Disappointed that NPR didn’t elaborate more on how Huffman truly fucked over Christian Selig.
Huffman characterized the Reddit protesters as a small but vocal cadre of angry users who are not in touch with the greater Reddit community.
Yes! Yes!! YES!!! GASLIGHT ME HARDER, DADDY!
Do you reckon it’s innacurate? I’m not really sure. No one seemed thrilled about the plan that spoke about it there, but then if I didn’t know or care what any of this hoo ha was about I’d likely not comment or read anything on the matter.
The community shut downs are huge, but that decision is controlled by smaller groups who are the ones particularly affected by the proposed changes to how Reddit goes about things from now on.
It’s in his interests to promote what he’s saying as true, but I don’t know if it actually is untrue. Would be nice, I’d like to see them fall flat on their face with this but what he’s saying doesn’t sound all that implausible.
It’s a small group that’s very upset, and there’s no way around that… Huffman said 97% of Reddit users do not use any third-party apps to browse the site. He said “the vast majority” of moderators also do not rely on third-party apps.
But also…
“But the opportunity cost of not having those users on our platform, on our advertising platform, is really significant,”
So it’s a teeny tiny group. Basically insignificant. But it’s also such a large group that we can’t possibly NOT try and monetize them 🤡.
“Reddit represents one of the largest data sets of just human beings talking about interesting things,” Huffman said. “We are not in the business of giving that away for free.”
He believes he owns our voice. I’m just beyond disgusted.
That’s why I’m deleting my account and taking my thousands of posts with me. I will create a new account to lurk in a couple of subs I like until there’s enough traffic here or elsewhere. I’m almost tempted to go into some of the more active forums and start posting ChatGPT generated garbage that seems superficially meaningful or relevant to start fucking with their idea to train AIs on Reddit posts.
Dude is such a snake, god damn I hope he fucking loses this battle and crawls back to the hole he came from
I don’t even care what happens to spez or reddit any more. I came to the fediverse out of spite, but I stayed for the amazing community. Spez can do what he likes, this is my home now.
This dude is such a fucking joke. All he wants is good little sheep who click on ads and buys their NFTs. Can’t wait till this crap blows up in his face.
