it is genuinely hard to believe how it could have gone worse
I’m actually a little disappointed. We barely broke -2,000 points on his most downvoted comment. Everyone was hoping this would break EA’s record of ~670,000 downvotes.
A lot of people are saying there could have been manipulation and the true downvote count could have been higher. For sure they are suppressing and banning people/subreddits that mention lemmy or any reddit alternatives, and spez has a history of editing people’s comments etc.
Spez knows it was a disaster, he just doesnt want himself or anyone else to believe it
Naw, he’s banking on the hope that we are all addicted and the draw of Reddit means this will blow over. In all reality, the average Redditor won’t come to Lemmy or one of the alternatives. Like what happened to Digg, until an alt has critical mass, they won’t leap. What Spez doesn’t realize is that he is creating the space for innovation to happen.
I’m surprised spez didn’t just decide to drop the n-word at some point
Honestly I think it could have gone much worse. CEO of tech company being a douche has got be one of the top 3 requirements for the job.
I interviewed at Reddit a few years ago and found the arrogance and smugness to be off putting. I went from wanting to work for Reddit to thinking I dodged a bullet. The culture I was exposed to made me think they are all douches. They definitely thought they were changing the world and the arbiters of democracy. In my experience that sort of thinking comes from the top.
What did /u/spez mean by “his joke” when referring to apollo creator in one of the ama comments?
You can read the whole call transcript here: https://gist.github.com/christianselig/fda7e8bc5a25aec9824f915e6a5c7014
Basically, Christian initially says:
I could make it really easy on you, if you think Apollo is costing you $20 million per year, cut me a check for $10 million and we can both skip off into the sunset. Six months of use. We’re good. That’s mostly a joke.
And then you can read the misunderstanding that follows and the apologies because of the misunderstanding.
