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…

  • g0zer
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    12 years ago

    I feel like old af now that I’ve watched two huge sites implode due to mismanagement. I was a Digg refuge way back, and now here I am on lemmy…

    • @adinfinitum@lemmy.world
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      02 years ago

      3 sites if you include Twitter . Twitter and Reddit seem to be in a mismanagement competition right now. Not sure who’s winning

      • @Wailzy@lemmy.world
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        02 years ago

        Tumblr also kind of got ruined a few years ago too for some people if you were into that platform.

        • @tinysalamander@lemmy.world
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          02 years ago

          I was in art school when Tumblr was at its peak. Looking back it was dumb, just resharing pictures and gifs but I had so much fun. I met so many people through Tumblr that I’m still in contact with.

          • @Wailzy@lemmy.world
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            12 years ago

            I really enjoyed tumblr in a way I don’t really understand now. I think I enjoyed creating something to share of my own out of bits and pieces of everyone else. Idk.