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@padraig as someone who doesn't use Reddit ... I ... I now feel like using Reddit to see what's going on :D :D

@nantes Well, there isn't much on Reddit to view at the moment since over 7000 subreddits (communities) have gone private in protest.

The TL;DR is:
The Reddit admins are imposing fees to use their API pricing out all 3rd Party Apps. Some estimations see the developer of a 3rd party app having to pay $20mill a year to keep the app working.

Meanwhile, the official 1st party app lacks fundemental moderation tools and has major a11y issues. Things that have been promised for years.

@nantes And as it has been discovered in the last couple of days that the CEO has apparently* been found to be moderating problematic subreddits that involve children.

And this is all happening before their IPO

EDIT:
* To be clear, the apparent moderating of certain subreddits may not hold water as anyone can be added as a mod without permission and it may have been performed by a troll. Take with a grain of salt.

@padraig ouchies :o ... I'd seen the thing about Apollo and their potential costs which seemed insane hadn't heard about their IPO or their CEO :o

@nantes Yeah, not a good look for them at the moment.

Kbin/Lemmy are alternative platforms that use ActivityPub (like Mastodon) but most of the bigger instances are being overloaded with people migrating from Reddit in the same fashion that Twitter users did back in November with Mastodon.

Swings and roundabouts haha.

@thechrisd According to this post, back in the day, adding a mod was automatically accepted.

https://old.reddit.com/r/dankmemes/comments/1477psa/all_3_are_going_to_lie_to_you/jnuy0xf/

@padraig That old reddit CSS hurts my eyes so much.