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[–] communist 19 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Someone please mirror? I'm done giving reddit traffic

[–] pkulak 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

There’s something crazy about talking about this on Reddit.

[–] dizzy@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

I suspect the main reason is the Apollo dev can and has been pushing these messages as full screen notifications when you open his app which is an easy way to get it a lot of attention

[–] lividhen@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Would it be too far for them to edit the post in the database to skew things? Is there anything stopping them?

[–] nucleative@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I have a theory and haven't seen anyone else suggest it yet. While I am sure Spez is the tard monkey he appears to be, he only has one choice.

  1. The board/VC investors are ready to cash out now. Spez is too because this ceo job is a lot more annoying to do every day than trolling people. There is a massive payday just around the corner awaiting him and his buddies. The only metrics that matter are what his company looks like on paper to the likes of Goldman Sachs. He doesn't give a rip about mods, 3P apps, APIs, or even users.

  2. Reddit is (probably) running out of cash. They can't even find a measly $10m bucks for Apollo. They can't afford to NOT get the ad revenue from 3P clients because the bills are so tight right now. You can't meet the salary of 3,000 "Snoos" (reddit employees) by pimping reddit gold all day long.

Spez needs to wrap this up ASAP so this bitch can get put out to sale and he can ride off into the sunset.

[–] StrayCatFrump 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah. People like to pin this on the CEO individually, but really it is the cycle of enshittification that is pretty endemic to the "tech industry".

It's good that people are throwing up resistance to it—and absolutely no one should care about the fucking CEO's feelings, or his wallet—but we also need to grow past thinking this is all based on individual behavior and realize that it's capitalism, stupid! If people don't learn from this, and simply move on to the next shitty platform made by the next shitty capitalist enterprise, we're just going to prolong our own misery.

[–] orbit 2 points 1 year ago

Totally agree. If everything goes the way spez wants he'll be out and retired within 3-5 years if not sooner

[–] Lazycog@lemmy.one 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] ikiru@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago
[–] g0nz0li0 8 points 1 year ago

The fact that all of Huffman and Reddit’s claims are so easily debunked is honestly a sad and sorry state.

[–] andrew@lemmy.stuart.fun 7 points 1 year ago

Steve Huffman on June 15th: "These people who are mad, they're mad because they used to get something for free, and now it's going to be not free. And that free comes at the expense of our other users and our business. That's what this is about. It can't be free."

Kinda sucks when people who used to give you something for free stop giving it to you for free, doesn't it Steve? The lack of understanding of the irony in his statement is simply stunning.

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

This was a tough read. At this point I just wish investors would invest in something Apollo and other 3rd parties created; they’re clearly better at running a business…

[–] Meshuggah333@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

I knew u/spez and the company at large were scummy, but nothing to that extent. One more reason to not use Reddit ever again.

[–] war@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Spez is a corpo shit stain. It is a shame we live in a world where being a corpo shit stain is rewarded and lauded by the masses.

[–] burrp@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

i blocked reddit on my network. what does the post say?

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