“fuck u/spez” means absolutely nothing to anyone who isn’t familiar with Reddit, it’s just noise.
“FIRE STEVE HUFFMAN” is a clear, actionable statement that has a clear target and goal and actually has meaning to people who don’t know what Reddit is (like say, a potential shareholder or investor)
Idk where to put this since r/savethirdpartyapps got banned so post this wherever will get noise if you agree
Lmao you sweet summer child. You think firing him will do shit? The company has cancer. They are trying to go public. Nothing is going to fix whats wrong with the company now. It’s terminal.
This is how it goes.
Company makes good product.
Company goes public.
Company becomes shit.
Company dies.Rinse and repeat.
Also, firing spez does nothing because this wasn’t spez’s decision.
If you look at the history of Reddit’s API, it had a fee until spez became CEO again and made it free. This was when the 3PA took off.
Being the CEO does not mean that you get to actually make major decisions for the company. Think of the CEO as the face of the board of directors. They are the ones that approve/deny major changes.
You want the board changed, not spez.
Why do we want anything to change?
Why are we still sitting on this new platform talking about ways reddit can be saved?
What’s happening to reddit is the end result of the sort of platform it is and the current state of the tech industry. With or without spez, its course is set, nothing we do will slow or reverse it.
Feels like maybe there’s some younger people here that haven’t gone through the death of a platform/site before. Us older social media folks have seen this time and time again, have had to migrate from self-destructing platform to self-destructing platform many times.
So take it from me: reddit is done. No matter what happens next, it is never recovering. There will be no reset button or rolling back anything. The damage is permanent, and the profit incentives run too deep.
Let it go.
The cold never bothered me anyway.
I am so tired of this sentiment. You’re not wrong about the corporate stuff, but blaming people for wanting it to get better serves no purpose. For all its flaws, Reddit had something that no other site, not even this one, has been able to remotely replicate. I didn’t use the site for news, politics, memes, or mindless scrolling. I used it because it was literally the only place to discuss niche topics and interests.
Whether we like it or not, it’s the only place where a lot of these niche communities exist. Users that were here since Digg will find a new home, but the one who can barely use a Macbook may not. And I’m all for helping as many of those communities migrate, but the truth is that for many communities, especially the ones less technically inclined, the death of Reddit means the death of that community, and that’s really fucking sad.
Niche community boards existed before Reddit, they will exist after Reddit.
Not in a way that’s accessible to casual audiences. You can watch literally any show, and chances are there’s a sub where you can go talk about it. That was not the case 10 years ago. Unless your show had a cult following, the only people to talk about it with were people you knew. I hope that someday we can turn this site into the same kind of thing, but we aint there yet.
Yes it was a bit of work to find niche subjects in the old days but it was all out there if you really cared. Having communities too accessible to casuals is both a blessing and a curse. Constant conversation is a great time killer but the quality of those conversations really suffers.
It is really a fine line between the two and I think federated social media could actually pull it off. Reddit has been shit for a long time and the API fallout, even though it had no direct impact on the way I used Reddit, was just the last straw. No point trying to save a dieing animal, sometimes the most difficult decision is for the best.
Yes, but they will be dispersed over the internet, limiting their reach further.
Blessing and a curse…
blaming people for wanting it to get better serves no purpose
Yeah. No one is doing that. We’re blaming them for tolerating bullshit.
The users played every card they had and Reddit didn’t move a fucking millimeter. If they had come up with absolutely any sort of compromise, you could have a decent argument. But Reddit has made it very clear that the only changes that are coming are the continued enshittification.
If users actually stopped contributing to the site, they would have no choice but to roll back the changes and come up with another solution. But not even a small fraction of the site’s users slowed down for more than a couple of days.
I mean I agree with this part. That’s why I’m commenting on this site and not the other one, but that doesn’t mean we have to pretend the other one doesn’t exist and that we don’t care what’s going on there. I agree that everyone should move here, but nevertheless, most of them aren’t, and I cannot control that. The fact is that most people are not deep enough into the internet to make a pros and cons list of social media sites. They just use what other people use, or what pops up first on Google. We are neither of those things, and until we are, I have a vested interest in what happens at the other place.
