At this point I think he's immolating himself on purpose, and after the api changes are done a new saviour CEO will come, who won't reverse anything, but with a clean record.

[–] Paleheart@pawb.social 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I dont think his plan is even that deep. They have an ipo coming up and spez is set to make yacht money. he doesnt care if he burns the site to the ground cause he still walks out with a giant paycheck

[–] damipereira@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago (5 children)

They do stuff like that sometimes, like twitter is doing now, by putting a woman CEO right after Elon set everything on fire, so that twitter vocal minority can blame her and say that Elon was doing everything better. It's what they call the Glass Cliff. Something similar might be happening here, without the anti-feminist part.

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[–] unphazed@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"Without Reddit’s volunteer moderators, the site could likely see less helpful content, and more spam, misinformation and hate.”

Enjoy the multiple requests for user data and histories regarding what I am sure will be an 80% spread of r/TheDonald. Like the various inquisitions of Twitter, so too will your lives be mired in government investigations. Have fun moderating 100k subs with no mods, and enjoy paddling up shit creek with your dumpster fire yacht.

[–] fing3r@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In the Verge interview, huffman said the api usage costs reddit $10 mio a year. So charging Christian alone double that seems just…greedy.

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[–] AnalogyAddict@kbin.social 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

His fat mouth got me to download a Chrome extension for the sole purpose of excluding Reddit from my search results. Even Pinterest didn't get me that far.

[–] deweydecibel@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I feel like I should thank him. Nothing has compelled me to break my reddit addiction more than this. RIF is still installed, many of my major subs are back, I could open it at any time. I've reflexively opened the app so many times in the last week just out of pure habit.

But every single time I open it on reflex, I immediately close it. I have not felt the compulsion to check Reddit for a week now and that's the first time that's happened in...I honestly can't remember. Maybe a decade.

30% of it is because I know the type of comments that are getting posted now, the type of crowd that is making up a good part of the active user base at the moment, and I have no real interest to read all of their corporate boot licking. But the other 70% is solidly because of spez. Spite is a compelling motivator to break a habit.

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[–] neblem@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

I mean it is pride month, let him dig in those heels! Silly wording aside, where the heck are Reddit's PR team and why hasn't the board put controls on Huffman at this point? Where are the adults in the room? Man this going to fill the minds of conspiracy theorists for a decade.

[–] Aninjanameddaryll@sopuli.xyz 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Every time I see something like this, I'm reminded of the bathroom scene from fight Club. The listing more than the do not fuck with us part.

Not in the Dick swinging sense of it, but that hunting down and targeting the very people you rely on to function cannot end well.

Reddit has cops and criminals, doctors and fighters, manual labor and execs. Not everyone is going to resist, but the cross section of humanity that does is everywhere.

Spez should actually be very glad that project mayhem isn't a real thing. He could end up with his nuts sent press release style to a couple of news outlets. He's the fucking poster boy for the anti capitalist hate brigade at this point.

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

The full interview published at The Verge gave a pretty good insight into Huffman’s inability to manage the situation. Comparing the way he talks about third parties and his “recollection” regarding Apollo to what the Apollo creator wrote, it’s completely worlds apart. It feels as if Huffman is in smash mode and piling on the lies.

(https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/15/23762868/reddit-ceo-steve-huffman-interview)

[–] Kissaki@feddit.de 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

“We can’t subsidize other people’s businesses,” Huffman said. “We didn’t ban third-party apps — we said, ‘You need to cover your costs.’”

Too bad the article author does not put this into context with counter-arguments. "Your cost" saying that's the cost is a wild claim. They supposedly set an arbitrary, high price.

“I think every business has a duty to become profitable eventually — for our employees shareholders, for our investors shareholders and, one day as a public company, hopefully our user shareholders as well,” said Huffman, who co-founded the site in 2005.

I'm not so sure every shareholder is necessarily looking primarily or only at money return. It's equally probable a shareholder may be a shareholder to support the platform - even if it operates at a loss - because it's a good or important platform.

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