Thousands of subreddits chose to go dark in an ongoing protest over the company's plan to start charging certain third-party developers to access the site’s data.
Wow. Front page of huffpost.com right now. Interesting…
The part of the memo where Steve talks about wearing Reddit swag out on town really hit. Like, we love Reddit, but hate you, not your employees. Why would users want to harm Reddit employees?
I mean, it’s not unfathomable, but it wasn’t imperative to mention it as it only serves to stoke fear among his employees and tries to frame this as an “us against them” thing.
The part of the memo where Steve talks about wearing Reddit swag out on town really hit. Like, we love Reddit, but hate you, not your employees. Why would users want to harm Reddit employees?
I mean, it’s not unfathomable, but it wasn’t imperative to mention it as it only serves to stoke fear among his employees and tries to frame this as an “us against them” thing.
Realistically, because some people are dumb. It’s the same reason people harass actors for playing characters they don’t like.