Steve Huffman said in an interview that Elon Musk’s cost-cutting at Twitter was inspiring and that the two have chatted “a handful of times.”
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Inspiring? Elon Musk’s cost cutting strategy was he just decided not to pay people, not to pay his landlord, not to pay his janitors, not to pay his hosting companies, not to pay many Twitter employees, and not to bother following laws, because, presumably, “fuck you, I’m a billionaire.” If that’s inspiring to spez, I’m feeling really good about leaving his platform. Aaron Swartz must be spinning in his grave so fast we could generate power from it.
I find it quite admirable really, I might just stop paying my bills entirely too and see what happens!
So now we know who Huffman wants to be when he grows up. Muskrat. And that wraps up the show for today folks. Time to pull the plug on Reddit.
@DarkGamer Sounds like Trump too.
Do you have a credible source ?
For anyone interested in the source:
Not paying rent: https://edition.cnn.com/2023/01/03/tech/twitter-landlord-lawsuit/index.html https://www.thenationalnews.com/business/2023/06/15/twitter-faces-eviction-from-colorado-office/
Not paying Google Cloud https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-twitter-stopped-paying-google-cloud-bills-money-platformer-2023-6
Janitors in New York file lawsuit https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/may/30/twitter-janitors-new-york-city-lawsuit-firing
Violated copyright law : https://www.zeebiz.com/technology/news-elon-musk-in-trouble-twitter-sued-by-17-music-labels-eviction-from-boulder-office-over-unpaid-rent-stst-240235
I wonder how twitter is even running at this point.
What really irks me is that Elon Musk is essentially getting away with it too…
Musk is probably never going to have meaningful personal financial consequences for his behaviors, but it does seem like he’s destroyed his credibility with all but the alt-reich in record time.
You can’t make this up.
He likes what Elon has done to twitter? Reddit’s screwed. He thinks Elon made good financial decisions with twitter? Huffman’s screwed too. Elon is so rich that we might never know how much financial damage he’s done to twitter. Huffman doesn’t have that safety net.
Holy Shit - talk about being out of sync with your userbase and community…
THAT statement might kill the heart of reddit as much as anything else.
Next up: CEO of MSNBC wants to turn the unhoused populations of major cities into dog food and has a lot of respect for Ruppert Murdock’s journalistic integrity.
Also this dumbass isn’t Elon. Say what you want about the guy but I think he’ll figure Twitter out. u/spez/ does not have that same ability.
They are both morally bankrupt and dumb as a rock.
undefined> Say what you want about the guy but I think he’ll figure Twitter out.
You know you’re talking about the guy who literally asked people to print out all the code in twitter’s codebase, right?
What do you mean? Reddit’s already dead
I feel like there are still a lot of people on reddit, but most of the content creators have come to lemmy. So glad r/piracy posted a link or I wouldn’t have known about lemmy
So that’s where he got all those terrible business decisions from. Maybe he can sell flame throwers to bring in the lost money.
Imagine looking at an active dumpster fire and going “that’s what I want for my home!”
It’s free heating.
That was really fast… Two weeks and the guy goes from quiet CEO to fuckboy destroying his own platform
Like Elon, his big mistake was thinking he was smarter than he is and deciding to open his mouth thereby alerting the public to the fact that he’s very much not smart.
It is better to stay silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and confirm it
Reminds me of the saying, “it’s better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid, than open your mouth and remove all doubt”
Of course, he does. That explains literally everything.
So how about he cuts reddits 2000 employees down to something reasonable so they don’t have so much on their payroll then? Like how the hell do they need 2000 employees when volunteers do everything. They were literally at 600 just two years ago.
Gotta sell ads
They did just do a round of layoffs recently that dropped something like 5% of their staff. I won’t be at all surprised if that ends up just being round 1.
Anybody who agrees with Elon Musk on anything in this day and age should not be allowed to be in charge of anybody or anything.
Looks like someone is trying to brownnose his way to an acquisition/merger.
Jesus fuck. At this point, I think Spez is actively trying (and succeeding) to alienate the community.
Thought this seemingly-intentional bid to wreck the platform had a familiar smell
Of course, why would I expect more of these two assholes
Because of course he did. It’s like he’s choosing to do the worst possible thing at every single step.
