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minus-squareNobody@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·9 months agoAll those moderators spent all those years fighting bot spam, and now the admins are deliberately opening the floodgates for the IPO. I wish I could say I was shocked, but this was 100% foreseeable given their behavior since the third party app fiasco.
minus-squaresunbytes@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·9 months agoSubverting the will and attention autonomy of the user is a premium feature now.
All those moderators spent all those years fighting bot spam, and now the admins are deliberately opening the floodgates for the IPO.
I wish I could say I was shocked, but this was 100% foreseeable given their behavior since the third party app fiasco.
Subverting the will and attention autonomy of the user is a premium feature now.