so far the AMA has been up for about 20 minutes, and he’s answered 3 questions. heavily downvoted as expected.
I can’t even find the questions that he’s answered
you’re almost certainly going to have to browse by his profile just to see, given how nuclear the reaction against him is.
Every response of his has been downvoted to oblivion. The community has made their thoughts on him loud and clear.
I’m sure the stockholders he’s been pandering to will love investing in a company that has a user base that so vehemently hates the CEO. I’m not sure where you put that on the financial sheet, but it’s going to be interesting to see how this affects it going public.
I’m sure the stockholders he’s been pandering to will love investing in a company that has a user base that so vehemently hates the CEO.
in fairness: hasn’t this generally been true of the site since Victoria was fired? my general perception is this is just the last straw for a lot of people, but that people who care about the site’s ownership at all have pretty consistently despised ownership for years now
That’s true. Since the site became a “company” people have begun hating the direction it has been going. I have an 11 year account that is my second after deleting my first account that was around since the beginning of the site. I’ve seen sites come and go. This is just the end of another in the long history of the internet.
World of Warcraft players hate Bobby Kotick, yet he’s still the CEO of Activision Blizzard and earning a ridiculous amount of money for his next yacht.
So true lol, we’re all hoping Microsoft will kick him out if/when the acquisition is finalized.
And he’s already started with the personal attacks against Christian Selig, the Apollo author. Already. Barely 10 minutes into the AMA and he’s already personally attacking someone. What a piece of shit.
spez has never struck me as particularly capable of reading the moment, so i’m hardly surprised by that.
Yeah. Pretty clear now that Reddit, being community-driven above all else, would’ve struggled to get anywhere without Alexis around to handle basic human interactions in the early goings.
It’s like some fantasy Silicon Valley episode playing our in real life.
I feel like the “real reason” behind this stems from the pricing for AI training. Reddit wants to capitalize on its user-generated content for AI training. the safest way to do this, and ensure that no AI company can do this, and those large AI companies can’t argue that they’re getting unfair pricing compared to app developers.
That’s reddit’s big plan: sell user-generated content to large AI companies. That’s how you make a platform like reddit profitable. You resell content you got for free to massive companies willing to pay high prices for that content.
His op said he was working with redreader. I hope not as i would like to see redreader port to lemmy
nothing would stop people from forkinh though
Thats true
Don’t worry, the dev of redreader said that he has been in touch with lemmy devs and plans to make the app more general, such as able to interact with diferent sites: Link to his last update on the app
Well, at least we can expect a good app in future
He’s said four things in response to questions - every one of which is a deflecting non-answer and one of which is a personal attack. Lol. What a surprise
- sets us popcorn stand*
You got any butter and salt? Mmm, salt.
Archives to some of his “answers”
This is going as well as expected lol
Really appreciate these links! I’ve been curious to see what he’s been saying but didn’t want to give them any traffic.
Giving traffic to this trainwreck of an AMA should have the opposite effect if it mattered. It shows that you care.
That’s a fair point. It would have been better if no one went to it at all.
Here’s another. It’s hard to get them all because the archiver is really backed up right now lol
What a fucking joke
This is the best one yet! He accidentally copy/pasted the “A:” from whatever document he’s pasting his answers from: https://archive.ph/X6EJq
From what I read here, I am already fed up with it. I prefer reading a book than getting angry at this greedy unfriendly person.
And nothing of value to the Reddit community was gained.
I’m liking it here
Same. This reminds me of old school (10+ years ago reddit). Where you could just find something cool and jump in the comments and talk about it. It wasn’t an argument fest or people plugging their shit or an army of bots it was just people talking about something they all happened to see and like.
What a complete clown. Does he really not grok that no one on Reddit trusts him?
Lmao
Probably the thing that disgusts me the most in all this is how spez has been constantly trying to drag Christian Selig’s name through the mud when it’s crystal clear that he (spez) is the problem.
Love to see the downvotes; wonder if he’ll beat out EA’s legendary disaster.
Feel like this would be the one to do it if any of them beat it. So out of touch and slimy
It seems so bizarrely personal at this point. It’s strange.
He’s jealous that the Apollo app is nicer than his app.
He’s the one that blew the whistle which made the whole thing blow up.
This really makes me want Reddit to sink fast. Disgusting behavior.
I am actually amazed he answered it. Massive ego and a fucking idiot.
#1 sin to corporate America is recording ur conversations lol, dude is pissed there’s audio
Anything that ensures accountability, especially personal accountability is looked at negatively. Its not an american thing uniquely. But it is embraced, especially in the last 20 years by companies. Its why general support is so poor, especially technical support.
