Welcome to the Tech Mem Right Home for Friday, July 21st, 2023. I'm Brian McCullough today.

Reddit is choosing violence with their biggest subreddit holdouts. More data on the ebbing of Threads usage. AI seems to be

bringing Sergei Bryn back into the office. Why you should be getting your paycheck

quicker soon and a special Oppenheimer themed edition of the weekend long read

suggestions here's what you miss today in the world of tech.

This is the part of the movie where there has been some sort of lengthy standoff situation

and finally the police just decided you know we're not blinking we're going in

Reddit has removed the moderators from our slash male fashion advice one of the biggest

Sub-Edits to close protesting those Reddit API changes.

They've taken charge of the subreddit themselves.

They've stormed the building, quoting the verge.

The subreddit is now open, meaning

Reddit users can browse content in the community once again,

though in a restricted mode meeting only certain users can make new posts.

As we reported last week, the moderators of our slash male fashion advice, a

subreddit with more than 5 million subscribers, had taken the community private

and were pushing its users toward discord and substack instead.

At the time, the moderators expected to be removed after receiving a message from a

Reddit admin, mod code of conduct telling them they would be replaced if they didn't reopen.

Three former moderators of R slash male fashion vice tell the

verge that they were removed from the subreddit on Thursday.

Quote, we more or less have been expecting the removal for the past few days.

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