I really hope the fediverse is different. At the very least, that it can evolve in a way that we don’t have these jarring “migrations”. People can just move to a new platform that federates with the old one, and slowly/gradually move over to the better thing.
Oh I was just informing people. A lot of people think that the CEO decides the direction of the company when that is rarely the case. I’ve been done with Reddit since June 11, I’m just here to watch it burn.
#nihilism?
We need to just let reddit die as a sign to all other executives that their customers are the ones who hold the cards.
We weren’t the customers. We were the content creators. We gave the site value that was then sold to advertisers, as the cost of keeping the platform running.
Thinking of platforms like reddit as businesses is the inherent problem in the first place. Running ads or having some premium features should only be for the purposes of maintaining the site. The second the people running it decide that it’s time to start making profit for themselves is the moment it dies.
That’s why I deleted all of my data before leaving. I’m not letting reddit keep my contributions to add to their value. I hope everyone here has done the same.
We need to just let reddit die as a sign to all other executives that their customers are the ones who hold the cards.
The same thing could have been said about Digg. They are too stupid. Companies start out small, and have stars in their eyes instead of money bags, and talk about how they want to be different and want to do good for the world. Then once they grow beyond a certain size, they became the same evil shit as any other corporation. It happens time and time again, and it will continue happening.
That’s when the venture capital shareholders kick in and want the money. That’s the cause.
Reddit’s customers do hold the cards. Users are the product, advertisers (and now, potential investors) are the actual customers.
You want the board changed, not spez.
Katelin Holloway - Former exec of vc capital firm Initialized.
Michael Seibel - Y Combinator partner
Patricia Fili-Krushel - previously the President of ABC TV Network, and an EVP at both NBCUniversal and Time Warner Inc.
Paula Price - Former board member of JP Morgan Chase bank
Porter Gale - CMO at Personal Capital
Robert A. Sauerberg Jr. - President and CEO at Conde Nast
Samuel Altman - president of Y Combinator and now the CEO of OpenAI.
Zubair Jandali - global head of App Developer Ad Sales (owned by google). Ddirector of US performance sales at AdMob.
2 techbro ghouls
4 financial elite bougie pricks
1 TV elite bougie prick
1 advertisement industry ghoul and all round bougie prick
Overall you nailed it, but the terminology you used to summarize those roles is really cringe.
How’s that boot taste?
Is that what you say everytime you fail to comprehend a response? Tell me how that makes any sense.
Nah mate it’s what I say to americans that see basic political terms as cringe because america has turned their entire system into a politically illiterate joke. You’d probably get a culture shock if you saw me using the word comrade but if you came over here you’d find it is in common use in labour parties all over europe.
You didn’t say comrade, or bourgeois. You said techbro ghouls and elite bougie prick. Then proceeded to slander me as a bootlicker despite me agreeing with your point.
Worse/ bigger than just the board, even; with higher interest rates, investors are wanting more returns immediately, not just DAUs or some kind of proxy for future returns.
This is why all tech companies are becoming shittier and more expensive to the end-user (cf. Netflix cracking down on password sharing, Twitter (to some extent Muskrat’s entry there was a cover for him to dump money from Tesla without raising suspicion; itself necessary due to it struggling with the same issues in a high interest environment), Google’s anti-ad blocker attempts).
Reddit’s API never had a fee, it was always free. Reddit was built in an era where there wasn’t really much difference between an API and the HTML view you see, they both had the same backend code, with minor differences on the presentation layer.
RiF had some kind of agreement where they were paying Reddit actual money until shortly after Huffman became CEO. I don’t think they were “paying for API access”, but they were a third party app that generated revenue for Reddit until Huffman came along.
This is false, look it up. The API had a fee until 2016.
