So now we know who Huffman wants to be when he grows up. Muskrat. And that wraps up the show for today folks. Time to pull the plug on Reddit.
So now we know who Huffman wants to be when he grows up. Muskrat. And that wraps up the show for today folks. Time to pull the plug on Reddit.
Musk is probably never going to have meaningful personal financial consequences for his behaviors, but it does seem like he's destroyed his credibility with all but the alt-reich in record time.
@DarkGamer Sounds like Trump too.
I mean, I'm quite inspired to live without paying people for their services. I wonder if it will work for someone not yet a billionaire, though it'd make it easier to become one
Well that's companies for you. The worst part is the people who actually admire these people for it. People support musk, spez, next we'll be seeing people take the studios side and call for the writers strike to end.
For anyone interested in the source:
Not paying rent: https://edition.cnn.com/2023/01/03/tech/twitter-landlord-lawsuit/index.html https://www.thenationalnews.com/business/2023/06/15/twitter-faces-eviction-from-colorado-office/
Not paying Google Cloud https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-twitter-stopped-paying-google-cloud-bills-money-platformer-2023-6
Janitors in New York file lawsuit https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/may/30/twitter-janitors-new-york-city-lawsuit-firing
Violated copyright law : https://www.zeebiz.com/technology/news-elon-musk-in-trouble-twitter-sued-by-17-music-labels-eviction-from-boulder-office-over-unpaid-rent-stst-240235
I wonder how twitter is even running at this point.
Holy Shit - talk about being out of sync with your userbase and community...
THAT statement might kill the heart of reddit as much as anything else.
Next up: CEO of MSNBC wants to turn the unhoused populations of major cities into dog food and has a lot of respect for Ruppert Murdock's journalistic integrity.
They are both morally bankrupt and dumb as a rock.
undefined> Say what you want about the guy but I think he’ll figure Twitter out.
You know you're talking about the guy who literally asked people to print out all the code in twitter's codebase, right?
I feel like there are still a lot of people on reddit, but most of the content creators have come to lemmy. So glad r/piracy posted a link or I wouldn't have known about lemmy
Welp, that about does it for Reddit for me.
Imagine looking at an active dumpster fire and going "that's what I want for my home!"
Hes just now showing us who he has always been. My guess is he shed all his PR people who were keeping him from looking like the right wing ahole he really is
What baffles me is, how can someone who leads a media company be so out of touch with reality and current events ?
Fellon Muskolini is defaulting on rent, created a literal toxic environment by cutting janitorial and cleaning services, stifled Google Cloud and AWS - two services he needs to keep the site working, destroyed the value of the company, made fun of a disabled Icelandic national hero, and this is just skimming the surface. Now /u/Spez come in public to say he admires all that incompetence ?
There's being oblivious and then there's.... whatever alternate-world insanity that goes inside his peanut brain.
I was pretty fed up with Reddit and the many site issues and instabilities they were having in the last couple years, not to mention the level of discussions that had deteriorated significantly in the same time-frame. I had already stopped visiting, even deleted bookmarks to Reddit, all in favour of hanging out on Mastodon.
I'm glad I did, because Mastodon opened my eyes to the sheer beauty of the Fediverse. Heck, I've been mucking around the Internet since nineteen-ninety-seven, and this federated stuff really brings back a little bit of that magic network of yore, full of weirdness and exploration, with actual discourse. The only thing missing are the "under construction" GIFs.
The only thing missing are the "under construction" GIFs.
Wait I'm new here, is Mastodon federated with Lemmy?
Yes. I tested it, you can follow SubLemmies from Mastodon and even reply to threads and comments from there. I haven't tested the opposite, but it should be possible.
Internet since nineteen-ninety-seven, and this federated stuff really brings back a little bit of that magic network of yore
There is something raw about it that's refreshing. Sort of like finding "a guy" down at the harbor who sells fish, rather than buying it at Walmart.
Like Elon, his big mistake was thinking he was smarter than he is and deciding to open his mouth thereby alerting the public to the fact that he's very much not smart.
It is better to stay silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and confirm it
Ok, hear me out - what if both Spez and Elon are secretly fans of the fediverse, and are taking over the major social media sites and ruining them so that more people start using the fediverse?? What if that's been the plan all along???
