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Megathread for Reddit Blackouts and News - Rest of the Week(?) (beehaw.org)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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hey everyone. if you want to post links or discuss the Reddit blackout, its aftermath, and what's happening going forward, please localize it to this thread in order to keep things tidy! thanks! we'll see if we need to cycle the thread again before the end of this week, but i don't know that we'll need to

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think this is where the Fediverse can shine. If a Corp wants to join and host their own stuff, they can, and it will be really clear. Decentralization means that instead of a single broker of the information we can have a range from altruistic to straight up monetization exist side by side. But why some Corp would pay for a subreddit is crazy...I mean, what is the value prop? Companies would have to pay for the subreddit and then moderate it too?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

At least when they were paying for bots and shills there was a modicum of plausible deniability.