He couldn’t “make” anything himself. The programming of (early) Reddit was almost entire done by Aaron Schwarz. Huffman is still lapping up the proceeds from what his former friend (?) created, he himself did jack shit except sit in a high chair and command people.
“First, [a platform] is good to its users, then, it abuses its users to make things better for its business customers; finally, it abuses those business customers to claw back all the value for itself. Then, it dies.”
–Cory Doctorow, speaking at DEFCON31, defining a new term he had coined: enshittification
Funny how Steve never talks about how he could make Reddit better for users, only advertisers
He couldn’t “make” anything himself. The programming of (early) Reddit was almost entire done by Aaron Schwarz. Huffman is still lapping up the proceeds from what his former friend (?) created, he himself did jack shit except sit in a high chair and command people.
Product/project management is different than being a coder
Sure, but he’s still at the helm
“First, [a platform] is good to its users, then, it abuses its users to make things better for its business customers; finally, it abuses those business customers to claw back all the value for itself. Then, it dies.”
–Cory Doctorow, speaking at DEFCON31, defining a new term he had coined: enshittification
(The talk is a bit long, but well worth a watch)
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