I just deleted my main account of 3 years and also my 2 alts.
this post was submitted on 10 Jun 2023
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I deleted my 10 year old account. I was annoyed for a while, but this is just dumb. Fuck spez
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He ‘doubled down’ because there was nothing else he could do. Iamthatis was meticulous in his takedown, and short of apologizing, there was nothing spez could say to make it better.
Agreed, I have no idea how he thought it was a good idea. I'm sure his PR and legal team tried to talk him out of it - or they're all idiot yes men. Cards were already stacked against him and he just made it all worse.
Then he should have apologized?
Absolutely should have apologized. Who knows what he's thinking.
At least FlyingLaserTurtle apologized. Kinda felt hollow to me though compared to what he said.
It was good that they apologised but it probably the easiest thing out of the long, long list to apologise for.
Agreed, and while nice that it happened, doing so when you are just plain wrong is kind of the bare minimum.
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spez also just seems incredibly salty for someone that must have everything in life, yeesh
well i didn't expect much
well i wondered if it would be possible for reddit to walk back their decisions but it appears that they won't, which sucks a lot
it was a fun ride for the last... almost 17 years. but I'm out on June 30th. I'm happy to make a new home here on Lemmy!
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It's probably a good thing, the fediverse will thrive because of it, and we'll never have to worry about the horrible monopoly-on-communities doing something ridiculous anymore.
Yeah it was an absolute shit show.
Fuck you Steve (spez). You're a piece of garbage human.
Post the entire thing to /r/funny and it will be the only funny thing posted to that subreddit in years
truer words spoken lmao
A fitting death knell for Reddit that their CEO would have an emergency AMA go down as one of the worst ones of all time. This week is going to be one for the internet history books. I'm really looking forward to Monday.
Let's be real - I don't think reddit is going anywhere quite yet, even after this. It's going to get worse and worse while heavily active users and mods start to leave and stuff, but it's shambling corpse will still exist for a long time in a heavily advertised hell scape with shit to non-existant moderarion.
The truth of the matter is that while the real die hards like us will find a home in places like this, the vast majority will not care. Honestly, I'm fine with that. Most the people coming in to places like that aren't the ones driving good discussion
Agreed, it's honestly kinda refreshing to have a space with smaller, more engaged communities. The conversations I've had so far on here have been much more enjoyable than most I've had on reddit in the past few years.
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I can definitely see reddit slowly declining like twitter has been, but never fully dying. I do wonder what will happen with content creators who have their communities there, will they move to fedi or will they stay like many did on twitter?
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Idk what the point of the ama even was, it’s not like he was going to hear anyone out, and everyone that commented was just asking “why are you such a bad person?”
"Why are you such a bad person?" - because money.
I -think- that it was to try and keep mods around by ensuring that they won't (maybe) take away their tools.
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While i can't imagine how much of a shit sandwich spez is eating behind the scenes. he's just made it so much worse for himself. Dude should resign, cash out, do whatever.
i read the tifu he posted and wanted to laugh. talks out one side of his mouth about community yet they are forcing these changes through the community doesnt like without any care and lying about the devs who provide us with good functional apps to use reddit. thats not something someone whos trying to build a community does.
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Hello new friends?
Hello! Must have been a long journey travelling from the lands of Kbin. Come, sit down and have a cup of tea, why not stay a while?
Hi Buddy! It's great to hear from you again.
"[...] recording and leaking a private phone call—to the point where I don’t know how we could do business with him.”
Well, Selig did wait with leaking that phone call until he felt like all the bridges had been more than burned from Reddit's side and he officially did not want to do business with Reddit anymore, so I don't think that will be an issue...
You can't fire me! I quit!
In fairness, he posted the recording after Spez repeated something false about the call Selig was on.
@Knusper And, more than that: it shows the typical modus operandi of the Shitty and Pissy Evil Zombie. When people don't fall for his bullshit, he tries to divert attention into something else, an intrinsically disingenuous tactic. All of that with the implicit consent of the company as a whole.
And as a self-fulfilling prophecy this justifies the recording. If you're going to deal with a company that should not be trusted, you need to protect yourself, and that is what Selig did.
I had no idea in what scenario imaginable that this was going to go well or improve things, even when it was announced.
"Hey Steve, you were right. We realize we were taking your mercy to keep the API for granted. We'll not only cancel the subreddit blackouts but we'll stop using 3rd party apps, install the official app and click on 5 ads just because of how admirable your AMA post was."
-Redditors in Steve's mind
That's what I did...
No wait, I'm here now after 13 years on Reddit. My mistake.
Kinda glad this happened. This is getting so much more PR than Spez could have anticipated. Former Apollo user here, loving the app on iOS & it’s pretty straightforward. Hope this gets more active and i think this might be my new home :)
You mean app as in Apollo for iOS or app as there’s something for kbin?
There is Mlem listed on https://join-lemmy.org/apps
It’s an early test flight build - and there are some bugs - but it seems to work at least!
So happy to see quick app development for Lemmy. I did most of my redditing fsom my phone with third party apps since they predate the original app. In the early 2000s internet, I joined a smallish community just like Beehaw called Netalive.org. Hoping this community can re-create the feeling of talking to people without a mass lurker audience.
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Truly hope everyone else realizes how bad of a CEO he is and he gets ousted. He even admitted Reddit wasn't profitable. Sounds like he should have been on top of that way before now.
Admitting that “Unlike some of the 3P apps, we are not profitable.” just shows to the world, that they don't know how to run a business. This should be warning shot for every investor.
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Probably a good thing for Kbin as lots of Redditors will come to this site as a replacement, myself included (though I'm currently just trying it out).
Samesies :)
Just deleted my Reddit account of 12 years. What a pompous loser. Here to stay.
12 years here as well. Been on Kbin only for a bit, but it looks promising!
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