#spez — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #spez, aggregated by home.social.
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I feel pity about this guy (peak Reddit-mod stereotype).
Basically, he has to moderate a subreddit full of people who give one shit but not two, no help whatsoever. He falls for a scam and gets booted. Angry, he asks Spez to stand out.
I would have taken the message seriously, but he is too high on his horse.
That's or is the best skit ever.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WU7CrKdlzw
#LiveStream #Stremers #Scam #Reddit #RedditMod #Spez #LiveStreamFail #Video #YouTube
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LMAO, #Reddit removes awards (e.g. Gold) without having a replacement ready.
Musk-level idiocy. Awards were the only thing that ever made me spend any money on Reddit. But... nope. Apparently they don't want money. And at the same time they used financial problems as the reason for putting API behind paywall. WTF?
Why remove a source of income BEFORE having alternative ready? Just how dumb their CEO, Steve Huffman (aka #spez), is?
https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/14ytp7s/reworking_awarding_changes_to_awards_coins_and/
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Hello to our new #mastodon friends that have jumped over from #twitter and #reddit lately.
Enjoy your time here. The real people and communication with real people truly gives an 'early internet' air to the place.
Welcome to the shitshow!
#twexit #twittermigration #redditmigration #redditsucks #fuckuspez #fuckspez #spez #spezsucks #lemmy #fediverse #federated #takebackthenet #takebacktheinternet
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@carnage4life yes. Rich people are dragons. Him admiring the extreme cost cutting highlights it is purely money for #spez and #reddit
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If you’re looking for a quiet little community after leaving Reddit - my instance https://apollo.town is open.
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@OldGodsGames those #spez interviews gave me the cringe face big time
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#Spez acts like he's Logan Roy but he is more of a Kendall.
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#Reddit is only valuable if the people are on it. The recent move by #Spez is to monetize Reddit and make lots of money off user-generated content and the free work of mods. If you don’t want to spend your time making techbro CEOs even wealthier, the solution is pretty simple - migrate elsewhere, preferably to federated alternatives. Here’s a great resource for finding new communities. Bookmark it. Use it.
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While I disagree with u/spez's actions, I understand his perspective. Reddit's most valuable asset is its curated text data for training Large Language Models like ChatGPT. Closing down the API protects that asset. He's likely betting that subreddit moderation will be solved with LLMs so the mods that generated that data are of little concern going forward. There will be only one chance to monetize this data asset.
The reason I disagree with u/spez's actions is because I don't believe this asset belongs to him. I'm sure he's protected from a legal perspective but from a philosophical perspective, when a user writes an idea on an online forum, they don't forfeit ownership of that idea. People who contributed to Reddit even 12 months ago had no idea their thoughts will be monetized and consumed by LLMs. We need laws to protect people's data and to democratize data assets.
I also wish u/spez would just be honest about what he's doing. Telling possibly career ending lies about developers and disregarding the mods that made Reddit is inexcusable. It's clear that Reddit has succeeded despite u/spez's leadership.
#Reddit #RedditBlackout #RedditMigration #Spez #Huffman #SteveHuffman #LargeLanguageModels #LLM #LLMs
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@morebento @dangillmor Hoffman is now threatening my sub of a few hundred thousand users:
Absolute fascist scare tactics, trying to get people to tell on each other and abandon their friends. #redditblackout #reddit #redditstrike #spez
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Myspace fell, Digg fell, Vine fell, Facebook is falling, Meta is failing, heck even the almighty Google empire face planted with Google+. Reddit will fall too, it's just a matter of the execs deciding how soon they want to do it.
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Reddit pirated /r/piracy: Moderator coup by Reddit to force a closed subreddit open
https://www.reddit.com/r/Piracy/comments/14briu5/hey_rpiracy_reddit_admins_demodded_the_captain/
#moderation #tirefire #reddit #policy #spez #- -
#Reddit blackout goes DEFCON 4. In response to the CEO's claim he's going to let communities "vote out bad moderators" the moderators have held their own elections in some of the largest communities the users have spoken: Now only pictures of John Oliver will be allowed in /r/pics and /r/gifs
This is freaking hilarious!
#johnoliver #redditblackout #activism #redditfascism #fuckReddit #spez #pics #gifs #humor #faafo
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CW: Reddit and mention of Musk
On top of being inspired by Musk, I highly suspect #spez also watched #Succession and fancy himself as Brain Cox. #reddit
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#Reddit CEO praises #ElonMusk’s cost-cutting as protests rock platform
Steve #Huffman said in an interview that Elon Musk's cost-cutting at #Twitter was inspiring and that the two have chatted "a handful of times."
