269
Reddit CEO Steve Huffman is fighting a losing battle against the site's moderators (qz.com)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/technology@beehaw.org
150 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

The company wants to charge for API access. Its volunteer moderators have other ideas

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] 2 points 3 years ago (2 children)

To reiterate what I said in the last paragraph;

Once you find an instance you like (good ping, good performance, good admin) all the content across all the instances is there, barring any defederation. Which communities are local to the instance is not normally a selection criteria.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
    •
  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    That’s not true from a technical point of view. A remote subscriber is way more expensive than a local one, so on the technical side it’s better when everyone signs up on the server where most of their communities are.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 1 child comment
    •
  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago*

    That may be true, but most of the communities I'm subscribed to are remote. I've not experienced any issue at all. In fact I'm getting your reply pretty much instantaneously and I'm on lemm.ee in the USA and you're on feddit.de in Germany.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent