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Lol at the sign-language interpreter, like Reddit gives half a shit about accessibility now.
Sign language yes, real time captions no. Only whatever live transcription crap your phone or computer could do
Of the three people involved in Reddit’s creation, he was the most useless and antithetical to reddit’s greater vision.
Swartz was a far better person.
Those are always the guys that wrest control though. They have no contributions, so instead they spend their time scheming.
That goes for most sub culture. A new thing pops up, comics, tabletops, internet thing. It slowly gets popular. At it’s zenith some wise guy realize he can make a quick buck out of it, wrestles control over it. more people show up less informed but still keen to try it out. Leaves the old guards behind.
Aaron Swartz, the internet’s own boy.
You know, I realize all the people who put in money want a return on their investment. I get it.
But what I can’t forgive is killing 3rd party clients when your official client sucks all the donkey balls in every reality in every universe.
You couldn’t come to a reasonable and sane fee for 3rd party clients? Barring that, you couldn’t just buy a superior client like RiF and bolt your name on it?
Fuck Spez.
They did buy a superior client. Alien Blue it was called. Then internal politics killed it. Even today Alien Blue would still be a better experience, without any updates in the last five years.
This is what always got to me that I don’t think people focus on enough. It’s such an anti-consumer pattern. Instead of improving the official reddit app, or buying out a third party one, they simply shot the competition in the knees.
If you want everyone on the official app, be competitive and invest into making it not suck donkey balls. Obviously that’s far too much work.
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There are a hundred different ways they could have reached a compromise on third party app support if it was just about API limits. They killed it because they want to gather mobile app telemetry like everyone else does these days.
Telemetry is telling them their app sucks and that people try it x period of time and then uninstall it.
It is so terrible that I log into reddit once a week on my pc.
All that costs time, money and resources whereas flatput lying and fucking people over is cheap. You calculate how much you’ll lose, see that it’s enormously bad qualitatively but you won’t lose too many visitors because most people don’t give a fuck so you go with it.
That’s the thing. I get that people using the service on a third party client and not seeing ads is hurting their bottom line as they use bandwidth and not make money. But just banning them outright is a shit move. Ideally they would’ve made it part of Reddit Premium to make that a bit more worthwhile.
RwF
You know, I realize that some people run a dictatorship and only want absolute obedience, I totally get that, that’s totally a gettable thing for me, that’s not weird at all.
So edgy…
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Yes. And ok.
Oh so now they don’t like ads
Only ads that serve them are allowed
I’m sure their next “Reddit Event” will not have a real time chat.
I bet you are right lol
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Wow, it’s like a glimpse inside the mind of a junior highschool edge lord.
Being around other people is a good thing. I also have this somewhat egotistical view that I’m a pretty good leader. I will probably be in charge, or at least not a slave, when push comes to shove.
Well, at least he’s right about the ego thing. He’s going to get traded for a handful of batteries within the first week lol.
No one is going to give up an entire handful of batteries for that doofus.
I would. He can pedal the stationary bike that recharges my other batteries.
Cannibals might. If they’re not rechargeable.
Spez might be worthless in a Mad Max style apocalypse but he’s several few good meals kept in a basement in a The Road style apocalypse.
When i read this in 2017 i got really mad, had this in my head for weeks. What a piece of shit spez is.
he was a competitive ballroom dancer
That’s a new one.
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It will be highly amusing watching him being dragged out of his New Zealand bunker and eaten alive.
And yes, Spez, we CAN touch you.
Ew just make sure you wash your hands
Hail all mighty master spezy wezy uwu 👉👈
Aww, you hurt their delicate fee-fees! How mean! /s
Also, lol at that pathetic sycophant’s reply below your comment. Dude needs to stop twerking for spez.
Who is that comment even aimed at? Being that it is right under OP’s comment in (what I presume to be) a busy chat, I doubt it is a response to OP.
Good point.
There were many like that, lol!
I doubt they have delicate fee fees or feel feels or whatever. I don’t care whether they even care that I was banned, all I know is my ban from Reddit is a badge of honor and proves I can get under other people’s skin. You always know you’re telling the truth when it makes people angry enough to ban you.
Reddit has become Facebook with a different management team. These people are motivated by profit and that’s the only way their decisions make any kind of sense. Whenever we mix the profit motive with a service for people, the people will always play second fiddle. It’s why mixing profit with healthcare is inhumane and it’s what’s so great about Wikipedia.
i’m of another notion, i think its more about controlling public space for discourse itself than it is about profit… they want to sever access to whatever they might consider subversive dialogue and control the next generation’s access to it.
A lot of things in life are not this heavily conspiratorial…
Occam’s Razor.
The only thing that matters is profits. Those profits come from advertising. The businesses doing the advertising do not want their brands associated with things that are controversial or offensive to the general public.
Therefore Reddit is bending to their will.
Because profits.
No conspiracy necessary.
🫡 thank you for your service 🫡
It was an honor, sir!
So…what exactly was this event? Was it like a AMA? Or was it like one of those corporate circle jerk things where everyone says what they are supposed to say?
If I’m guessing correctly, it’s a modcon, which makes it even more pathetic for mods to attend an event hosted by the very people who have given them grief this past few months, just so they can feel special with their own exclusive event.
Yes, that’s what it was. I went in just to mess when Spez was gonna talk.
Yeah no worries, I wasn’t pertaining to you. lol.
I didn’t take that personally, all good. Just wanted to confirm what you said :)
Is there a difference between the latter and a typical spez ama?
Last time I saw one of his AMA, it was just a wall of deleted comments.
u/Ademir… A Lemming on a mission with a swagger that will set the world at ease…
I got banned because I said “lemmy dot world” in reply to someone who said they wished reddit had an alternative.
We must all remember spez’ has an abnormal love of cats, among his other issues. Like keeping slaves and resource hoarding.
lol you fucking legend.
Don’t forget, he used to moderate r/jailbait.
Heard this is a myth but by all means continue to propagate this rumor 🥳
If i recall, at the time sub owners could designate anyone as a moderator without them having to accept the position, meaning that its very possible he was made a mod of the subreddit as a joke/troll but never actually interacted with it.
Hes still a dipshit though
Yep. Zach Braff’s AMA account was made a moderator for a bunch of hardcore porn subs. Probably still is.
You would still expect better from a site’s founder than an actor who probably still had a Hotmail account at the time
Correct. Early reddit you could add whoever you wanted as a mod to your subreddits, no invites required. This changed after a crab bucket subreddit was created and got up to several hundred mods re-adding anyone who left.
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At this point, it doesn’t matter. Everyone thinks he’s a douchebag now.
He is clearly steeped in 2000s chan culture, and jb was a big part of it at that time. It’s a big part of the reason I stopped using 4chan, because it got to the point where there was too much chance of randomly coming across that shit. Reading between the lines, it’s very likely that he’s a fucking pedo.
someone addressed it in the main thread
