If you’re a politician or a business owner, you are accountable to your constituents. So a politician needs to be elected, and a business owner can be fired by its shareholders,” he said.
Someone get this man a hearing aid, because he's gone completely tone deaf.
Huffman said, however, that he’d like some form of revenue-sharing.
“I would like subreddits to be able to be businesses if they choose,” he said, adding that’s “another conversation, but I think that’s the next frontier of Reddit.”
Reddit is only going to get worse. I'm glad I jumped ship when I did.
He is trying to divide users by claiming that a nebulous group is controlling the rest against their will. Classic protest mitigation tactic
It would be interesting to see what happens if some of the 3rd-party devs that are being screwed over by spez make some lemmy/kbin apps that are superior to the reddit app.
So he's out doing damage control with the press.
Which implies there’s damage to control. The subreddit blackout is clearly working.
History teacher here. I find it incredibly ironic that a guy whose entire livelihood depends on unpaid workers to generate profits for him while he sits on his ~~porch drinking sweet tea~~ comfortable desk chair describes those workers as the "landed gentry."
With bigger subs, this strategy may actually work. A lot of Redditors just want to scroll, and they want their content. They don't care how it gets there.
Yeah I'm seeing that a lot. Floods of comments about how dumb the blackout was and that they just want to browse Reddit. I know r/SquaredCircle pledged to go dark indefinitely and there was a lot of outrage about it. I'll be very interested to see if it comes back as that was a sizeable subreddit
I've read that, at times in the past, Reddit has used bots or plants in comment threads to stear the conversation. It makes me wonder if any of that is happening now. I'm not much of a conspiracy theorist, but at this point I have very little trust in the Reddit staff.
The new spez company strategy will work because it has been tried and tested in many dictatorships in human history. The elites and workers (mods) in institutions (subs) critical to the state (company) regularly need to be purged of dissenters (protesters) to signal the strength of the dictator and make a coup (change in leadership) seem impossible. This lets those who are against the current course of the state lose their will to fight and pursue other avenues like flight (why I‘m here). It also gives a feeling of safety to those who don‘t care or support, since they need to see less of us dissenters.
Maybe if they introduced this in good faith months ago people would think it's a good idea. They reason now is just power hungry admins trying to get their way. Fuck this guy so much.
I'm curious as to how much money Reddit are spending on their attempts to change the narrative with articles like this.
Probably one of the reasons why they are not profitable. PR costs.
This is the thing that gets me. I'm fine if Reddit wants to diversify revenue, or ask developers to pay a fair share. But the callous disregard for developers, users, moderators, and communities they built is beyond the pale. I don't know how someone can look at the timeline of events and how Reddit has handled this and think, "this is a company that deserves my money". Huffman's comments in the press alone, leaked or not, make him look like a giant d*uche canoe. The moment my saved posts are transferred out I'm gone.
What a choad.
So these votes are going to be done by the people who haven't left reddit in protest and if those of us who have left in protest come back to vote in the polls, reddit will claim that outsiders are brigading the votes so the sub will be reopened. There is no situation where a community vote to remain closed will be respected by the site owners.
Sure, now he cares so darned much about democratic support and accountability of moderators...
Which I'm not completely sure is a good idea, but still
Now he's going to let users vote out powermods!? What happened when his buddies like gallowboob get voted out? This is going to be hilarious.
Oh, they are gonna remove admins by having their own sub vote them out "democratically". I guess thats better PR than doing it themselves? Sounds like a feature that could easily be misused too, if they do it wrong.
Yeah, if he really believes that, where's the campaign for CEO?