“The blackouts are not representative of the greater Reddit community.”

“The blackouts are not representative of the greater Reddit community.” Or so he says. Also:

Q: So you’re saying that Apollo, RIF, Sync, they don’t add value to Reddit?

A: Not as much as they take. No way.

  •  SmarfDurden   ( @SmarfDurden@kbin.social ) 
    5•1 year ago

    Huffman was supposedly so out of the loop – despite being Reddit’s CEO and apparently arguing in favor of third-party apps – that he didn’t realize “the extent that they were profiting off our API.”
    “I didn’t know — and this is my fault — the extent that they were profiting off of our API. That these were not charities,” he told The Verge.

    What an embarrassing thing for a CEO to say in an interview