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Cake day: June 10th, 2023

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  • You’re not following what I’m getting at. Reddit wants to have plausible deniability so they reach out to mod teams asking them to Judas on their fellow mods. We don’t know how many agreed to turn on you – maybe it was one, maybe it was 51%, maybe it was all of them.

    The mods go to Reddit and say “yes we’ll work with you to get the subreddit back up. But we don’t have access to demod the head mod.” Reddit says “say no more, I got u.” They demod you, and say “If you have any questions go speak to your fellow mods. WE didn’t make the decision, we were asked to demod you by your fellow mods.”

    Your fellow mods also have the extra perk that they can deny betraying you. “WE didn’t demod you, Reddit did! SEE the mod logs!”

    Plausible deniability all around.



  • It boggles my mind that I read this sentence near the end of the article:

    “Force everyone to interact on one app, and it’s easier to fill their feeds with whatever advertising you want.”

    This isn’t a quote from an expert, these are the actual words of the author of the article. “fill their needs… with advertising.”

    Nobody has “advertising needs.” It shows how fucked-up the internet has become when a journalist writes something like this unironically, without even attempting to explain themselves. They just assume everyone believes they have advertising needs. Unreal.