Spez's AMA is live, the shitshow begins : lemmy

[-] mustyOrange@beehaw.org 36 points 1 year ago

Spez on Christian (Apollo dev)

His “joke” is the least of our issues. His behavior and communications with us has been all over the place—saying one thing to us while saying something completely different externally; recording and leaking a private phone call—to the point where I don’t know how we could do business with him.

Spez is a fucking joke

[-] zarquon@sh.itjust.works 34 points 1 year ago

I loved the commentary on that exchange from hackernews.

""" fwlr 8 minutes ago | prev | next [–]

The rule that you shouldn’t build your business on someone else’s API obviously applies here and in the end Reddit is of course justified in choosing to shut out third party apps. But I must say it is simply hilarious that their exorbitant new price was so absurd that when devs quoted it back to them as a buyout rate, Reddit felt like they were being blackmailed. I mean that’s literally getting offended at your own number. """

He's right. If you think the golden goose lays $x/yr and the guy offers it at $.5x and it offends you, you've got a problem with yourself.

[-] Barbarian@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 year ago

Check the response from /u/iamthatis. Absolutely savage.

[-] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 11 points 1 year ago

What an asshole. Still trying to ruin iamthatis.

For fuck's sake dude, sorry that you wanted to only quietly out that you're an asshole and he made sure we all know what a giant, gaping asshole you are.

WHEN I AM AN ASSHOLE I HAVE THE EXPECTATION THAT OTHER PEOPLE KEEP IT PRIVATE

[-] BackOnMyBS@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

spez is a straight up narcissist that uses the same playbook as the rest. it's so evident with the gaslighting, blame-shifting, and smear campaign. at this point, anything he says should be understood to be a tactical play in gaining control by seeming powerful, "on your side," or requiring pity as a victim. his mind is deranged, so he has no other capacity.

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[-] theory@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 year ago

https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/145bram/comment/jnk5inf/?context=3

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[-] PunsNRoses@kbin.social 27 points 1 year ago

Spez comes off as a narcissistic little pissbaby. Blaming the apps/devs that made Reddit what it is, rather than actually looking at ways to make the site better for everyone.

[-] BackOnMyBS@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Blame-shifting is a tenet of narcissism. They can't be grandiose and entitled without it.

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[-] BrokenToshy@beehaw.org 23 points 1 year ago

You can pretty much feel the anger from each of his replies, he's getting shit on and can't handle it. What an absolute clown

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[-] Outsider@kbin.social 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

He then answered a question on the Apollo dev situation and my god, he just dug the hole deeper. He has no idea the public perception of him and reddit at the moment, and then he continues to slander the Apollo dev with no facts or anything to back up that Apollo dev did anything wrong.

For NBA fans, he's got some real Steve Kerr energy there too, more concerned about the recording of the call than anything else, like when the video of Draymond punching Poole came out.

[-] primalmotion@lemmy.antisocial.ly 19 points 1 year ago

It's an AMABIWAA (Ask Me Anything, But I Won't Answer Anything)

[-] lemillionsocks@beehaw.org 8 points 1 year ago

Just like most high profile AMA's on reddit. But yeah it's pretty obvious theres a lot of money to be made here and as a mouthpiece for this company they arent going to give a lot of straight answers. Honestly I'm not sure why theyre even bothering with an AMA instead of just an announcement addressing concerns but they want to keep the reddit image I guess.

That image is dead and buried and has been since the site became one of the biggest on the web but what are you gunna do.

[-] bigbox@lemmy.ml 17 points 1 year ago

This is making our switch to Lemmy feel quite justified, isn't it? Although even if Reddit was still in good shape I think the potential of a decentralized platform is much better. I probably would have migrated here whether this shitstorm happened or not.

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[-] wagesof@links.wageoffsite.com 16 points 1 year ago

If he has any lawyers or a wife or anyone who has any investment in reddit getting an IPO they should tackle him and take the keyboard away.

Good lord, he's got a steam shovel and is gonna break into the mantle from the hole he's digging.

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[+] cwagner@discuss.tchncs.de 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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[-] TeaHands@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

That guy is a menace!

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[-] nick_99@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 year ago

Man, I'm gonna miss reddit, but Lemmy seems pretty awesome so far.

