Spez is the biggest fediverse advocate, he did something noone else managed to, popularize lemmy
(only half joking, he's really bringing a lot of people here)
If I had known Lemmy existed, I would have been here a couple years ago, but thanks to spez I'm here today!
(edit: fixed misspelling)
For real. Reddit has been shit since 2016, and every year it gets worse and worse. It's nice to be here, I haven't heard one mention of a Disney product since joining!
Just signed up to Lemmy and Kbin today. What a publicity! Cheers Spez.
I mean I didn't even know what the fuck lemmy was nevermind that the fediverse is a thing
HOLY SMOKES. /u/spez accidentally copied the "A:" in one of his replies (it's now edited out), but someone got an archive 😂😂😂😂😂 https://archive.ph/X6EJq
Transparency completely failed
Not defending that joke of an AMA or joke of a CEO, I think it's reasonable that he'll have a few prepared answers about expected topics (accessibility in this case) and copy/paste it into the chat. Now why he still manage to answer only a dozen question is, well, a good question...
It was all a sham
I wouldn't draw so many conclusions about an alphanumeric character and colon.
The response on accessibility though, holy shit. One of the early things I learned when I first coded for accessibility was to not try to make a separate "Accessible version/mode" of a site, or try in any way to intrusively "qualify" users as needing accessible changes before helping them. ("Are you really, TRUTHFULLY, blind???//?")
One of the early things I learned when I first coded for accessibility was to not try to make a separate “Accessible version/mode” of a site
This. It's so easy now, especially with HTML5, to make an accessible website. When I redesigned my personal website it was ridiculously easy to make it accessible, testing tab navigation, devtools accessibility checks, a screen reader and webaim's site to verify that each page was structured in a sensible way. I don't have any impairments to validate how useful these would be, but it took comparatively not much time ensuring the best effort was put forward in making the site accessible.
I can't see why Reddit, a company with people paid to work on the site and app, hasn't already done it. Empty responses such as "we can do better" and failing to engage with the communities on their platform that rely on their APIs to make Reddit accessible to all (such as those with volunteers transcribing content for blind users) just lays it bare that Reddit doesn't actually care
For real. That's one of the first things I learned in web design - accessibility-first, mobile-first. Accessibility is a lot easier with the use of things like aria labels and alt properties.
Not everybody can use the stairs, but everybody can use the ramp: if you're going to start off with one, then start with the ramp.
That's hilarious
Just made the jump to Lemmy today, feels good.
Obligatory fuck spez
I don't know who spez is. I'm gathering from all the posts (s)he is some sort of reddit representative, and everybody hates them. Can you expand on this please?
Reddit CEO
If only there was an AMA community moderator that could help him out... oh wait they got jeolous of her populatirty and fired her.
Wait, what? I somehow managed to miss that apparently. Pretty sad all the same :/
It was quite a long while ago. This post was her finally coming up for air some months after all the hullabaloo.
That was before spez came back though. And it was kn0thing that demanded it. Pretty dramatic at the time.
I’ve been on Reddit over 17 years now. Shame what they are doing but it’s been pretty downhill after the Boston Bomber fiasco and them changing their front page algo to whitelist only and artificial delays to avoid the giant witch-hunts that happened then.
https://np.reddit.com/r/self/comments/3clu3i/hi_everyone_victoria_here/
It's going exactly like we all knew it would. He's answering the soft questions and ignoring the legitimate discussion being posted
I love how they've stickied a comment to try to direct you to the answers because he's ignored so many highly upvotes questions that the few things he DID answer are buried.
First time I opened Relay in a week and it was worth it just to see the dumpster fire before turning around and heading back here.
He did answer one non-soft question with a non-answer, and also taking time to make a swing at Christian again.
Watch as he moves past every top voted question to get to the softballs at the bottom of the stack!
He must be camping in ‘new’, everything he’s answering has very few upvotes.
You forgot editing comments
Even then it's not going too well for him!
Fuck spez
Question 1: Who do you think you are? Question 2: What gives you the right?
... I'm Spez.
Absolutely right!
