A man who grabbed our concept of a centralized internet by the balls and squeezed it so hard that the Lemmy’s user count 65xed in a 3 months period. Thank you for your service
A man who grabbed our concept of a centralized internet by the balls and squeezed it so hard that the Lemmy’s user count 65xed in a 3 months period. Thank you for your service
Idk, dicks can be pretty hot. A hairy ballsack, now that's almost universally seen as not attractive
Oh I respect that, I can see why someone wouldn't like them.
After seeing his face I'd rather use a different terminology.
How about „u/spez ist ein Hurensohn“?
Ich bin nicht Deutsch, aber ok u/spez ist ein Hurensohn
Toilet Spez
fuck spez
Fuck spez
Pretty sure that was my last Reddit comment. Can’t check because I haven’t seen my account since Apollo died.
RIP Apollo 🪦
Fuck spez
That's no way to talk about Lemmy's single greatest advocate!
May he be forever fucked.
It really is funny. The only reason I went to reddit is that my phone app for news at the time (2011) took a shit and someone recommended reddit. I downloaded an app and that was the only way I interacted with reddit for over a decade. Then he killed that app and I figured if I'm going to have to adjust to a new app, I'm going elsewhere. What a dumbass.
I don't even need to adjust to a new app anymore now that boost is here lol
It's WHAT‽
My guy I need to get in on that, brb!
The app you used for taking a shit took a shit? How ironic.
Is the next step for Reddit to make all users pay?
Fuck Musk, Spez, and Zuck, and throw in Gates and Bezos while you're at it. Each of them has made their own personal empires of shit.
You can't mention those and not mention Larry Ellison. If it weren't for him, OpenOffice wouldn't have forked.
Yes, I would also like to know about this Larry Ellison.
The link doesn’t load. What did Gates do that you‘d put him in the same category as the rest?
Gates continued his bullshit well into his philanthrophy days.
And it looks like that the invidious instance that served my original post’s link is temprarily down. So here's another link.
My first reaction upon seeing this picture is "that guy has serious nazi energy" Sure enough, I was right.
I see it too, but does he seriously? I used to go on reddit a lot, but never followed the personalities very closely
i dont think so, but he did edit peoples comments so they agreed with what spez believes
and reddit used to have a running joke of mods and admins being nazis, which the admins also joked about but that was a decade ago
There are a fair few mods who are genuinely installed by the admins to be fascists, and if any of the other mods complain they get kicked out. Also I have yet to see a single instance of some group in power joking that they're nazis where they didn't end up actually being nazis.
He's famous for having said that he's looking forward to the zombie apocalypse because it would let him live his fantasy of being a slaver.
There was also a hate subreddit where the mods all had a collective turn of heart and decided to shut down, but then reddit stepped in, reestablished the place, cleared house and then installed a new set of mods so that the subreddit could keep running. Yes, seriously.
The wrong reddit co-founder died.
RIP Aaron Swartz.
Someone look into it i heard he was into free speech and i wouldn't put it past spez to kill that guy for some personel gain.
Never forget that this cunt took the best parts of Reddit from us, cheers for that mate
Same. My very first thought upon seeing a picture of this ghoul was "of course he looks like that"
Man, he even looks like a cunt.
I was banned from /r/funny for commenting on a spam post, place is so dumb
My 12 year account was banned. Still not sure why. Prior to that, i was banned from r/idiotsincars for speaking out against stereotypical jokes on Asians with bad driving by stating the statistics that Asians are not the worst driver. I guess that ruined their joke in that subreddit. Then they shadow banned me. My new accounts posts can't be seen by the public.
See I kept trying to tell people, cuz I was in that Century Club thing that you get from having me a certain amount of likes my comment or Good Karma or whatever.
And I told people that sub reddit bans need to be made 90 days of the longest, simply because the permanent bans were being blatantly abused.
I had many people agreeing with me
Seems like they doubled down
To be honest, Reddit is too liberal. And this is coming from a long time liberal voter. You can't say anything anymore. Everything is sensitive and inappropriate base on what's trendy. Freedom of speech means there should be of different voices. But reddit only wants certain voices. Apparently, the downvoting system is not enough. They have to go extra step to let a small group of individuals to decide, okay this guy will be forever banned from posting on Reddit. That's insane amount of power and influence. I now lost my voice on one of the most popular and engaging social media platform. Crazy huh.
Exactly, honestly, even though it's not as okay to say as it used to be, it almost felt liberating to see the word "retarded" used on a forum without that person being automatically banned.
Reddit summarized: I got temp banned from a subreddit for calling a neo-nazi a cracker so I made the mod's message "Calling someone a cracker isn't standing up to racism" my flair on SubredditDrama where I proceeded to get perm banned from for spoiling Hogwarts Legacy before literally everyone on that subreddit started doing it so it was reduced to a temp. Oh and that one time I got a perm from a certain hexbear-affiliated subreddit for pointing out that some guy receiving a bunch of positive attention was probably an anti-semite but it would be a few years later before I got banned entirely off that site. Point is, reddit mods will ban you over the stupidest shit.
It really is telling that I've been on the internet since way before I should have been on the internet, and the only thing I've ever been banned from are various credits and then Reddit itself.
"The best union organiser is the boss" sort of vibe
Who is this 😅
I believe this is Steve Huffman (aka u/spez) the co-founder and CEO of Reddit. (wikipedia)
This controversy is what this post is most likely referring to.