Yeah how DARE he look out for his rights and protect himself by knowing what he’s legally allowed to do! Don’t you know, this is America where corporate interests trump individual rights?
Oh wait, you’re from Canada? Shit.
(Just kidding, in Canada, corps fuck us just as hard, if not harder)
(Just kidding, in Canada, corps fuck us just as hard, if not harder)
Ain’t that the truth. Just look at the cartel that is the telecom companies.
On top of it all… What joke? He “misinterpreted” a serious statement…
lol, lmao even
I wonder if we can get his karma to 0
Probably not. Downvotes below -100 don’t count towards a user’s total karma.
That explains why his karma is somehow going up instead of down >____>
From his responses you can see reddit will continue their path. and if you think about it, everything is going well for them.
the probability that a critical mass of users will leave is still quite low. they will get rid of a lot of moderators that don’t fall in line. what is left will be a community that won’t mind the direction reddit is going.
reddit will turn boring, but the shareholders won’t care. as long as they manage to keep enough users after the api change the site will recover.
the only positive thing here is that a lot of dedicated people may join other platforms and start building new communities.
I just find the whole thing really false and shut off.
The answers provided by spez are completely useless and don’t really further any discussion. This is all about damage control for the upcoming IPO in my opinion. Without users, active moderators and people willing to engage and discuss… the product is going to burn at IPO.
Here’s hoping enough people can get into some simple Lemmy instances and help the 'verse grow. Time for me to find communities for LEGO and watches!
Oh there’s a Lego community right now!
What’s the Lego community called? I haven’t been able to find one searching.
I found one at !lego@lemmy.ml
It showed up in community search for me.
He was initially let off his leash and posted this. I’m sure his legal and PR teams then reigned him in.
Yeah. It’s like a toxic workplace. The old dogs might leave but those who hate change or new guys who don’t know how it used to be will stay
Hilariously, it appears he’s copying from a list of precanned responses. It’s been fun reddit.
Yeah, looking at the responses this is exactly what they want.
That’s what I expected as well. My guess is that it’s mostly somewhat tech savvy people that care about the changes. The more casual users will probably keep using reddit. Basically the lifecycle of most social media tbh
Yeah. I doubt there will be any mass migration. Instead, we’ll have a few high quality users, which in my opinion is the best case.
Yeah, I actually don’t mind the smaller user base. Although it looks like I’ll have to miss out on a few things (r/HistoricalCostuming and r/FashionHistory users don’t seem to be here yet in substantial numbers, for example). So long as we’re all excellent to each other it’s all good though (:
@annenas Really hoping that the userbase may spread out a bit, too. It’s awesome that we’ve had v. techy early adopters but I’m really looking forward to other folks maybe coming on board
agree. I am hoping the federated instances wont be overwhelming for folks.
I would venture a guess the more casual user’s window into this is only the handful of posts on Reddit that bubble to the top of r/all of third party apps shutting down. If they are uses of those apps, they probably scroll right on by and are none the wiser about the larger implications of all of this. And why should they care? If it doesn’t directly affect the way they use the platform, they will never even feel the impact of this.
Basically the lifecycle of most social media tbh
Enshittification!
I’ve seen this word so many times today yet never before
Agreed all around … although I’d add that the probability that a critical mass of users will leave is quite low in the short term.
Went about how I expected it. Awful attempt at PR.
And here I thought they actually had a plan to try or atleast make an attempt to sort things out lol
Tbh
HOW THE FUCK DID I OVERESTIMATE SPEZ
The fucking bar was on the ground and he didn’t pass it what the hell
The bar was on the ground but you didn’t suspect he had descended into the underworld. For all the questions he dodged, one of the only ones he actually answered was trying to commit to the lies he’s been telling about the appollo dev, even after the leaked phone call audio proves it is a lie
what lies were he trying to tell? Sorry, I’m out of the loop
Basically there was a miscommunication on a phone call between Reddit and the Apollo dev where they briefly misconstrued something the Apollo dev said as “threatening” Reddit. The miscommunication was cleared up instantly and amicably in the moment, but then spez went out and started claiming that the Apollo dev had been threatening Reddit and acting in bad faith. The Apollo dev responded by releasing an audio recording of the entire phone conversation (lol) which made it abundantly clear that Reddit were trying to attack his character.
You didn’t expect him to have a shovel.
Lmao from spez’s comments it would seem that iamthatis is well and truly off the christmas card list
He ought to take himself off his own christmas list at this rate
Spez is absolutely malding over him having the receipts. There’s no other explanation, he’s just pissed he can’t get away with plausible deniability.
