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Steve Huffman said in an interview that Elon Musk's cost-cutting at Twitter was inspiring and that the two have chatted "a handful of times."

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[–] DarkGamer@kbin.social 78 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

Inspiring? Elon Musk's cost cutting strategy was he just decided not to pay people, not to pay his landlord, not to pay his janitors, not to pay his hosting companies, not to pay many Twitter employees, and not to bother following laws, because, presumably, "fuck you, I'm a billionaire." If that's inspiring to spez, I'm feeling really good about leaving his platform. Aaron Swartz must be spinning in his grave so fast we could generate power from it.

[–] Steeve@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 year ago

I find it quite admirable really, I might just stop paying my bills entirely too and see what happens!

[–] deaconblue@kbin.social 14 points 1 year ago

So now we know who Huffman wants to be when he grows up. Muskrat. And that wraps up the show for today folks. Time to pull the plug on Reddit.

[–] samadeleine@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

@DarkGamer Sounds like Trump too.

@Skyler

[–] Aurondarklord@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

I mean, I'm quite inspired to live without paying people for their services. I wonder if it will work for someone not yet a billionaire, though it'd make it easier to become one

[–] bill_1992@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What really irks me is that Elon Musk is essentially getting away with it too...

[–] DarkGamer@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

Musk is probably never going to have meaningful personal financial consequences for his behaviors, but it does seem like he's destroyed his credibility with all but the alt-reich in record time.

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[–] snarfback@kbin.social 45 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Holy Shit - talk about being out of sync with your userbase and community...

THAT statement might kill the heart of reddit as much as anything else.

Next up: CEO of MSNBC wants to turn the unhoused populations of major cities into dog food and has a lot of respect for Ruppert Murdock's journalistic integrity.

[–] djtwatter@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Also this dumbass isn't Elon. Say what you want about the guy but I think he'll figure Twitter out. u/spez/ does not have that same ability.

[–] BlackCoffee@kbin.social 29 points 1 year ago

They are both morally bankrupt and dumb as a rock.

undefined> Say what you want about the guy but I think he’ll figure Twitter out.

You know you're talking about the guy who literally asked people to print out all the code in twitter's codebase, right?

[–] lixus98@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What do you mean? Reddit's already dead

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[–] oakke1@kbin.social 43 points 1 year ago

You can't make this up.

[–] DrChickenbeer@kbin.social 24 points 1 year ago

Welp, that about does it for Reddit for me.

[–] pasci_lei@kbin.social 23 points 1 year ago

Of course, he does. That explains literally everything.

[–] FLOSSeveryday@kbin.social 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Imagine looking at an active dumpster fire and going "that's what I want for my home!"

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[–] xc2215x@kbin.social 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This guy continues to get worse and worse.

[–] aegisgfx877@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

Hes just now showing us who he has always been. My guess is he shed all his PR people who were keeping him from looking like the right wing ahole he really is

[–] jrick@kbin.social 15 points 1 year ago

elon only gets to do all of his crazy antics because he took the company private. but reddit is attempting to IPO? huh?

[–] lixus98@kbin.social 15 points 1 year ago

Of course, why would I expect more of these two assholes

[–] Anarch157a@kbin.social 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

What baffles me is, how can someone who leads a media company be so out of touch with reality and current events ?

Fellon Muskolini is defaulting on rent, created a literal toxic environment by cutting janitorial and cleaning services, stifled Google Cloud and AWS - two services he needs to keep the site working, destroyed the value of the company, made fun of a disabled Icelandic national hero, and this is just skimming the surface. Now /u/Spez come in public to say he admires all that incompetence ?

There's being oblivious and then there's.... whatever alternate-world insanity that goes inside his peanut brain.

I was pretty fed up with Reddit and the many site issues and instabilities they were having in the last couple years, not to mention the level of discussions that had deteriorated significantly in the same time-frame. I had already stopped visiting, even deleted bookmarks to Reddit, all in favour of hanging out on Mastodon.

