Disappointed that NPR didn’t elaborate more on how Huffman truly fucked over Christian Selig.
Says pedobear u/spez
Wasn’t he a mod of /r/jailbait?
Yeah, but that was when you could make someone else mod and they didn’t have to accept. One of the mods did that to him. Once he learned about he, he left the position and they pushed out a change shortly where you had to accept the mod position. People did it to troll others, specifically like that.
No mistake, no love lost on him, but he was a mod as a joke, and he removed himself when he was aware of it
It’s a small group that’s very upset, and there’s no way around that… Huffman said 97% of Reddit users do not use any third-party apps to browse the site. He said “the vast majority” of moderators also do not rely on third-party apps.
But also…
“But the opportunity cost of not having those users on our platform, on our advertising platform, is really significant,”
So it’s a teeny tiny group. Basically insignificant. But it’s also such a large group that we can’t possibly NOT try and monetize them 🤡.
Right? The corporate double-speak just makes Huffman look like a moron.
Huffman characterized the Reddit protesters as a small but vocal cadre of angry users who are not in touch with the greater Reddit community.
Yes! Yes!! YES!!! GASLIGHT ME HARDER, DADDY!
Ah, this is what an “adult company” means.
Yeah, only naughty people would associate it with porn. /s
Do you reckon it’s innacurate? I’m not really sure. No one seemed thrilled about the plan that spoke about it there, but then if I didn’t know or care what any of this hoo ha was about I’d likely not comment or read anything on the matter.
The community shut downs are huge, but that decision is controlled by smaller groups who are the ones particularly affected by the proposed changes to how Reddit goes about things from now on.
It’s in his interests to promote what he’s saying as true, but I don’t know if it actually is untrue. Would be nice, I’d like to see them fall flat on their face with this but what he’s saying doesn’t sound all that implausible.
This dude is such a fucking joke. All he wants is good little sheep who click on ads and buys their NFTs. Can’t wait till this crap blows up in his face.
“Reddit represents one of the largest data sets of just human beings talking about interesting things,” Huffman said. “We are not in the business of giving that away for free.”
He believes he owns our voice. I’m just beyond disgusted.
Thank you spez for solidifying my opinion that I never want to return to reddit.
That’s why I’m deleting my account and taking my thousands of posts with me. I will create a new account to lurk in a couple of subs I like until there’s enough traffic here or elsewhere. I’m almost tempted to go into some of the more active forums and start posting ChatGPT generated garbage that seems superficially meaningful or relevant to start fucking with their idea to train AIs on Reddit posts.
Not a bad idea. I would love to do that, but a lot of my posts are to promote myself as an artist so, my plan is to promote my fediverse presence with my art if I ever do post again
NBC Is in on it as well. https://apple.news/ABf0fBhOISSS9Fe9vF1fLPw
Front page of huffpost https://www.huffpost.com/
Go to featured article DOWNVOTED: REDDIT CEO DIGS IN HEELS AS OUTRAGE ENGULFS WEBSITE
God, HuffPost titles are so sensationalist and insufferable. I remember now why I blacklisted this site on my newsfeed.
I mean fuck Huffpost sure, but I find this funny
Dude is such a snake, god damn I hope he fucking loses this battle and crawls back to the hole he came from
I don’t even care what happens to spez or reddit any more. I came to the fediverse out of spite, but I stayed for the amazing community. Spez can do what he likes, this is my home now.
An “adult company” wouldn’t have their CEO go on an extemporaneous personal attack against a third party developer in the middle of a Q&A.
“it’s time to grow up and be an adult company” he says, logging on to the site that’s mostly memes, anime, and pictures of people’s genitals.
“It’s time to enshitify.”
The one admirable thing about reddit leadership is how transparent they have been about the enshittification of their product. Usually companies will do some perfunctory song and dance about how great the changes are and how much users will love them. Reddit has been pretty clear that the changes will negatively effect users and that they are doing it for the money.
Human beings talk about interesting things on Reddit. ‘We are not in the business of giving that away for free’
“But we are in the business of reselling the content that those human beings provide, without compensating them at all, or even considering any of their complaints about how we manage the site they speak on.”
Fuck this guy seven new assholes.
And, of course, there are the unpaid moderators. He doesn’t seem concerned at all that they’re “giving it away for free”. The experienced power-mods are the ones in the position to put a serious hurting on spez, and I hope they take the opportunity to do so.
They won’t. They’re drunk on imagined power and will do whatever the platform asks to keep it.
Yeah, I think the power trip of moderating some subreddit with millions of members is very seductive. Sadly, it seems very seductive to exactly the people I would not want moderating, but I’m sure ousting conscientious moderators for puppet dictators will alleviate this situation in the future of Reddit.
Right? RIGHT?!
Wow, 57MM daily visits? I wonder how many are legit and not bots, kind of like how Twitter was when Elon bought. Shows that the few hundred thousand that might have came to fediverse is not even a dent in the numbers. We’ll see what happens after June 30th.
@1019throw We will see how many of the 57MM are bots when the API disappears.
FUCK HIM.
Adults don’t lie to developers (the API will never go away! Our pricing will be reasonable! You’ll have years to make changes!), accuse indie developers of blackmail (holy shit!), and ignore millions of users and mods asking for answers (14 questions on my AMA and then I’m out!).
The gaslighting was my line in the sand. That’s not how you do business.
And he had the gall to call it “leaking a private conversation” after that. Lol
Most “grown up” companies don’t alienate a vast amount of their consumers. Greedy little dickholes have no problem fucking their userbase for a quick monetary boost. Spez is just a bitch who can see a payday, he is a shit founder who only pretends to be a CEO, fuck him and Reddit as a whole.
We weren’t their consumers. We were their product.
App creators weren’t their consumers, either.
Advertisers are their consumers.
I mean, the very notion of “grown up” companies is a lie. Reading the article on the Instant Brands bankruptcy…
“Instant Brands was purchased by private equity firm Cornell Capital in 2017. While some of its products, such as Pyrex and CorningWare are long established brands — Pyrex is 108 years old, and CorningWare is 65 — Instant Pot was only launched in 2010. The company said that at least one of its products can be found in 90% of US homes”
Yet, they’re filing for bankruptcy because some brainiac “disruptor” CEO is an idiot but other rich idiots gave him millions of dollars to turn it into a garbage fire.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/13/business/instant-brands-bankruptcy/index.html
can someone buy back the PYREX brand to ensure they only distribute boroscilate glass?
I appreciate this
As a blogger from my country worded it:
What, do you want to start to pay your employees now out of sudden? Whoa whoa whoa, calm down, dude! Now let’s not put any absurd ideas into the world here!1!!!
