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Mods react as Reddit kicks some of them out again: “This will break the site” (arstechnica.com)
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[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 40 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The motive is these mods hold a decent amount of power on the platform that they wish to reduce. They don’t want a repeat of the API protests.

[–] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Now /u/spez will have all the power

[–] jballs@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 days ago

Yeah that is exactly it. They didn't want mods to be able to disrupt the site again, so they're looking to make that more difficult.

God, I am so glad I left that place.