It's the literal title of the article. If you don't like El Rog's style, then jump in your time machine, head back to the late 90s, and ask Magee and Lettice to kindly knock it off.
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Pass the popcorn, this one is going to be fantastic.
Reject humanity
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/u/spez really is the fucktard in the pool here
OpenAI is another dumpster fire waiting to happen, then.
Let's not forget that they also nuked NSFW content on the API, which is at least 50% of the uproar. Nobody likes to mention it, but it's a big reason that a lot of people use Reddit.
I so dearly hope this is accurate. I've been against "dark energy", "dark matter", and "perpetually accelerating expansion" for years now. This has the potential to be a Michaelson-Morley moment, where the Ether was disproven by creating a universe that doesn't require it.
Just checked and I have the same. Will be nuking all of my subs in a couple of hours.
Third and most likely reason: you got involved in the early days with something that was really small, but mushroomed to become something really big.
I think you're giving spez way too much credit. This guy is a known bad-actor, and committed the absolute cardinal sin of online communities: abusing admin access to silently edit comments. He also appears to be on the narcissistic personality disorder spectrum, as per this article: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/01/30/doomsday-prep-for-the-super-rich
“Being around other people is a good thing. I also have this somewhat egotistical view that I’m a pretty good leader. I will probably be in charge, or at least not a slave, when push comes to shove.”
Short term, I agree with you. Long term, for me it's a virtual certainty that Huffman is fired as CEO of Reddit within one year of an IPO. At that point, the community and content may have deteriorated so much that a new CEO sees value in re-opening the API and third-party apps, probably with some kind of revenue share/ad delivery aspect, and maybe with a (sensible) fee for the biggest users.
EDIT: having just discovered Manifold Markets (thanks @lixus98 !) I've created a market for this: https://manifold.markets/IE/will-steve-huffman-be-fired-or-resi
I work with (big, enterprise) customers who are actively migrating away from RHEL where they can. There are lots of free OSS alternatives that are enterprise-grade. Even Amazon Linux is gaining traction, especially in the cloud.