Disappointed that NPR didn’t elaborate more on how Huffman truly fucked over Christian Selig.

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    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!

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    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.

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      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.

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        They won’t. They’re drunk on imagined power and will do whatever the platform asks to keep it.

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          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?!

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      That line stuck out at me. It’s bizarrely out of touch. What does Reddit actually produce itself? A shit-tier website (new) and an even shittier-tier app? Everything of value on the site was made by volunteers.

      I guess this is the danger of being openly helpful on the internet. At any time your generosity could be snatched and monetized without even so much as a “fuck you, thank me”

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    “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.

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      Sure, they’re going to be an adult company now and turn all of those memes, anime and genital pics into sweet sweet ad money, just like a real megacorp!

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        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

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          I believe this, either way there’s enough other questionable content around Spez to criticize him, like how he said they wouldn’t remove Coronavirus misinformation despite all the largest subs wanting it removed, much like the current blackout.

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    Dude is such a snake, god damn I hope he fucking loses this battle and crawls back to the hole he came from

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      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.

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    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 🤡.

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    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.

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    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.

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    “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.

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    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!).

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      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

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    “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.

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      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.

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        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

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    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.

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    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.

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      We weren’t their consumers. We were their product.

      App creators weren’t their consumers, either.

      Advertisers are their consumers.

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      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