Huffman said he saw Musk’s handling of Twitter, which he purchased last year, as an example for Reddit to follow.

The writing is on the wall. Those who are staying on Reddit despite everything u/spez said recently are literally asking to be shit on and will fully deserve it.

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    • The_Pete
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      Imagine thinking that, then saying that out loud before an IPO.

        • The_Pete
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          Well, he has to disclose that anyway before the IPO so w/e, think he’s trying to have two profitable months before the IPO and then it implodes

  • Dick Justice
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    My personal thoughts are that anyone who thinks highly of what Elon Musk has done to Twitter is highly suspect and probably best avoided.

  • @moridinbg
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    The CEO of a company that burned a ton of goodwill in a record amount of time praises the CEO of another company who did about the same 🤷‍♂️

  • @Aeora
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    Can’t make this shit up

  • @FreeThinker
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    Reddit Premium users will have a blue checkmark, coming soon! And for a new low low price of $8/mo

  • 5 Card Draw
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    I’m not sure we should be so quick to alienate people who still use reddit. They may simply be overwhelmed about starting again on a (better) platform.

    Lemmy at it’s core philosophies make it much better for communities and individuals to be freer. We just need to go through some growing pains at the moment.

    • norb
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      I agree that the idea of federated Reddit (Lemmy/Kbin) is better but the user experience is currently not better.

      Granted, that’s a “newness” problem that should get easier with time but to jump from relatively straightforward Reddit to a more complicated federated system is a leap in complexity a lot of people do not want to deal with.

      The real driver for change will be when there isn’t anything interesting to look at or the entire thing is overrun with boys, ads, and trolls. The loss of mods might actually be the eventual downfall of Reddit.

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    • @[email protected]
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      We just need to go through some growing pains

      Initially I read the assertions that Lemmy was implemented so efficiently at face value. But then I hear that the likes of Lemmy.mk was overloaded by the likes of 2500 users or so, and it doesn’t really hold up. I think those growing pains include making it scalable and efficient because it doesn’t sound like it is right now.

  • Singletona
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    One authoritarian agreeing with another.

    He’s realized that glomming onto Elmo is the only way he’s going to get friends who can help.

  • @Darren
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    And there it is lol. I don’t think it’s too surprising that one person who was weak-minded and spineless, would echo the actions and sentiments of another person who was also weak-minded and spineless.

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    with him at the helm i’ll never use reddit again. even if apollo made a deal to use the api I wouldn’t go near reddit until there is a change of leadership. It’s a democracy with a dictator at the helm.

  • nevernevermore
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    He has learned that you can do whatever the fuck you want to a platform that’s hit critical mass

    • The_Pete
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      Not if you want to make money. Twitter is losing bucket loads of money without a real plan to change that and it sounds like in the process they are taking on an extraordinary amount of technical debt.

      Steve doesn’t have nearly as much money to throw at reddit as musk does for Twitter either.

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    Even if he actually thought that, why the fuck would you say that right now when a large amount of your community is revolting against you? Comments like these are only further destabilizing a bad situation. If I was on the board, and even if I fully supported the changes, I would have him removed for adding more fuel to the fire.

    • AlmightySnoo 🐢🇮🇱🇺🇦OP
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      The article mentions him and Elon having chatted a handful of times. I guess he’s probably sucking up to Elon as he thinks he might be able to secure some cash from him in the form of an investment or a merger with Twitter.

      • @MetricExpansion
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        It could be a suck-up investment play. The problem with hoping a narc like Elon invests in you is that the second you’re not useful to them, they will dispense with you like a dirty cumsock. See: all the people who tried to suck up to Donald Trump and ended up with damaged reputations.

        Reddit seems to be in a bad way financially. Their investors have written them down. They’re still making losses. They’re laying people off. They’re implementing these absurd API changes. They need to make a lot of changes to monetize something that’s hard to monetize, and I think that this is a sign of much worse things to come for them and their users. Despite their success at online relevancy, they’re actually a bad business and I wouldn’t be surprised if at some point they got bought out by private equity and picked apart.

        The sad part is that it didn’t need to be this way. I think in trying to get hyper-growth and relevancy among normies, they ended up investing too much into areas that would help them do that. If they had stayed content to remind a simple forum, I think they could have been a sustainable business. But the VCs demand to have a unicorn, I guess.