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Reddit isn't profitable, despite having more than 50 million daily active users. In preparation for an IPO, CEO Steve Huffman put the platform's API

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Is that 2,000 paid employees or does that include moderators?

[–] [email protected] 72 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Of course it doesn't include moderators. Moderators are users.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

Also, there are way more than 2000, especially once you call all the very tiny subs that technically have moderators. But even if not, Reddit's biggest treasure are all the niche subs.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Reddit would implode instantly with only 2K moderators. According to this Reddit post, six years ago there were almost 75K moderators working in subreddits with more than 500 subscribers (i.e. this number only includes moderators who actually have to do some work because their subs are decently active). That number is certain to have grown since then.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

“Reddit would implode instantly”

Don’t threaten me with a good time.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

glad i disembarked that submarine

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

The "anti evil operations" team is technically paid moderators, but have no idea how big they are.