[-] theory@sopuli.xyz 13 points 1 year ago

I mentioned lemmy and got shadowbanned

[-] Anon125@feddit.nl 8 points 1 year ago

Haha pathetic. Let's see if that also works for me.

[-] untilyouarrived@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago

You can tell that he is absolutely furious at the attention that Apollo has gotten.

[-] HrBingR@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago

Yeah he seems incredibly bitter.

[-] beto@lemmy.studio 11 points 1 year ago

So glad I deleted my account yesterday.

[-] MoreCoffee@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago

Considering doing the same after 14 years of using reddit. End of an era I suppose. I think Lemmy has a ton of potential though.

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[-] untilyouarrived@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago

You can tell that he is absolutely furious at the attention that Apollo has gotten.

[-] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 15 points 1 year ago

Mad, mad props to Apollo's dev for being so transparent about it. Guaranteed they thought they could bully him into staying quiet about it and then closing up shop. He told them to pound sand and controlled the narrative. That man needs to do documentaries or reporting. Meticulous, knew how to talk to a crowd, and not afraid of corporations bullying him.

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[-] density@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago

wow, there are >13000 comments and /u/spez has made 12, all very brief. He didn't even have any canned answers ready.

And to be fair the other admins linked in the top post have about 6 comments between them.

[-] OptimsticDolphin@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

I can't say I am surprised, it is probably in their best interests to not tell people too much

[-] Geometric7792@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

What a terrible AMA lol. I'm not surprised but it's still somehow worse than I imagined it would be.

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[-] OptimsticDolphin@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

"We’ll continue to be profit-driven until profits arrive. Unlike some of the 3P apps, we are not profitable."

Almost understandable but did they really think this was the way to put it?

[-] density@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago

"I am bad at my job"

oooohhkkkkay

[-] perkele@sopuli.xyz 8 points 1 year ago

Sounds like a skill issue, Mr. CEO

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[-] iNeedScissors67@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago

This guy is such a weasel, holy shit. He comes off as incredibly bitter.

[-] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 8 points 1 year ago

You just know every comment is being vetted by legal, marketing, and PR. Coward. Can't say anything without corporate double speak

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[-] Slartibartfast@beehaw.org 9 points 1 year ago

10 mins in, one answer which has -119 score...

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[-] Spellblade@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago

He just answered a question about their accessibility issues with basically "oh we're working on it". Come the fuck on dude that shit needed to be in place before you did all this and to be frank reddit's got a history of lying about that stuff too.

[-] wagesof@links.wageoffsite.com 7 points 1 year ago

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I love it when idiots stab themselves in the face and set themselves on fire!

[-] bouncing@partizle.com 7 points 1 year ago

Almost 20 minutes in, and he's written 3 responses, each about a paragraph.

I'm guessing it's not going well.

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[-] lackthought 7 points 1 year ago

even worse than I expected, somehow

[-] lemillionsocks@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Kinda wish the peanut gallery would stop posting a little bit. Like a little engagement is one thing but this literally already has more than 2,000 posts in 20 minutes of people piling on and going "uhuh!" "yeah!" "HE WONT DO IT!" "He hasnt answered to this complicated post yet".

Like it's so much noise that when and if he does inevitably reply to things it will be buried.

Also why are people celebrating the big questions by giving them reddit gold and awards? Doesnt that cost real money? I dont see the sense in going

"Yeah screw reddit! You tell this lying dirtbag!" and then giving reddit a few bucks so a little icon appears next to their name

[-] Two9A@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago

I'll admit to a little shitposting in the AMA thread to be fair, but mostly to promote Fediverse alternatives where people are asking where they can go.

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[-] zarquon@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm shocked spez gave redreader a shout out as still trying to work with them.

That's an other dev (quantumbadger) I would expect to be honest with his community. He'd been pretty vocal in earlier updates that he wasn't going to be able to pay them at any price since his app is FOSS and distributed as source.

Curious what his next update will say.

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[-] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 6 points 1 year ago

Anyone noticing slowdowns and timeouts? Overloaded? Or slowing access?

[-] ag_roberston_author@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago

Probably just thousands of angry Redditors accessing the thread at once.

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[-] OptimsticDolphin@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

7.7k comments already, this is mad

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