The landed gentry are only in charge until the king comes to town and chops off a few heads. At least that seems to be the case at Reddit, where CEO Steve Huffman pretended his complaints about current moderators — who were protesting his decision to effectively cut off API access to tons of useful…
At this point it’s all about statistics & data, how much can they generate given x, etc. All the community shit is not even secondary consideration, it’s a commodity platform.