Reddit CEO assures employees that API pricing protests haven’t hurt revenue

Furor "will pass," Huffman says in internal memo reportedly viewed by The Verge.

Especially love the part about not wearing Reddit gear in public, like someone's going to beat them up, lol.

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What are they gonna do? Admit it?
- According to how he justified this whole fiasco, they aren't profitable so... Okay, enjoy still not being profitable? 👍🏼
- Given how much he has already lied I don't believe him one bit. Taking an adversarial approach against your own community should tell them everything they need to know about how things will progress from here.
  
  Taking an adversarial approach against your own community
  
  This is why even if things go back to "normal" I'm much more interested in seeing where this fediverse thing is going (which is something I wasn't even aware existed a few days ago, so thanks reddit, I guess?)
They won't say something that hurt investors confidence
- He already publicly admitted that Reddit isn't profitable. I'm sure that inspired tons of confidence in investors.
API pricing protests haven’t hurt revenue

In industry terms, this is known as cope
If I see someone wearing reddit gear in public I'm giving them a wedgie
- Be careful that was the narrative that asshole was pushing like people were going to hurt reddit employees lol.
  
  That was one of his first internal comms was "stop wearing reddit gear in public"

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