"Huffman said he saw Musk’s handling of Twitter, which he purchased last year, as an example for Reddit to follow."
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‘#zuckerberg… has at least learned to express his contempt for his users… in hostile [product] design, rather than public statements’ like #Spez #Facebook #meta #Reddit https://twitter.com/golikehellmachi/status/1669821787344101376
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I owe #SteveHuffman an apology. I have written that he has bad judgement. He does not. He has LOUSY judgement.
Admiring the tactics of a demonstrated incompetent.
Post-Musk Twitter just had to close it Colorado office for not paying the rent for the last 3 months.
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@the_verge While public image damage to #reddit has been done or whatever, the fact mods are opening back up shows that #spez can do whatever. #redditors would be too spineless to allow their ideals affect the status quo.
#redditmods are unpaid workers, they literally have nothing to lose if they are removed. They’d rather rule over a shitty site than risk their power for a better one. -
In other news I’m done following #reddit its dead to me with the news of #spez trippling down. #stevehuffman did me a service to open to real communities and take back my data and privacy. Place importance back on #human #community.
I do feel bad for the mods, and hope the good ones come over to the #fediverse continuing the #redditblackout and help us build something better
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I read years ago that the most successful corporate leaders have high emotional intelligence and often think about the future.
The corporate culture of Reddit is to not think things through. Whether that is in how they handle *people* or lousy software engineering by not adequately testing capitalistic features like their automated site moderation which bans long term good users over mistakes.
#Huffman is a man of average intelligence who got lucky as a young adult with a web site he put up. He isn't a thinker.
He is a less successful copy of Mark Zuckerberg. They are both the Beverly Hillbillies of wealthy CEOs.
#Reddit #RedditAlternatives #RedditBlackout #RedditMigration #Purge #RedditPurge #Moderator #ModeratorPurge #ElonMusk #Twitter #SpaceX #Tesla #Huffman #SteveHuffman #Spez #Facebook #MarkZuckerberg.
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It's not often that I get to point out Internet Monopolies being sharecroppers.
The real dish here is that Reddit was one of the few domains in which the ad-fed #enshittification and #SidamTouch (ad-centric media turns everything to shit, reverse of Midas) wasn't ... overly dominant.
And now courtesy of mismanagement by #spez, #Reddit, #AdvanceMedia, and the Reddit board, #GeneralWebSearch which as been in a death spiral for years is suddenly getting far, far worse.
I've commented multiple times that I rely far more on traditional media (mostly books and magazine articles) these days than the Web. Sites/services such as #SciHub, #LibraryGenesis, and #ZLibrary have been absolutely vital for this, and despite much of the online world getting markedly worse, these are bright spots.
(Internet Archive, Wikipedia / Wikimedia, Project Gutenberg, and a handful of other sites/services are among the other bright spots which happen to operate inside the law, though the fact that useful sites have to violate law says a hell of a lot about how corrupt and societally-failing the law is these days.)
My #ResearchMethods for #ContentDiscovery now are based strongly on library research techniques I'd learned in the 1980s: research topics of interest, find major works and the authors of those works, read those, and if the same names or works keep turning up then find and read those. I'll also make heavy use of podcasts, especially those reviewing books and/or interviewing authors (particularly on academic topics), most notably the #NewBooksNetwork.
This may not lead you to truth, but it will virtually always point you to the foundations of present understanding and orthodoxy.
Truly principled authors will note conflicting / contradictory viewpoints --- #PatrickOphuls is excellent in this regard. Even unprincipled authors will often point out key voices in opposition to them, though usually by trash-talking and belittling them. (I'd found a wonderful example of this in a Reason review on Conway & Oreskes latest book The Big Myth.)
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Hmmm I don't think it was me actually! #Reddit #redditors #spez #Mastodon #kbin #tildes #squabbles #beehaw
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Just thinking back to 2016 when r/thedonald was constantly making its way to the top of reddit for years and none of the team at reddit did anything.
Now with these API changes and devs/users making posts actively complaining about what a bad choice it is and how folks are planning to leave reddit en-masse, you barely hear about them despite the threads being heavily upvoted (usually up to something like 100k+ upvotes - usually 3k is enough to get a thread to the frontpage).
I look back on that shitshow in 2016 with even more pennies dropping.
#reddit #api #apicalypse #thedonald #spez #moderation #admin
