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[โ€“] Nobody@lemmy.world 15 points 8 months ago (1 children)

All those moderators spent all those years fighting bot spam, and now the admins are deliberately opening the floodgates for the IPO.

I wish I could say I was shocked, but this was 100% foreseeable given their behavior since the third party app fiasco.

[โ€“] sunbytes@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

Subverting the will and attention autonomy of the user is a premium feature now.