I assure you it was free, as I worked there in 2010-2011, and built many bots and tools using said api thereafter. I never paid a cent, and none of the people using my bots did either
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There are three main good faith issues with respect to the API changes.
Hardly. First, there is zero good faith, and the proof is all around you. Whether you choose to be a sealion about it or not, like with the transcripts of Christian Selig’s interactions with Steve Huffman, the January promise to 3PA devs that API status would remain unchanged, the “landed gentry” cracks, the killing of the antispam bots and other moderator tools that were built outside Reddit because Reddit never would, the open lies to and about mods and subs participating in the protests, the shitty and inadequate kludged-together “mod tools” Reddit has shat out over the last three weeks with nothing but promises to replace the rest, and ALLLLLLL the broken promises not just over the years, but over the last month, the proof of zero good faith is all around you . . . and exists in countless iterations and interactions that Reddit can no longer control. But here you are, trying just the same.
And those zero-faith situations, forgetting everything else and speaking solely in regard to the API defrauding of 3rd part app devs, FAR outnumber this arbitrary “three” you pulled out of your ass. Why you even bothered, I have no idea.
Someone else brought up the Rif profitsharing that Spez put an end to several years ago which flatly puts the lie to your claim about ads, but another big one, the one that was the decider for me personally, that you didn’t even touch was how the exorbitant API pricing affected the disabled and visually impaired users of Reddit, not just the blind but anyone needing assistive technology or the help of the Transcribers of Reddit, etc, and how to this day none of the YEARS of empty promises of accessibility have ever been fulfilled by Reddit, Inc or its board.
Many of us know what goes into a site that is actually committed to accessibility. Reddit doesn’t even come close. I don’t want anything to do with a company or a community that “otherizes” its less mainstream users, or makes life even harder for those who need a little more help than average to do well. But don’t take my word for it. Take theirs:
the kind of people who fondly remember when Reddit hosted racist groups
Reddit, and /u/spez, have actively embraced and protected everything from r/jailbait to r/fatpeoplehate to r/coontown to r/T_D. Are you forgetting which sub Spez was editing comments in back in 2016, and why? It was T_D, and he was there as an active participant. If Reddit was ever a “roach motel,” it was because admin failed to act on the COUNTLESS times hate and bad actors were called to their attention, and still does to this day. It is not only extremely disingenuous, but outright insulting, that you would throw out that shredded rag of lies as another “good faith issue” when the truth is that historically, across the board, Reddit has done absolutely nothing to stop hate and illegal acts (like CSAM) UNTIL it was called out in the media, and that is their practice even now. Why does anyone need to remember anything? No need, it’s all STILL there, and will never not be there until Reddit gets called out on it . . . again.
“Three main good faith issues,” ha. Dude, you moderate 39 subs. I’ve read a number of your posts on the moderator subs spouting known and provable falsehoods about the recent actions of Reddit, you’ve made it easy for anyone wanting to check the veracity of that statement by using the same username on both sites, and to be absolutely, brutally blunt about this: even if there were in some alternate universe a “good faith” argument to be made on behalf of the recent words and actions of Reddit, Inc. you are not the one to make it.
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crisis krī′sĭs noun A crucial or decisive point or situation, especially a difficult or unstable situation involving an impending change.
Interesting choice of words there. It’s a crisis because Reddit fraudulently and deliberately made it one, and destroyed a lot of people’s work created over a lot of years in doing so. Not just devs and their employees, but good mods and most importantly, users.
Every single dishonest point you raise is something addressed during a working relationship, not after. And since when is Reddit legally responsible for what any third party has done with its access to the data from the very beginning (clue: it’s not).
3PA devs tried to work with Reddit, were led to believe the relationship was satisfactory, and then had it all pulled out from under them with less than 30 days notice.
There are so many untruths in your reply it’s not worth bothering with; it’s a list of squirrels. “Squirrel!”
Yeah, no. And of course, you didn’t touch on any of the real issues, at all, not even to lie about them, so thank you for that tacit acknowledgement anyway.
