Reddit CEO slams protesters, says he'll change site rules

the irony of a goddamned CEO calling unpaid volunteers "landed gentry"

When a tree dies, it dies slowly. The heart of it rots, and then the roots stop growing, and only much later do the branches stop growing new green leaves. By the time the whole trunk falls over, there've been raccoons burrowing into the rotten heartwood for years.

So, by his reasoning isn't he the ultimate "landed gentry"? He's CEO simply because he's been there since the beginning not because of any particular business acumen. Should we put it to a reddit wide vote to see if he should retain that title or be kicked to the curb? He likes votes, right? He likes democracy, right? Right?

If I can't win I'll make my own rules...Jesus guy just admit you were wrong.

Side note, did anyone see how /r/Pics handled this after they opened back up because it was beautiful. Around 2300 users voted to open /r/Pics again and 37k users voted to keep protesting in their own special way.

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I love the irony of him calling Reddit a democracy while also refusing to budge on the API issue. You can’t have it both ways.

This week’s rebellion is a response to part of Reddit’s plan to succeed as a business

Not a hint of bias in this article, is there?

Did you see that they removed the top level mod of /r/Piracy and was looking for a new one? Soooo they support piracy now? https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/35555

Hilarious that he wants democracy to get rid of mods, but he wants absolute power for himself.

And tell me more how this will attract unpaid mods.

I just visited reddit for the first time in a week and it feels gross 😝

After seeing what r/pics and r/gifs are doing I doubt voting would work out in his favor anyway. A surprising about of the user base is behind the protest.

Will just lead to even more leaving.

Like I give a fuck anyway, reddit is dead to me now. Died a long time ago when my front page, even advice animals, got clogged with political and mediocre posts.

Reddit went mediocre a long time ago

So part of the issue with this "democracy" idea and making it easier to vote out mods is that Huffman has literally been found guilty of changing comments.

That, along with the fact that we can't trust reddit to not chime in with false accounts to swing the vote make me dubious that it would work.

“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.”

How ominous. This was an interview excerpt, so I have no way of verifiably knowing what Huffman looked like as he said this... but I'm fairly confident that he must have been rubbing his hands together and salivating as his pupils slowly morphed into dollar signs.

As I go back there now after the protest, I find reddits' content less and less interesting. I used to be able to lose hours on there, now I get bored after 5 minutes and get back to lemmy. It'll keep on existing, but here's hoping many more mainstream and non-techy users like me found the fediverse and know there's valid alternatives now.

Gee, I feel so slammed right now, you don't even know.

He could be saying this to appease investors. Meh he can go right ahead. Done with Reddit and the ad spam.

F U/Spez.

Is anyone else really entertained at this point by watching this pompus asshat's arrogance single-handledly dismantling the pretty solid reputation Reddit has as a social media platform? It's like I blink and he thinks "hmm, how can I say something worse to show everyone how strong and powerful I am?"

I mean if Reddit's going to go down, may as well go down in the most spectacular self-emulation possible. Solid alternatives are already formed and off to the races. Go off my guy.

fine, do it then. I dare you. I double dog dare you!

Really hoping the hardcore people are here now. Fuck *eddit.

"minority"

Go ahead dude, I'm done with reddit.

Oh no, this will attract unpaid mods.

A lot of mods already opened back up. Reddit wont have to do nothin the way things are going

Did anybody else lose the ability to report? I guess that's why I got a week ban for "report abuse" even though the linked report was agreed with and actioned by Reddit, they're starting to take down anyone flagging the Christoterroism shit since Spez has allied up with Musk.

Does this dude even use reddit? The proper response on reddit to users not agreeing with mods is to start their own sub to fill the void. That's what happened with r/animetitties. But guess what - no one is doing that because we all don't want to see these changes. Sorry to vent more about this loser, but c'mon man.

Might want to post this on c/reddit - It'll probably be removed here, check the mod post for c/lemmyworld: Community moderation policy

Judging by what I saw on my last day on Reddit, he may be right.

Anybody else starting to suspect that spez might have committed a teeny tiny bit of investor fraud?

Who?

K, thx bye. So long and thanks for all the fish