HipPriest

My initial thought I’ll admit was this guy could be a crank. But actually it doesn’t matter if he is or not, he’s just clearly pointing out using the facts that Mozilla aren’t spending their money on their products but on… Well something they’re not exactly keen to tell anyone about.

If he’s faked the documents that’s different of course but that doesn’t appear to be the case

(Edit for clarity)

That is indeed interesting. I would like to know more about the people they’re giving huge amounts of money to who are political speakers. Does seem very odd

For sure - and there’s undoubtedly been subs that have had changes of mods for the worse. Which will have a long term negative effect.

Another long term effect is of course its heightened awareness to alternatives to Reddit.

I mean I don’t think any of the people protesting actually thought ‘yes, Reddit is absolutely going to back down as a result of the protests no question!’

What I think is pretty cool is that what was initially only going to be a two day black out that (from memory) 6000 subs signed up for turned into something much, much bigger. And got the CEO to say some pretty stupid things in black and white to the press to boot. It’s done much more than it set out to do.

‘Fuck Spez’ was a stupid meme though. Should have been ‘Fire Huffman’ or something that meant something outside of Reddit users.

I’m a fan of the BBC, they make a lot of terrific programmes and the breadth of the audience their radio stations cater to is pretty phenomenal.

They also have a history of experimenting with technology so it’s not a total surprise they’ve taken this step. Since most people on Mastodon are either sharing British news sources from the BBC or The Guardian anyway it will be interesting to see how they fare…