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Reddit communities with millions of followers plan to extend the blackout indefinitely (www.theverge.com)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Mods are basically the slave labour that make Reddit profitable and allows for its existence.

The exploit is taking superuser’s hobby or specialty and getting them to work 24/7 in an permanent unpaid internship position that doesn’t run counter to labour laws.

No one wants to upset that tenuous (and likely quasi-illegal) system of exploitation by empowering the mods to know that they can make changes by organising or going on strike.

Neither Reddit executives nor the protesting app developers and other API data users have the actual interests of reddit superusers at heart.