StaggersAndJags

Yeah, I wish people would stop spreading this lie, especially when the truth is no better: As reddit’s admins, spez and the others explicitly oversaw, tolerated and defended r/jailbait and every subreddit like it on the site, for a period of multiple years.

They were actually told to get bent but not fired, which is even funnier. Imagine insulting and belittling a key department in your company but letting them continue to run things.

Reddit was not going to change its mind.

Honestly, I thought they might. Not to cancel the API fees entirely like some wanted, but to reach a compromise with developers that would increase Reddit’s revenue and let the apps stay in business.

But it’s become clear since then that killing the third party apps isn’t an accident or side effect, but the explicit intention of the API changes. Now I can’t see Reddit compromising as long as spez is in charge.

I still have a dim hope it could happen. The protests aren’t over and Reddit is feeling it.

I get where they’re coming from, kind of. If they’re going to make another move in the future, they need to still be moderators of the subreddit or no one will pay attention.

But they need to realize that 99.9% of people will only hear about their actions, not their reasons. And their action has been to surrender to the admins’ demands and return to normal operations. They’ve contributed to the growing narrative that the protest has failed, which puts more pressure on the remaining holdouts to fold.

A couple news stories of moderators of prominent subreddits being forcibly removed by reddit would have been a thousand times more effective than these vague promises of future actions that might never happen.