I did have that thought pop up for a few seconds every now and then during the huge Twitter migration, but Space Karen is nowhere near smart enough to plan something like that.
He likes what Elon has done to twitter? Reddit's screwed. He thinks Elon made good financial decisions with twitter? Huffman's screwed too. Elon is so rich that we might never know how much financial damage he's done to twitter. Huffman doesn't have that safety net.
I wonder if Huffman is also a far right extremist? Would make sense with his """democratic""" desire to strikebreak and his refusal to remove subreddits that spout hate speech.
It doesn't matter how far right you are:
You are right wing.
Jesus fuck. At this point, I think Spez is actively trying (and succeeding) to alienate the community.
Imagine looking at that dude in a constant rant against anything "leftist" or LGBTQI, firing everyone, not paying his bills, failing in every way possible to make money, becoming the laughing stock of the whole fucking internet, and say "Yeah this is who I wanna be"
What a joke.
There's probably something beneficial to them behind the curtain to setup spammy accelerationist echo chambers with average normies as the audience. Tinfoil hats on.
Musk, Trump, Spez etc. represent an attractive basic human dream:
Being able to do whatever I WANT whenever I WANT without consequences
Educated people are wise enough to know this is actually hell. Feedback and accountability keep us on our toes and teach us new knowledge. Kites cannot fly without strings.
But Elon (et.al) are too childish to realize this.
Subreddits as a business... Can you see what Twitter is doing wrong? Well expect Reddit to do exactly the same thing.
Oh you want a platform for discussion? Too bad... Here, download our tiktok-wannabe ad-riddle app.
One completely out of touch ideologue praising another isn't surprising but it is shocking how such incompetent people can land positions like this.
It's not too late for Reddit to claw some of it's reputation back, but this guy needs to step down for it to happen.
So how about he cuts reddits 2000 employees down to something reasonable so they don't have so much on their payroll then? Like how the hell do they need 2000 employees when volunteers do everything. They were literally at 600 just two years ago.
They did just do a round of layoffs recently that dropped something like 5% of their staff. I won't be at all surprised if that ends up just being round 1.
@Skyler ...That headline tells you all you need to know about that slimeball. Anyone who has any association with Karen Musk deserves to be pilloried...
Part of what's wild to me about this is he's talking about Elon's "violent surgery" as if it's a good thing. Full disclosure, I kinda hate both Twitter and Elon and if they could both just drag eachother into irrelevance I'd be perfectly happy. But even in the world that Musk (and I guess Spez too) choose to inhabit I can't really see how you can look at Twitter and call that "violent surgery". Musk is hollowing Twitter out. If I bought a store and didn't sell a thing then chose to just sell the store and everything in it you couldn't really call me selling the store profitability could you? If Twitter is making money at all, they are doing it from selling their infrastructure. Infrastructure in the form of people, expertise, their reputation. Hell, Musk seems to be only a few notches above ripping the copper out of the walls of Twitter HQ and selling that. And Spez is looking at that and calling that "violent surgery" and "good business". If that's Reddit's future then I certainly don't want any part in it.
Yeah, let’s convert reddit also to some platform where white supremacy BS can spike again… f@kk Elon and u/spez
Turd praising fellow turd, great.
Oh [censored], this just explains so [censored] much!
For years, Twitter held an outsized position in the social conversation and Elon has managed to ruin that. It was the single biggest strength, IMO. No one spoke about someone’s Facebook posts or Reddit posts; society spoke about people’s Tweets. The idiot ruined that and somehow this dope wants to emulate him?
Ah so thats what's been going on. He caught the "I'm rich and only care about making more money and/or owning the wokes or something" mindset from that other 'titter' 42069 insecure man child.
thanks for using Leebra!
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Inspiring? Elon Musk's cost cutting strategy was he just decided not to pay people, not to pay his landlord, not to pay his janitors, not to pay his hosting companies, not to pay many Twitter employees, and not to bother following laws, because, presumably, "fuck you, I'm a billionaire." If that's inspiring to spez, I'm feeling really good about leaving his platform. Aaron Swartz must be spinning in his grave so fast we could generate power from it.
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