Steve Huffman's meltdown interview with The Verge
3 years ago by Ramses Revengeday to c/corpomeltdown
I don’t know if I agree with the characterization that Apollo is a fully direct competitor of Reddit.
Okay, hold on, timeout. You go to the App Store, you type in Reddit, you get two options, right? There’s Apollo. You go to one, it’s my business, and you look at our ads, use our products. That’s 95 percent of our iOS users. The rest go to Apollo, which uses our logo, or something like it, takes our data — for free — and resells it to users making a 100 percent margin. And instead of using our app, they use that app. Is that not competitive?
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Welcome to CORPO MELTDOWN, the electrifying hub where rebellious minds converge to expose the shadowy deeds and nefarious plots of the corporate overlords.
In this digital wasteland, we dissect the Machiavellian maneuvers of the megacorps, revealing their misconduct and unravelling their tangled webs of power.
Unleash your cyberpunk instincts as we navigate the dark underbelly of corporate dystopia, forging a resistance through collective knowledge and subversive conversations.
Join the fight, awaken the masses, and embrace the electric pulse of rebellion in CORPO MELTDOWN.
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What a rollercoaster of an interview.
Reminded me of Randy Marsh, scrambling for a Whole Foods, but instead it's Huffman doing damage control trying to leverage a better IPO and that sweet AI money. 'No no no, wait, we're democratic! We allow the peasants to protest! We only get upset about the 5% we don't control after 10 years and AI FOMO.'
And Bob Slydell, but it's Sir Huffs A Lot explaining how users and mods built the corpus he's trying to leverage. Desperately trying not to sound as if users and 3rd parties could align to abandon him. He worked with the accessibility apps, damnit! He deals with the community so OpenAI doesn't have to!
If only I could gif. It needs some refining but I think it could work.
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