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 teacomfortable desk chair describes those workers as the “landed gentry.”What a choad.
He is trying to divide users by claiming that a nebulous group is controlling the rest against their will. Classic protest mitigation tactic
Same “divide and conquer” tactics that politicians often use to retain power.
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.
The man is foreshadowing his own downfall…
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.
Eventually the site will be so add ridden and exploited it won’t matter
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.
What I’m suggesting as a pathway out is actually more democracy,”
This sounds like the same nonsense as Elon. All we’ll end up seeing is targeted mobs of Reddit sycophants and randos who don’t actually understand the stakes participating in bogus polls to make it appear like Reddit has a handle on the pulse of the community. Then Reddit can claim to be “fair” and “neutral” and…it’s just absurd.
Huffman said in an interview that he plans to institute rules changes that would allow Reddit users to vote out moderators who have overseen the protest, comparing them to a “landed gentry.”
Wait, what? Huffman himself is “landed gentry”; moderators are among those who have to do the actual work.
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.
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.
It’s really a shame that everything good and valuable in the world has to be boiled down to a fucking dollar sign…
Another prediction;
Moderator slots will be up for sale at some point as businesses buy them and start pushing their products/services more aggressively.
“normal” moderators who agree will get a small % of the profits.
a small % of the profits
But since Reddit isn’t profitable, that means profits are actually negative and they’ll have to pay. If they are profitable, no way there’s any sort of profit sharing. At best, a discounted reddit t-shirt that they’ll be warned against wearing in public due to the additional anti-user policies they’ll be putting in place.They’ll just start r/accountants, ask someone to cook their books and pay them with a sense of pride and accomplishment.
Dead on
Let’s be honest.
A lot of us left because we saw the writing on the wall, even if we were a bit ambiguous on the exact details.
Enshittification to the max and as fast as possible.
Yep. It’s not that Reddit is unusable in the official app, it’s that it’s a sign of more shit to come. I don’t use other social media for a reason, Reddit doesn’t have the command over my life that they think they do.
I’ve used Relay for over a decade. That app is reddit to me. I however do find the official app unusable.
Relay and old.reddit are reddit to me. I just know old.reddit is gone sooner or later.
Preach!
Without Relay, Vulcan won’t be active on the Snoo Platform because of its dogshit official app.
Reddit in particular has very little besides it’s massive numbers to actually keep users on their platform. I don’t use Twitter or Facebook anymore, but at least with those platforms there would be specific celebrity accounts or friends and family that would provide a reason to stay.
Because reddit was so focused on anonymity, you didn’t need the “celebrity” accounts to move platforms to make the alternatives feel viable. Even with just a small portion of users moving here it feels completely natural.
Reddit user of over 10 years: I’m done. Let’s say they reverse course; it’s clear what they want to do and where they want to take the platform.
Enshittification has begun. It can’t be stopped, it’s self sustaining now.
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?
Spez: update polls set upvotes=99999 where subreddit=“/r/jailbait”
Also spez: my people have once again elected me King!
Imagine justifying to yourself the idea that you own the contents of other peoples’ conversations.
If they say their biggest portion of revenue comes from the ads they serve on the official platform then why block the option for devs to serve ads and give the revenue or profit share from it.
Huffman makes no sense in any way, it’s like he’s playing volleyball with himself and arguing against his own points. Devs are wanting to pay for the api but they have been given an untenable timeline and outrageous costs.
That he’s becoming increasingly more catty and loose with the truth by the day speaks to the protest’s effectiveness. Aside from the dropping engagement numbers, the daily deluge of negative press from major media outlets isn’t doing their valuation any favors, and as the person responsible for this decision, he’s feeling the heat more than anyone.
Also, if they weren’t having any effect, he’d simply maintain the previous party line from before the protests about how the community is free to express itself and protest in any way it sees fit.
Everyone who reads these mass media stories has got to be aware that both the quantity and quality of user interaction are going to impact the profitability and longevity of the site. Reddit already has longevity. It’s trying to position itself as profitable. Seeing the CEO continually giving a big “fuck you” to a large fraction of the userbase (a fraction, yes, but a large one, when you’re talking about quantity and quality of interaction) has got to give investors and potential investors pause.
I actually worked for reddit for a short while almost 3 years ago. He seemed like a really sincere guy in the few all hands type meetings we had, but I guess the truth comes out eventually. Lot of really bad decisions made since, and the cash burn of their insane overexpansion must be hurting
