▲ 517 ▼ Mike Hardaker accuses Reddit of holding organic posting ‘hostage’ unless he buys ads, shares email screenshot (piunikaweb.com) submitted 8 months ago by Beep@lemmus.org to c/technology@lemmy.world 96 comments fedilink hide all child comments Mike Hardaker, who has maintained a Reddit account for 20 years, has been shadow-banned on Reddit. He has posted an update on X, stating that Reddit requires an ad spend to restore organic posting. This demand was given to him in writing.
[–] eleitl@lemmy.zip 6 points 8 months ago (2 children) What's a Reddit? permalink fedilink source hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] hector@lemmy.today 6 points 8 months ago I think it's the name for one of those weird sex moves. permalink fedilink source parent [–] one_old_coder@piefed.social 2 points 8 months ago It's a clone of Digg which was a clone of forums, and it's full of ads and bots. It's the trashcan of the internet. I don't know why people still lurk there. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] hector@lemmy.today 6 points 8 months ago I think it's the name for one of those weird sex moves. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] one_old_coder@piefed.social 2 points 8 months ago It's a clone of Digg which was a clone of forums, and it's full of ads and bots. It's the trashcan of the internet. I don't know why people still lurk there. permalink fedilink source parent