I'm glad I did, because Mastodon opened my eyes to the sheer beauty of the Fediverse. Heck, I've been mucking around the Internet since nineteen-ninety-seven, and this federated stuff really brings back a little bit of that magic network of yore, full of weirdness and exploration, with actual discourse. The only thing missing are the "under construction" GIFs.

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[–] GuyDudeman@beehaw.org 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ok, hear me out - what if both Spez and Elon are secretly fans of the fediverse, and are taking over the major social media sites and ruining them so that more people start using the fediverse?? What if that's been the plan all along???

[–] noodlejetski@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I did have that thought pop up for a few seconds every now and then during the huge Twitter migration, but Space Karen is nowhere near smart enough to plan something like that.

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[–] Tyson712@kbin.social 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That was really fast... Two weeks and the guy goes from quiet CEO to fuckboy destroying his own platform

[–] flybynightpotato@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Like Elon, his big mistake was thinking he was smarter than he is and deciding to open his mouth thereby alerting the public to the fact that he's very much not smart.

[–] NoIWontPickaName@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

It is better to stay silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and confirm it

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[–] plantstho@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago

Thought this seemingly-intentional bid to wreck the platform had a familiar smell

[–] glennglog22@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago

Jesus fuck. At this point, I think Spez is actively trying (and succeeding) to alienate the community.

[–] MonsieurHedge@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I wonder if Huffman is also a far right extremist? Would make sense with his """democratic""" desire to strikebreak and his refusal to remove subreddits that spout hate speech.

[–] digitalrefugee@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

It doesn't matter how far right you are:

You are right wing.

[–] DaGuys470@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago

So that's where he got all those terrible business decisions from. Maybe he can sell flame throwers to bring in the lost money.

[–] Skyler@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Because of course he did. It's like he's choosing to do the worst possible thing at every single step.

[–] DarkDecay@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Cucks of feather stick together

[–] Burp@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

It all makes sense now. Idk how you can look at the state of twitter and think it’s a model to aspire too. Weird.

[–] Cyder@lemmy.one 7 points 1 year ago

Looks like someone is trying to brownnose his way to an acquisition/merger.

[–] joneskind@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Imagine looking at that dude in a constant rant against anything "leftist" or LGBTQI, firing everyone, not paying his bills, failing in every way possible to make money, becoming the laughing stock of the whole fucking internet, and say "Yeah this is who I wanna be"

What a joke.

[–] Santcuff@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

That checks. He wants to be lil Elon Jr

[–] lixus98@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

Subreddits as a business... Can you see what Twitter is doing wrong? Well expect Reddit to do exactly the same thing.
Oh you want a platform for discussion? Too bad... Here, download our tiktok-wannabe ad-riddle app.

[–] hydro033@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

So how about he cuts reddits 2000 employees down to something reasonable so they don't have so much on their payroll then? Like how the hell do they need 2000 employees when volunteers do everything. They were literally at 600 just two years ago.

[–] djtwatter@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

Gotta sell ads

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[–] roving6478@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

One completely out of touch ideologue praising another isn't surprising but it is shocking how such incompetent people can land positions like this.

It's not too late for Reddit to claw some of it's reputation back, but this guy needs to step down for it to happen.

[–] Catch42@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

He likes what Elon has done to twitter? Reddit's screwed. He thinks Elon made good financial decisions with twitter? Huffman's screwed too. Elon is so rich that we might never know how much financial damage he's done to twitter. Huffman doesn't have that safety net.

[–] Xariphon@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Anybody who agrees with Elon Musk on anything in this day and age should not be allowed to be in charge of anybody or anything.

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[–] scabrous-leper@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

@Skyler ...That headline tells you all you need to know about that slimeball. Anyone who has any association with Karen Musk deserves to be pilloried...

[–] Veedems@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

For years, Twitter held an outsized position in the social conversation and Elon has managed to ruin that. It was the single biggest strength, IMO. No one spoke about someone’s Facebook posts or Reddit posts; society spoke about people’s Tweets. The idiot ruined that and somehow this dope wants to emulate him?

[–] abff08f4813c@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Oh [censored], this just explains so [censored] much!

[–] mrks@mastodon.social 3 points 1 year ago

This cannot be real. He finds it inspiring?!

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