The funniest part of the article is how he’s slamming the actions of unpaid moderators while saying “they’re mad because they used to get something for free, and now it’s going to be not free”.
Today I made the jump and deleted my last account. I used Reddit one way or another for the last 16 years. It feels weird, but at the same time, I simply couldn’t support the platform anymore. Being honest, it hasn’t been like the platform I once loved using for a long time. Bots run rampant, the same two to three memes get regurgitated over and over and Spez has just been the idiot to break the camel’s back.
I’m grateful for reddit. It was because of them that I found the fediverse. And I too deleted a decade old history and account from reddit
Welcome here! I also deleted all my accounts. First felt weird, but now I found Lemmy I don’t look back. I don’t want to support a business run by such a lunatic.
Yeah seriously. First the apps and next I’m sure they’ll take old away. At that point I don’t know how to use reddit with the fucking ads so better to make the cut now.
I’m actually impressed how active this place is
Going to be interesting to see how much more active it gets in the coming weeks
It’s going to be a huge flood. We’ll see if Ernest can keep this place running under the load
I’m grateful for reddit. It was because of it that I found the fediverse.
yep, deleted my 11 year account today
Unless you purged your content before deleting you didn’t really do much.
Since they are restoring deleted comments purging your content isn’t doing much more. What a scum bag company. Lol
I think I will wait a bit to try and delete mine. Hopefully they get tired of cat and mouse delete game.
Same. I just deleted all my content, but not the account itself since they appear to be rolling back comment deletions. I’ll delete my content as many times as I need to before I delete my account fully.
rewrite it first
doesn’t help for me they rolled back posts, not that many, but still…
Kinda interesting to hear of that happening but at the end of the day, if they want to roll back my posts good luck to them, it will cost them more effort than it did for me to run a script to edit/delete
I didn’t have an account, but I ended up uninstalling the app I was using. I couldn’t support it, even as an "outside’ lurker. I’m happy to be here though!
Removing as it is off-topic. I’ve cross posted this to !reddit@lemmy.world: https://lemmy.world/post/205168
He demands to get his way it seems.
spez is an angry little man because someone is ruining his payout
Really, the best part about all this shit is Reddit could’ve implemented a paid 3rd party API that wasn’t insane. They could’ve updated their terms of service and required 3rd party apps to display ads. Shit, they could’ve leveraged the existing OAuth stuff to limit the 3rd party API access to users with Reddit Gold.
But nah, spez decided to be a greedy shitbird.
greedy little pigboy*
pigs are intelligent and loving creatures
Let’s not compare them to spez
They’re also delicious.
Pretty sure spez would taste like a stick of deodorant mixed with gutter oil.
Spez is a greedy little pig boy with more than enough money to never lift a finger again; perfectly shameless.
ever lift a finger again
I think this would actually make him better at the PR side of his job.
This is incredibly funny, a sub I was a mod on wanted to vote on mods and the admins stepped in and said we couldn’t do it
People have complained about the “first come first served” mod problem for years. It’s 100% Reddit’s MO not to fix something until it’s made national news and fixing it is self-serving.
Wow what a prick ☹️
he’s gone a bit doolally
u/spez is a despicable cunt and should be removed from the cesspool that is now reddit
A big fuck you to Reddit users from the CEO of a company crumbling itself to pieces.
Feels right that this was my first upvote here.
I am new here as well and I’m already liking what I see. :)
Not my first upvote here, but my second comment. Seeing the news about how spez is behaving, I’m glad I’m making the jump to lemmy. Haven’t deleted my account yet, still saving a few things before nuking my post/comment history and deleting my account
Same.
Welcome!
Yes please let Reddit die faster 🙏🏻
He’s really not making it any harder to walk away is he? The ability to remove bad moderators is long overdue, but this is most transparently bad faith implementation that I think I could imagine.
I just deleted my 15-year old account. I was on the fence because it was a part of my life for so long. I thought I’d just hang on to it juuuuussst in case. Today’s news about things made me realize I wasn’t even holding on to anything real. Now piggy can’t make money off of my contributions to Reddit. The last two weeks on here have been more fun than the last 7 years of that place.
Same, 15 years. I’m hoping reddit IPO doesn’t go through, spez doesn’t deserve to cashout a cent.
Pretty damn rich coming from the CEO of a website that makes no content of its own.
Never mind all those mods who work for free that they’re chosing to screw over and sabotage. I’m sure this won’t have any negative consequences.
We’re gonna see reddit go the “free speech” route because that’s cheaper than hiring mods. Course they could have kept things the way they were and got their mods for free, but w/e lmao.
Reddit is gonna get flooded with garbage content and bigoted shit and most people are gonna leave. Hopefully they’ll come here.
I guess I gotta get off my lazy ass this weekend and fuck up my comments
There’s scripts and bots that go in and automatically scrub your entire Reddit history, you don’t need to do it manually.
Work smart, not hard.
New here, too. Glad to be here.
The audacity of him being mad at all the people producing and managing the content on the site for him. Seems they lost sight of that along the way andncan only see the traffic of the consumers of that content lol.
Huge wake-up call when he looks up one day and goes, “why is there no content on reddit anymore!?”
