Anyone else read this? The arrogance is palpable.
It’s just so tone deaf. And he’s totally lying about users not supporting the blackout. All the subreddits I was on where the mods asked people what they wanted to do, most of the comments were in favor of keeping them dark indefinitely. The rest were agreeing to the blackout in general. I don’t remember seeing a single person objecting.
Casual users probably just want shit to work and didn’t know about the black out until it was happening. They won’t notice why they should care until their app of choice goes offline or communities start falling apart due to modding issues. The issues coming from mods being pushed out, leaving, or having fewer tools.
I don’t remember seeing a single person objecting.
Depends on where you look, I suppose.
We did a poll in r/snowboarding (a subreddit that it’s in its off-season, and currently just frequented by our most “loyal” users) about whether to continue the blackout, and after two days of voting, it was literally a 50-50 split, and the majority of the comments were against the blackout. On the week before the blackout, the vast majority of support was there for the 48 hour blackout. If we’d done that same poll in February, I have a feeling that the majority would have voted to not continue the blackout. In that sense, I don’t think spaz is too far off the mark.
What the lying piece of corporate crap is ignoring is the fact that alternatives have grown considerably, traffic has gone down, and entire mod teams are quitting in protest. Reddit is going to be around for many many years, but this is the first time that I see a true push to create something different, not just for a few undesirables (i.e. Voat), but for the larger community in general.
When he says the API was never meant for viewing apps he’s completely ignoring that for the longest time reddit didn’t even have an official app.
And had to buy a 3rd party app themselves
This guy can lick my hole. Look, I left Twitter after fourteen years of dedicated use, because of that clogstomping moron, Elon Musk. If Lead Paint Huffer-Man wants to be a greedy dick, I can leave Reddit, too. I was there for four years, but I’m more than willing to find a new place to hang out. Don’t test me, man! I shot my Neopet just to watch it die!
I can’t believe this POS got away with lying about the developer of Apollo threatening to blackmail them. Why aren’t these interviewers asking about that?
Christian Selig is too decent and mature for his own good. In his place, I’d probably make the [immature, bad] decision to go scorched earth.
I imagine there’s legal repercussions involved too, accusing publicly someone of blackmail
I hope he’s got his mouth shut under advice of a lawyer while they prepare a defamation lawsuit.
Yup, this interview was one of the main reasons why I finally deleted my account(s).
I also made sure to use Power Delete to overwrite every post and comment with a tutorial for Lemmy and the Power Delete Suite. Oh, and a final fuck u/spez for good measure.
Here are my takeaways. Correct me if I’m wrong.
- Third party apps monetized Reddit better than Reddit did by actually making a profit, and spez seems pretty butthurt about it and wants it to stop.
- Third party apps have better accessibility options, but jeez, guys, they’re working on it and you’ll have better accessibility!
- Third party apps offer a better experience for the mods and users that use them, but jeez, c’mon! They’re working on that, too! Besides, look at all of these casual users who don’t care about that stuff!
