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That’s a recent quote from Reddit’s VP of community, Laura Nestler. Here’s more of it: This week, Reddit has been telling protesting moderators that if they keep their communities private, the company will take action against them. Any actions could happen as soon as this afternoon.

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[–] Landmammals@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

All they had to do was allow Reddit premium users to access the site using third-party apps.

[–] GeekSquad1992@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 year ago

Yup. I was plenty happy to pay to keep using BaconReader. Give everyone a few months to set that up and I think things would've been fine. Instead, we get basically the most ham fisted way it could've gone.