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Every day it amazes me the new ways they find to fuck up
At this point I don't know they could catch this falling knife, even if they 100% folded on everything. The damage is too great.
I think it's theoretically possible, but not actually possible. Like bare minimum walking back the API changes, apologies to the developers they've slandered, maybe throw in a spez gets fired: that'd get back like 50 percent of people who are mad.
Of course, to do any of this spez would have to not be spez, so it won't happen.
I doubt this is really from spez. It's the investors who've poured money into Reddit as they've dicked around for 15 years. But now money is expensive. Personally I think they are looking to tap into the sweet, sweet VC money being pumped into LLMs (for which Reddit's API is prime training material), which might go down worse than "hey we're going to not so discretely kill the apps you all have built and love!"
So spez is an idiot, but replacing him wouldn't change things.
On a side note, my god was Digg's Kevin Rose also an idiot back in the day, but he was such a far better class of idiot. He did care about the site, even if he was hilariously incapable of running it. You just don't appreciate these things until they're over.
Every single asshole on the board of directors needs to go. I guarantee you this is not purely u/spez. And even then I'd be hesitant.