In short, “where’s the fettucine?”
Gone. Enjoy your fake MDAUs and your spambots.
I get accused of being a “Powermod” because I do a lot of grunt moderation work on a lot of large, active subreddits – and network with a lot of other moderators who are accused of being “powermods”. Most of what I do is “serious” about moderation, and I’m considered the “knurd” of the group.
LOL. I had a look over in r/ModSupport where you spend a good bit of your time. Among the sea of new scabs who don’t know how to sticky a comment, some real gems popped up:
https://teddit.hostux.net/r/ModSupport/comments/1536q1l/reddit_chat_is_not_safe_as_you_think/
Yeah. That’s the current state of affairs on Reddit. Good luck with that “grunt work” there, looks like you have it cut out for you, lol.
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If you like. But I’m not the one chasing after those who left Reddit with a pack of lies and an agenda to sell; I’m just one of those looking at it, and you, in the rearview.
Which is to point out that you are here, in an “ex-pat” Lemmy community dedicated to the subject of Reddit, spouting provable falsehoods to those who have already left Reddit as though it makes any difference at all. Reddit is in its death throes and I’m not coming back.
Project all you like, but I didn’t come to Reddit to falsely defend Lemmy to you. The reality of Reddit’s actions speaks for itself. And at this point in my life, living in my shoes is a privilege and an honor. I rest easy. Have a nice day.
For me, it would more be about spez getting fucked and not being able to profit from the IPO. Couldn’t really care less what happens to reddit at this point, but it would be nice if Steve Huffman got shafted as consequence for his greedy behavior.
It’s the shareholders that are greedy. They want him to do this.
And I’m sure if the two guys who actually made the site were still there, they’d have just rolled over and completely killed the spirit of the thing they put their heart and soul into, just because some Chinese holding company wants to increase profits next quarter…
Do you think he’s the end of the line? It doesn’t matter who’s in his position, they’ll be making the same choices he does, because he answers to the shareholders.
Nah, I know he’s not the end of the line. Reddit is dead to me regardless, it’s not like I’d go back if Huffman left. It’s more just about seeing him fail as a direct result of the stupid decisions he made so smugly.
Yeah, it doesn’t matter if they hire another CEO or put another board in charge. The outcome will remain the same. They’re trying to IPO, get their cash, and then from then on, they’ll be bending over for investors.
Reddit as we knew it is long gone. Its time to move on.
You forgot the step where someone else takes dominant control of the space
Why there’s always the top comment in any kind of protest with a Sweet summer child already giving up at the start?
I heard this is a very American thing and I would suggest you guys to change that attitude and start fighting for your rights for once. If you keep all giving up your rights will be eaten by the corporations even further.
Lol yeah. Also just because I’d like a different platform to be dominant doesn’t mean I don’t need to use the current one sometimes
See enshittification
I agree, but more just trying to move the meaningless into something meaningful. Reddits gonna die most likely because capital is gonna capital. But at the very least this dickwad could go, he’s an asshole, and the company would be marginally better without him, and idk karma would be nice if it was possible no?
I agree that it would be nice if Huffman got the boot, but I think it wouldn’t be good to let the other managing scumbags say, “hey, big scumbag gone, no one here but us Good Guys™,” which might be what they’re already planning to do.
It isn’t meaningful. It’s just picking one fall guy for your ire, and not coincidentally it’s the only Reddit executive anyone knows. Just leave the site if you don’t like the direction the Board is taking the company. Otherwise you’re still driving their user engagement numbers.
I did lol, I’m posting on here aren’t I
I miss the times reddit was written in Haskell and open source
I prefer Join Lemmy.
It’s the only thing that will actually make a difference.
I don’t care if spez is fired or not. It doesn’t matter. He’s incompetent, but he’s just carrying out the wishes of the investors.
It doesn’t really matter who corporate shill runs reddit, reddit is already over the edge that they only care about what is under the line. Fediverse is the future!
