Spez's AMA is live, the shitshow begins

Spez on Christian (Apollo dev)

His “joke” is the least of our issues. His behavior and communications with us has been all over the place—saying one thing to us while saying something completely different externally; recording and leaking a private phone call—to the point where I don’t know how we could do business with him.

Spez is a fucking joke

Spez comes off as a narcissistic little pissbaby. Blaming the apps/devs that made Reddit what it is, rather than actually looking at ways to make the site better for everyone.

You can pretty much feel the anger from each of his replies, he's getting shit on and can't handle it. What an absolute clown

He then answered a question on the Apollo dev situation and my god, he just dug the hole deeper. He has no idea the public perception of him and reddit at the moment, and then he continues to slander the Apollo dev with no facts or anything to back up that Apollo dev did anything wrong.

For NBA fans, he's got some real Steve Kerr energy there too, more concerned about the recording of the call than anything else, like when the video of Draymond punching Poole came out.

It's an AMABIWAA (Ask Me Anything, But I Won't Answer Anything)

This is making our switch to Lemmy feel quite justified, isn't it? Although even if Reddit was still in good shape I think the potential of a decentralized platform is much better. I probably would have migrated here whether this shitstorm happened or not.

You can tell that he is absolutely furious at the attention that Apollo has gotten.

If he has any lawyers or a wife or anyone who has any investment in reddit getting an IPO they should tackle him and take the keyboard away.

Good lord, he's got a steam shovel and is gonna break into the mantle from the hole he's digging.

Man, I'm gonna miss reddit, but Lemmy seems pretty awesome so far.

I mentioned lemmy and got shadowbanned

You can tell that he is absolutely furious at the attention that Apollo has gotten.

So glad I deleted my account yesterday.

wow, there are >13000 comments and /u/spez has made 12, all very brief. He didn't even have any canned answers ready.

And to be fair the other admins linked in the top post have about 6 comments between them.

10 mins in, one answer which has -119 score...

This guy is such a weasel, holy shit. He comes off as incredibly bitter.

"We’ll continue to be profit-driven until profits arrive. Unlike some of the 3P apps, we are not profitable."

Almost understandable but did they really think this was the way to put it?

He just answered a question about their accessibility issues with basically "oh we're working on it". Come the fuck on dude that shit needed to be in place before you did all this and to be frank reddit's got a history of lying about that stuff too.

Almost 20 minutes in, and he's written 3 responses, each about a paragraph.

I'm guessing it's not going well.

even worse than I expected, somehow

Anyone noticing slowdowns and timeouts? Overloaded? Or slowing access?

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I love it when idiots stab themselves in the face and set themselves on fire!

I'm shocked spez gave redreader a shout out as still trying to work with them.

That's an other dev (quantumbadger) I would expect to be honest with his community. He'd been pretty vocal in earlier updates that he wasn't going to be able to pay them at any price since his app is FOSS and distributed as source.

Curious what his next update will say.

This is definitely one of the AMA's of all time lmao

You would think given the community, they would want to toss at least a dozen staff on this, and have prepared answers to most of the questions.

Spez looks incredibly out of touch with this ama.

Kinda wish the peanut gallery would stop posting a little bit. Like a little engagement is one thing but this literally already has more than 2,000 posts in 20 minutes of people piling on and going "uhuh!" "yeah!" "HE WONT DO IT!" "He hasnt answered to this complicated post yet".

Like it's so much noise that when and if he does inevitably reply to things it will be buried.

Also why are people celebrating the big questions by giving them reddit gold and awards? Doesnt that cost real money? I dont see the sense in going

"Yeah screw reddit! You tell this lying dirtbag!" and then giving reddit a few bucks so a little icon appears next to their name

7.7k comments already, this is mad

Fuck @spez@reddit.com

He's answered one question. I imagine that might be all he does. What a shit show - what does he even expect to do

Did anyone catch that he accidentally started one of his comments with "A:" ? Almost like he was copy pasting answers to pre-written questions.

Proof: https://archive.ph/X6EJq

CEO spez AMA Overview : Save3rdPartyApps

what a shitshow. I just saw his post

Spez is a lying POS

Lol it's just a written statement, still no answers from spez

Edit: 2 answers regarding accessibility and NSFW content