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Damn right. The admins I've worked with over at Reddit understand this, but spez seems to think he can get out of this without causing an entire mass exodus... and just let his communities bleed off and die. The community team at reddit understands how important both the users and the mods are, why doesn't spez?
My theory is he's heard Musk brag about how he's made Twitter profitable, and only lost bots and scammers - the users and advertisers all came crawling back (without releasing numbers)
No way that's true, but every owner of social media seems to have paid attention. They want to believe it - there's growing pressure to turn a profit now, so when someone tells you "the users might get mad, but they'll come crawling back if you stand firm" they pay attention
It's pretty easy to convince someone of something so convenient
Hasn't Musk also laid off like 70-80% of Twitter staff?
Forget power users and mods. Shouldn't Reddit worry about their admins jumping ship before it goes down? If Steve is copying Musk's playbook, there's no way he would skip that "crucial" step, so they might as well get out now.