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Reddit Ramps Up Its Threats To Protesting Mods, As Ad Buyers Leave (www.techdirt.com)

submitted 1 year ago by L4s@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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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…

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[-] rookie@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

nitter.net is a good mirror, I have an extension called LibRedirect that sends me there automatically instead of twitter. no need to login just to read a single tweet or something that way 🙂

[-] nul9o9@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

How does nitter work? Does it scrap the data, or use an API?

[-] BeliefPropagator@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago

Nitter no longer works because sign in is required now.

[-] rookie@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

hm, do edits not propagate through federated instances? I edited that comment an hour or two after posting when I realized, but I've had several replies today that seem to be based on the original version, all from users on different instances.

~~nitter.net is a good mirror, I have an extension called LibRedirect that sends me there automatically instead of twitter. no need to login just to read a single tweet or something that way 🙂~~

edit: sorry for the misinformation, I'd just woken up at the time and definitely misread - I didn't realize twitter had made the change today from needing an account to click around to needing one to view anything at all. Nitter doesn't seem to work anymore 🙁

[-] Gormadt 1 points 1 year ago

Edits, comments, etc can take a bit to shuffle through

No worries though, thank you for the clarification

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