Yeah I think they’re already off the cliff arms flailing.
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Ellen Pao was actually right though. The attacks on her came from the far right and redditors lapped that shit up because reddit was (and still is) a misogynistic shithole. Her biggest crime was… Closing /r/fatpeoplehate.
If she’d stayed on Reddit wouldn’t have helped qanon, wouldn’t have helped cause theredpill movement, wouldn’t have caused the_donald, wouldn’t have caused a shit load of bad things.
Comparing Huffman to her is absurd. Huffman is a far right prepper. She is as far as I can tell a pretty well-meaning liberal, as far as tech CEOs go anyway, which is unusual given that the vast majority of CEOs in tech them are far right crypto bro libertarian fuckheads.
Misogynistic shithole my ass. There’s some misogynists there, but my experience of Reddit was that it was progressive and feminist to an extent rivalling Tumblr.
Depends a lot on which subreddits you frequented. Some subreddits were alright, but many of the largest ones would frequently have uncontested ableism and transphobia.
Yeah, a good part of that was because I stayed out of the right-wing cesspits, while taking far too long to leave the left-wing ones, so most of the cess I got was left cess.
The only exception was PCM (joined when it was merely right-leaning and not particularly PC, rather than the outright hive of scum and villainy it became), and there, it was far from progressive.
What does misogyny have to do with disabled or trans people? Other than the fact that around 1/2 are women?
The comment above mentioned progressivism in general
my experience of Reddit was that it was progressive and feminist to an extent rivalling Tumblr
Since you’re asking, I find that blatant transphobia also tends to go hand in hand with some sort of sexism, but that’s an unrelated point.
Sorry, I skipped the progressivism part.
The crime was turning up the censorship. Saying mean things should absolutely be allowed.
“Censorship” lol, cry harder.
Her platform, her rules. Don’t like it? Leave. This ain’t a government, you have no free speech rights here or anywhere else on the internet, don’t like how a site operates/what a site allows? Then leave.That’s what people are doing now. There weren’t alternatives then. And your attitude is unjustified.
Well, there was and still is 4chan. You can say anything over there, it’s a place full of freedom and rainbows.
Progressive censors are just as bad as their right-wing counterparts, but live in a delusional world in which whatever they do is right because they’re the ones that do it.
Did I say anything about liking their stances? No. They’re a private company though. They can do as they fucking please.
In fact the only way to force them to not censor anyone is to eliminate their (the owners) first amendment rights. That’s why private companies are not beholden to it. Unfortunately this concept is foreign to right wing nuts.
Yup. They can’t imagine a world where the censorship is inevitably flipped back on them because they feel they have the ultimate moral high ground.
I did. I haven’t logged into my reddit account in 8 fucking years.
Hate communities are bad
Honestly I think the best course of action is just to let them stew. We should be rallying for spez to make worse decisions and more often. Let nature take its course.
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Reddit will never be super happy and wonderful again. People’s faith in the brand has been pretty much shattered at this point. I have no intention of going back there whatever they do at this point. I think a lot of people who have left feel that way.
I’m on Lemmy now. It’s way better. I’m over Reddit.
I think the only real strategy the new owners can follow at this point is to gradually turn it into an edgier version of Facebook and fill it full of people who’ve never actually used Reddit before and have no idea what it was like before Huffman ruined it.
I clicked into this thread hoping to see this take - thank you!
I said bye, now I say “Lemmy’s pretty cool”.
It has been about 20 days for me. But I hardly miss Reddit. While my niches aren’t niche enough here yet, I am actually having somewhat meaningful discussions.
Admittedly I just took a huge jump and changed so many platforms, devices and software this month that I might not even notice the intricacies.
It’s pretty rad, much happier here just miss my larger communities
We’ll get them back. Just be patient
how about we stop talking about reddit and enjoy lemmy instead?
I agree, but, you know… This community is called “Reddit”.