Fuck spez
And thanks spez
Yep I don't miss it either. In hindsight I think I had enough of liberals condescendingly explaining to me that this is the "end of history".
I'd like to explain a little about my own personal lord and saviour, I call him the 'end of history.'
Lmao thx
Mandatory fuck Reddit is in order...

He may even be more skilled at ruining platforms than Elon Musk, and that is no easy task
Wait, is that spez? I kinda pictured him looking more pale and android like, more similar to zuck than this.
Perhaps you have a blue light filter on? Pale and Android like is exactly what I'm seeing.
To me he looks a lot more human than zuck and slightly less pale. Maybe it's the difference in screen/hardware, since I don't use blue light filters and let my eyes burn.
He looks like a robotic pug.
He DM'd me and told me my elbows are too pointy. 😞
That's a quality example of a lame insult, I think I'll borrow it
For real? 2012 negging moment
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He looks like a teenager still living in his moms basement
Oh cool, I love Queens of the Stone Age!
♪ Close your eyes and see this site is falling ♪
Lemmy, sure, but probably not the fediverse I'd guess, since the most popular fedi platform is mastodon, meant to recreate Twitter rather than Reddit
That whole debacle is so satisfying. From the beginning, he has bungled everything about it. I get so much schadenfreude watching the patron saint of "I am very smart" bleeding money.
I also like how it's affecting all the other businesses: Tesla, Space X, etc. People who looked up to him were proud to own Teslas, now people are ashamed, and looking more critically. Any factions in the government who were happy to rely on Space X to resupply the ISS are now probably having to defend their assessments. I just hope that it spreads to other "genius" billionaires like Ellison and Bezos and their businesses.
Oh look, a goatse. That takes me back.
You can take the turd out of the toilet, but you can't take the toilet out of the turd.
I... what?
*investor's
Like Steven Seagal and aikido.
Suck fpez
Cunty McCuntface, known for being the CEO of Reddit. And if that doesn't ring a bell he himself has basically said he's a wannabe Musk. That should give a good indication of the kind of person we're dealing with here.
Did this man come for a reason besides Reddit
Cause if so that's awesome and quite rare from what I've seen
Acct created June 9, 2023. Probably not, but I also didn’t recognize spezs face
Now, we have centralized communities on privately held domains names. How is that supposed to not go exactly like digg/Reddit all over again, if it ever becomes popular ?
I should be able to go to /c/books on any server and see all /c/book from all servers. Content discovery and curation/moderation filters are then applied in top of the raw feed as subscriptions chosen by the user with community suggested defaults chosen out of the choices from high reputation users's subscription.
In practice there's a big one and unless there's a big schism that fragments the community, the big community will suck the air out for any smaller community in any topic.
Worse if it actually worked as intended and each tiny community stayed fragmented forever and em never amounted to anything.
I question if it is by design to prevent the formation of true, fediverse wide, decentralized but coalesced community.
If it is by accident, then it is a huge missed opportunity.
But I don't think it's by accident. The protagonist of Lemmy is the instance owner and the moderator, not the user. So the important part of the network is the instance fiefdom, not the whole network. Instances should just be another mirror of the whole, instead of tiny dictatorships.
he looks like a bootleg Rob Beckett.
Good ol Tombstone Teeth
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Who is that young boy and why isn't he in school?
Everyone at school was legally required to bully him and it was talking up too much time from everyone's schedules (not to mention the regular bullies who basically had their duties doubled, underpaid teachers had to bully him in their spare time, etc) ... so they told him he was a boy genius, gave him a degree & threw him out - now he's everyone else's problem.
Scumbag
A big hurrah for the Lemmy Lord...
... of metal. And social platform.
Just erased all my comments and deleted my account. I will be a read-only user, because YourSearchEngine will probably suggest me some reddit results in my tech/misc requests.
EDIT: I refer to the tool i used here: https://lemmy.ninja/comment/1943034
And yet he makes more money out of it.
Thats the real shame those enshittifications dont have consequences as long as people dont change and i know most wont
Thoughts and prayers.
Buck toothed tiny dick
Like, I'm supportive of pushing the tech, but your comment is delusional and absurd.
Grabbing by the balls? 🤣👌👍
Wait, he hurts butts of teenagers too?? Outrageous, but not unexpected.
I read it somewhere that he likes fish sticks and smells of elderberries.
Hello there king ubermeisters,
It is I, the humble spokesperson for all of Lemmy. We sincerely apologize for falling short of your almighty opinion of opinions and expectations! How naive of us to air our own feelings about someone online and forget about your precious opinions and reaction to reactions.
In the future we will try Uber hard to think about your all-important feelings about another lying corpo pig who outright lied and defrauded one of his own user base. Surely one day your ball gobbling sycophant glory will be repaid in full through a deep and rough anal plunging you so clearly desire. Soon you will join the ranks of your masters - do not fret us lowly people.
Sincerely,
Eat shit.
Dude not only had to go through my post history to come up with something but STILL only came up with “only idiots use the word sycophant”
Don’t try to play like your self esteem isn’t so low that, despite blocking me, you’ll still come back to check.
Stay bitter and angry and continue to wonder why our life is so miserable.
@lemmy.ml
go to feed...
@lemmy.ml
go to feed...
Oh hey, it's cunt face.
save