Dude this article gives me work PTSD. I hate working for CEOs and stupid fucking managers. Open source forever.

67 points

r/programmerhumour announced they would go privately indefinitely cause of this. Here’s hoping a lot more subreddits join in, and hoping u/spez regrets every dumb decision he’s made in the pasts few months.

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I never understood why they decided to come back Wednesday to begin with. Protests don’t work when you schedule an end date.

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It’s a lower barrier to entry. It’s much easier to get people/subreddit to join the protest if they know it’s limited in time.

Then once they started the protest it’s easier to extend it indefinitely.

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Exactly. It’s like saying you’re going to go on strike for two days and then come back. Like, the employer will just feel more validated in their actions if you do that.

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18 points

Digging in their heels like this just convinces me that I made the right decision as soon as Christian Selig went public with his post. This goes way deeper than just them not listening to moderators and app developers. The CEO of Reddit is willing to kill the platform if we don’t get in line—fuck spez. I hope reddit dies a thousand deaths a day as people migrate to the fediverse that fits them best.

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18 points

Fuck that bad luck Brian looking ass bitch.

That said, the more stupid shit he does, the more people find out about lemmy. Lessssgooooooo

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“There’s a lot of noise with this one. Among the noisiest we’ve seen. Please know that our teams are on it, and like all blowups on Reddit, this one will pass as well,” the memo reads. “We absolutely must ship what we said we would. The only long term solution is improving our product, and in the short term we have a few upcoming critical mod tool launches we need to nail.”

In other words, the blackout is not being taken that seriously. The culling of 3rd party apps is still happening. I hope more subreddits decide to go dark indefinitely, and that Redditors keep migrating to Lemmy.

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Dude called it noise, lol. Feudalist vibes.

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… providing Lemmy can survive the onslaught of bots, TLAs, chudiots and other wreckers who will come if/when it gets mainstream popular.

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4 points

Fair enough. I’m just going to enjoy while it lasts (hopefully forever)

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I’m going to stay on beehaw where at least they require an application to join. We need smaller and more spread out communities anyway to avoid astroturfing.

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1 point

Good thing it’s federated

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The culling of 3rd party apps was the goal from the beginning of this saga.

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46 points

Did he just try to make it sound like Reddit employees are victims of hate crimes?? LMAO

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I have to imagine he thinks people hate Reddit for some irrational unfathomable reasons, rather than just him and the other executives for their actual behavior.

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12 points

I mean that was probably good advice tbh

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16 points

It 100% is. As a customer service manager for a software company, I can say - you wouldn’t believe some of the threats we get, just while operating normally, and people are pissed about this.

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4 points

I wouldn’t do anything to them, but I’d definitely deny them service if I found a reddit employee in the wild.

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12 points

Like he and corrupt CEOs always do make themselves the victim. Lol

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We have not seen any significant revenue impact so far and we will continue to monitor.

There’s your answer on how it’s affecting reddit. May be it’s spez just blushing, but I hope this is a wake up call for the two day blackout subs and they do it indefinitely.

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Idk how this is possible either, almost every sub I subscribe to is black, why would that not impact rev?

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32 points

Two days isn’t significant enough to register as a real change. Especially since I assume most advertisers have ongoing contracts based on longer periods.

If you want to see an actual revenue impact, the blackout has to go long enough that advertisers have time to start scaling back or even withdrawing from the platform.

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16 points

Well, considering the phone calls with the apollo dev, his trustworthiness is already shot. I would be very surprised if this didn’t affect revenue seeing how there’s thousands of people not buying awards now. That’s not even getting into ad views.

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Due to his untrustworthy behavior, I can’t say I’d be surprised if he leaked the memo himself, purposely including the deflection of revenue not being impacted or such.

Sounds a bit conspiracy theorist, but I would certainly be unsurprised.

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If everyone who’s not using reddit was already using a 3P ad free app, it’s possible they’re saving money on bandwidth while still serving the same number of ads to the remainder who are still getting on

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This is a good thermometer reading. I’m pretty sure many communities are prepared to extend this indefinitely if current plans aren’t reverted. I do believe him when he says

We absolutely must ship what we said we would.

I don’t know who the angry VCs are who get to pull his strings but if this gets their attention - it may or it may not - reddit might budge on things a bit.

At the end of the day the company is hopeless to make a profit with him at the helm. This memo sounds slightly nervous and lacks confidence. He has no clue what he’s doing.

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It needs to affect revenue. To do that it needs to last.

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8 points

Yeah last time an executive told me that it didn’t happen and he got fired within 2 years

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Same. Angry VC money is a demon that’s not worth summoning.

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