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Remember when the reddit CEO edited a post that was critical of him and then came out and admitted to it? https://www.theverge.com/2016/11/23/13739026/reddit-ce
by cameronfraser 6y ago
Remember when the reddit CEO edited a post that was critical of him and then came out and admitted to it? https://www.theverge.com/2016/11/23/13739026/reddit-ceo-steve-huffman-edit-comments https://www.theverge.com/2016/11/23/13739026/reddit-ceo-stev...
- yjftsjthsd-h 6y agoThat incident was what made me leave Reddit:)
- LeoPanthera 6y agoWhat do you use instead, if anything?
- hckr_news 6y agoNot OP but hackernews has been kind of my alternative. Think I've been spending too much time here as of late..
- warranty 6y agoIt’s frustrating to see people talk about niche subreddits and not mentioning any or talk about leaving reddit and not mention what they replaced it with.
- cameronfraser 6y agoYou don't need to replace reddit with anything. We functioned fine without it most of our lives. It's time better spent doing a hobby or reading a book or even watching soap operas
- yjftsjthsd-h 6y agoNothing, really:\ Unfortunately, the direct competitors (Voat et al.) failed to attract enough content or users to be real competitors outside of very narrow communities/interests; ex. /v/linux existed, but it was basically dead, so there was nothing to go there for. So, I use HN more, browse more news aggregators, and hope the fediverse or something can come to fill the void.
- reedwolf 6y agoHe uses Reddit. Just like everyone else who claims to have left Reddit.
- bzb3 6y agoI left Reddit and I don't use it anymore. Why do you think such thing to be impossible?
- cameronfraser 6y agoBecause they can't do it themselves so they're projecting onto everyone else, as usual.
- catalogia 6y agoThat you have such a perception says more about you than him.
- arminiusreturns 6y agoI do, and I also remember posting about it here and getting a lot of flak for it, and a ton of dismissal of the incident as an issue at all...
- fergie 6y agoGiven the state of r/The_Donald at the time what spez did was kind of funny, and I would like to think that any self respecting HNer would do something similar in that situation.
- luckylion 6y agoIf you think of reddit as a service to the public and not your personal troll site, doing that kind of thing is terrible. It's like the CEO of a utility company shutting down electricity to people they have a private disagreement with. It hurts society if you let that pass (or encourage it), as you now need a competitor to enter the market or you'll have to submit to whatever private wishes the CEO has.
- vertex-four 6y agoReddit is not a utility company - people do not organise their lives through Reddit like they do Facebook etc. It's, at best, a sometimes vaguely informational entertainment site.
- luckylion 6y agoThe same applies to information websites, imho. Of course, in the end Reddit doesn't want to be a utility, it wants to be a cash grab. And it's fine to do whatever if your only goal is to get as much money as possible with no concern for anything else.
- s9w 6y agoYes, surely any superior HN user would downright alter the content of other people and try to sweep it under the rug when it is discovered - simply because he doesn't like those people. That truly is the right thing to do. And it's funny!
- onlydeadheroes 6y agoWhat was the state of r/The_Donald at the time?