Yeah i was going to comment something about stop giving reddit clicks but then i saw the community
Agreed Reddit is dead to most here this is nonsense posting, kicking a dead horse
This definitely has a lot to improve, specially in the interface part
Still, it has a lot of potential
Does anybody know a good app for lemmy im using connect now but i hate it. it has no subscribed feature for all i know.
Connect lets you subscribe, but right now I am using a mix of Connect, Liftoff, and Jerboa. I think I like Jerboa best so far.
I second Jerboa.
I third Jerboa. Feels a lot like Boost, it’s comfy and familiar…
It does, you can subscribe to communities and go to front-page section to view posts from subbed communities. So far I prefer connect over the others, most reminiscent of relay and jerboa just kept crashing on me don’t know if they fixed it since.
“fuck u/spez” means absolutely nothing to anyone who isn’t familiar with Reddit, it’s just noise.
And "Fire Steve Huffman means absolutely nothing to anyone who doesn’t know reddit CEO’s name.
I’ll go for an easier one: Fuck reddit, join lemmy. Easy and clear, and I’m not sure reddit would get any better with its CEO fired, they’ll likely find someone similar.
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Immutably based.
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To illustrate how I view your point, I wrote this analogy:
You lobby the government to fund welfare programs for the poor.
I pray for the complete end of poverty.
(And personally do 1 and ½ hours of church charity work each month.)
(We invite troubled teens to church where we serve pizza, put on a movie, and give out free Bibles at the end.)
(I swear this method is going to work eventually. Our work is definitely going to lead to the end of poverty. Have faith.)We are not the same.
Reddit isn’t about to fucking die, no matter what you want. Just like poverty isn’t about to end, no matter how hard you pray.
You not using Reddit is insignificant in terms of trying to achieve that goal. The entirely of the Fediverse completely leaving Reddit is more significant, but still nowhere near enough.
We’re a minority that was willing to switch. Arguably we may be a significant minority with the ability to make this place a successful long-term alternative, but we’re not enough for our loss to be a killing blow, even with a doctrine of complete disengagement from Reddit where even criticism and calls for change are successfully discouraged.
You wanting the more crushing blow doesn’t make you a more effective part of the effort to direct the flow of fate’s river to favor us.
You wanting more of an impact doesn’t make more of an impact.
For some actual impact, lobbying for Steve “Spez” Huffman’s resignation by creating a hugely popular, highly visible and well-targeted backlash may be more effective than complete disengagement, where we would effectively be making ourselves neutral in this media conflict.
I’m not completely certain he can be made to really feel the consequences of his infamy, but I do trust my own judgment on this more than I trust yours. I don’t believe complete disengagement is useful right now at all. We have a torrent of angry crowds we could be riding.
just stop using reddit and move to alternative site like lemmy.
Did that. Still really want to see Steve Huffman fired. And hopefully humiliated and shunned.
^
If you look into the history of “fuck /u/Spez” this is the comment(s) that he edited way back when. It’s an eternal reminder of the bullshit that he’s pulled in the past. The Streisand Effect in all its glory.
I swear some Lemmy users are worse than that overly attached gf meme.
Get off Reddit and stop talking about reddit.
Uhm, you see in what community you posted this ?
Reddit@lemmy.world
If you’re going to say anything, help guide folks out of the dumpster fire. Direct some more content this way.
Who gives a fuck what happens to / what people think of Reddit’s CEO.
Reddit should die. And people should come here. I want more instances and communities developing here. Right now I have to hope between reddit and here for some communities. Steve Huffman can go and suck dick.
He does not deserve dick, he should suck a cactus!
But not one of those super spiky ones, but the ones that have tiny hairs that are impossible to get out of your skin when you accidentally touch the cactus and hurt everytime you bump them wrong.
I’d rather just say to migrate to Lemmy, there’s always going to be a Steve Huffman, but with Lemmy it’s either impossible or incredibly difficult.
Even firing him he would receive Ellen Pao treatment and put another puppet.
Instead of “fuck u/spez” use “reddit is dead” or “join Lemmy”.
