I’ve described Reddit as figuring out how to thread the content moderation needle by being a centralized service yet moderation policies are federated out to volunteers.
The flip side is these volunteers also control the most popular destinations in the app and can tank them if the company pisses them off.
A healthy form of checks & balances in my opinion.
@carnage4life It's been working reasonably well so far, but this last move to stomp out the third party apps is going to backfire, because the experience on the official app is so poor, a big portion of the most engaged people simply didn't use it, and still don't want to.
@carnage4life Reddit needs to start a revenue share with volunteer moderators who mod communities with 1M members and above.