The landed gentry are only in charge until the king comes to town and chops off a few heads. At least that seems to be the case at Reddit, where CEO Steve Huffman pretended his complaints about current moderators — who were protesting his decision to effectively cut off API access to tons of useful…

  • @penisthightrap
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    722 years ago

    Proof that people will gladly support a good product.

    • @[email protected]
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      2 years ago

      These guys aren’t happy with some support. They want all the support i.e. money. Feels like no tech corporation thinks about its products long term anymore. Just the most readily available cash grabs possible, even if it means possibly losing future revenue.

      • @catwhowalksbyhimself
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        142 years ago

        Well, as other people have said, it looks like they were preparing to sell Reddit, or take it public, or whatever, and they wanted to make it look as profitable and purchaseable as possible.

        The end result is the same, but the reasoning is a bit different.

        Anyhow, if that’s true, I dare say they’ve achieved the opposite result now.

        • @[email protected]
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          52 years ago

          Spez explicitly said in his AMA that third party apps were profitable while reddit wasn’t.

          • @catwhowalksbyhimself
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            32 years ago

            Which isn’t mutually exclusive, plus he can’t really talk about any planned sales before they are actually announced anyway.

        • alaphic
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          52 years ago

          So, shall we start calling this ‘the Reddit Effect?’ We haven’t had anything new to supplant the Streisand Effect for awhile, I feel like something like this is overdue

          • @catwhowalksbyhimself
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            82 years ago

            So the Reddit Effect would be a company trying to do something to raise it’s value or make it look good that has the opposite effect?

            I don’t think there’s another name for that, so sure, why not?

        • @Buddahriffic
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          22 years ago

          Yeah, at this point, they could completely reverse course and it still wouldn’t make a difference to me. I’m glad they took it this far actually because I didn’t like the way the site was going long before this but there weren’t any decent alternatives that I was aware of. My addiction kept me there, but this has made it pretty easy to leave with the glances back just being curiosity about whether the whole thing is on fire or becoming a steaming pile of shit.

      • @SheeEttin
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        142 years ago

        It’s not just tech companies. It’s any company with greedy owners.

    • Einar
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      122 years ago

      Same curve with Netflix. Pirating went down when they started. They themselves, but all the other Streamers as well have gone so greedy that the good product is no longer supported. Reputation ruined, war with customers ensues.