Reddit revolted this week. The company abruptly fired Victoria, the beloved employee who ran the AMA machinery, and within hours volunteer moderators took hundreds of the biggest subreddits private in protest. The front page of the internet, switched off by its own unpaid workforce. That’s the part that fascinates me: Reddit’s actual product is built and moderated by volunteers, and the company apparently forgot that volunteers can strike. Your community is infrastructure. Treat it like a free CDN and one day the CDN has opinions.
Tomorrow the US Women’s National Team plays Japan in the World Cup final, a rematch of the heartbreaker from 2011. The group chat is unanimous for the US, which as any sports fan knows is a terrifying omen.
Quiet infra note for the nerd record: Kubernetes, Google’s open-source container orchestrator, hits 1.0 this month. The ops channel is split between “Borg for the masses” and “we do not have Google’s problems.” Bookmarking this one; it smells important.
TIL: bus factor applies to communities, not just code. One person held the AMA institutional knowledge. One. For the front page of the internet.