“Protest and dissent is important,” Reddit CEO Steve Huffman told the AP. “The problem with this one is it’s not going to change anything.”
“Protest and dissent is important,” Reddit CEO Steve Huffman told the AP. “The problem with this one is it’s not going to change anything.”
How is everything he says just such a gigantic PR disaster.
Taking a poll on this one: Spez’s PR people
have all been fired in one broad, disastrous sweep like his idol muskrat did
are tied up in the closet, ugly crying into their ball gags and slamming their heads against the wall
inhabit shallow graves
His ego is too big to listen to any advice.
He admitted having calls and beeing inspired by Muskrat
Dude, looked at the dumpster fire twitter is and though to himself, that’s what I want!
These billionaires/millionaires, they live in a different world. Nobody around them contradicts them if they don’t value dissent, and most don’t. You wouldn’t believe the universe in which they live in…
Would not be surprised if he thinks, that reddit ist dependent on him personally.
Seems like your typical dumb tech bro, who lucked out by failing upwards all his life. The only valuable thing in his life is his bank account.
I’m genuinely surprised he was able to keep his mouth shut for all these years. You could tell what kind of person he is if you paid close attention, but it seems the protests have removed the filter he had before. I feel like it’s such an odd and sudden change.
I know nothing about his personality but I guess he is just very simple honest person
Being simple and honest is a virtue if the things you’re saying are principled, being simple and honest when you’re a slimy businessperson with zero sense of moral agency just makes you a fucking leech
But he wasn’t being simple and honest. Simple and honest would have been.
“Regrettably we have decided to remove API access to the vast majority of third party clients, except those designed specifically to provide moderation or accessibility features that the official app currently lacks.
We know this will be very disappointing to many of our users, and a body-blow to developers who have worked hard on their apps.
The truth is that advertising revenue is crucial for our ongoing survival, as is the demographic information that we can gather through our own app.
Application developers should stop taking subscription renewals immediately. We will work with them to help reimburse subscribers for the remainder of existing subscriptions. “
Something along those lines.
Just a thought that’s gonna disappear into the aether…
The amount Huff-spez was going to charge Apollo was the opportunity cost, not the real cost. That is, they figured that each Reddit users was worth X amount each month, give or take, in revenue that could be generated from tracking and advertisement. That actual cost per user was more like 5% of X. If Huffspez was being honest and transparent about this, he could say to users, hey, if you pay X per month, we’ll turn off all advertisements, not sell any of the data associated with your usage, and stop tracking you as much as possible and still have our site work. (I know tracking can’t stop completely, but it can be reduced.) But that’s not what is being presented to end users; they’re only being given the ability to use the official reddit app.
Then again, the promise of cable television and streaming services was that we would pay for the service, and not be force to watch ads. And then companies figured out that they could be more profitable by also selling ads, and then requiring subscribers to pay even more to reduce the number of ads. So any claims from Huffspez that you could subscribe and not be tracked etc. would have been, rightly, viewed with derision.
Let’s not devalue basic virtues. Honesty is honesty.
Would you rather he flat out lie that “we’ll look into it” or him being honest “I’m not going to do anything about it”. Being honest lets us know where he stands so we can make our plans about migration easier.
Calling them virtues is charitable if you’re doing this while willfully refusing to acknowledge the fact that you stand on millions of hours of volunteer labor and you’d rather spit on them than give them their due. It’s a lie by omission.
He could try to tell the truth with more tact, though, to avoid sounding like a complete douchebag.
Except more than once recently he’s been caught in a lie about the developers of Apollo and RIF and his communications with them. He’s not honest and he’s proven that multiple times