of the user population.
Hard to say if he will suffer any real consequences for this, but at least in some important circles he’s lost a lot of clout.
Think of it as killing two birds with one stone: they monetize users by getting AI firms to pay for all the valuable content redditors have posted over the years, and they kill off app competitors who are giving redditors alternatives to the mobile app.
That’s really all it’s about.
Better brace yourself because it has become a part of the GOP platform going forward.
Is meth a cause or do people who become homeless eventually look to meth as an escape from their life circumstances? I suspect that it’s probably a bit of both.
I really don’t think it’s a protest on the part of Minecraft anyway; what they were really saying is that because subs were no longer enforcing rules and content moderation wasn’t happening anymore (or was being actively discouraged) and porn among other things was becoming more prevalent on the site, they didn’t feel comfortable having an official affiliation with Reddit, even if it was only with one sub.
The protest worked in a way, but I wouldn’t give Microsoft credit for actually backing the protests.