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Is /u/spez really just incompetent (feddit.de)
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I have a feeling like he is being squeezed by the investors. It feels like they want a tiktok/Instagram clone and he is the one that has to tell the Reddit community.

I don't think this was his vision for the site or he would have done it years ago.

Like it doesn't make it less shitty but more understandable I guess?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I get that he may be under pressure to make unpopular decisions, but I still can't believe that he invited the whole of Reddit to an AMA and then just answered 14 questions - as if that wouldn't turn out to be the PR disaster it was. Trying to think of a rational explanation beyond "just incompetent" is really hard after that - unless he has some hidden agenda that involves sabotaging Reddit. There's surely no way he couldn't have known that AMA would be a disaster.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I think the AMA was to slander the Apollo Dev and make him seem unreasonable. The 1$ per user and month line suggests this to me. Christian just pre-empted it with his post but since they had already made the announcement there was no going back now.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

My reaction to the AMA was "...but he's lying! How did he think that would end?!"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

If the Relay for Reddit dev thinks he can do it for $3/month, maybe spez has a point? Please let me know where I'm going wrong with this line of reasoning