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Quite a shift from Spez's original "we're not worried, really!" Love or hate reddit, one really has to commend how quickly he's managed to utterly alienate the

• searealist 3y ago
  I don't see any shift. Why would he be worried? They can remove these mods and give the position to a million other people who want it and will do just as good a job.
• soligern 3y ago
  He hasn’t alienated anyone. The vast majority of users don’t really give a shit. Infact I’m kinda glad they’re chasing profits, it’s what any serious company should aim at. My only qualm is they should probably improve their app. It’s like their one job at this point. What even is that video player?
  • dvngnt_ 3y ago
    you can chase profits but execution is key which reddit struggles with as you alluded with their shoddy video player. there are several ways they could have monetized 3rd party apps while not angering the developer community that helped them become popular. I and many long-term redditors would have paid premium to use it but they're burned up so much good will. even chasing profits is dubious. they could have made onlyfans years ago. they could have made a tiktok (they can't), but the CEO lacks vision so anything they do will be late and substandard.
    • natch 3y ago
      I don’t see that developers helped reddit become popular. It was already popular. When due to needing to balance the books you have to end what was indirectly but effectively a river of revenue, of course a few people are going to be upset.
      • dvngnt_ 3y ago
        the first reddit mobile apps were 3rd party apps including alien blue which was then purchased by reddit. mobile makes a majority of their and most consumer sites, so i'd argue they owe their mobile lineage to 3rd party apps because they were there when reddit wasn't
        • natch 3y ago
          It’s a website though.
  • sleepytimetea 3y ago
    "Not alienated anyone" is too strong a statement... he has alienated atleast one person, me, with his arrogance.
  • blovescoffee 3y ago
    Agree. Cutting out (api) users who don’t pay isn’t a bad business model
    • allarm 3y ago
      That’s an absurd oversimplification of the issue.
  • evolve2k 3y ago
    I’m not trusting newly created accounts on this issue. Created 12 days ago.
  • __void 3y ago
    > He hasn’t alienated anyone. The vast majority of users [...] you were not entitled by anyone to speak on behalf of everyone, Mr. Account with twelve days of live > My only qualm while you are worried about the video player, the moderators (who have been working for free for years to at least make the place where you watch your funny videos decent) have been waiting for decades for the tools to be able to moderate, and they have been promised dozens of times (all lies) if you had problems with some power tripping powermods (no one denies they exist) that doesn't mean everyone is like that: have better judgement and measure your words
  • zecg 3y ago
    Really? "Anyone" is obviously false. I was a regular for 16 years, opened a ton of subreddits in the first rush (/r/education was the biggest one) and he alienated me enough to shred my account and stop visiting. I don't hold ill will, it's their site to enshittify, but the value proposition without 3rd party ux is really horrible.
• natch 3y ago
  There was an initial shift to paying more attention to the bottom line. After that I don’t see a shift other than he’s taking care of business as he has a right to do. Doesn’t indicate worry, just action, not that there would be anything wrong with having concerns, aka worry.
• ofslidingfeet 3y ago
  If he makes so-called "powermods" go do something else, that will be a win in my book.