“fuck u/spez” means absolutely nothing to anyone who isn’t familiar with Reddit, it’s just noise.
“FIRE STEVE HUFFMAN” is a clear, actionable statement that has a clear target and goal and actually has meaning to people who don’t know what Reddit is (like say, a potential shareholder or investor)
Idk where to put this since r/savethirdpartyapps got banned so post this wherever will get noise if you agree
We’ve been down this road before
Remember when Ellen Pao was the worst thing to ever happen to the world and was killing reddit with her… rules against revenge porn and blatant hate boards?
Remember how reddit “capitulated” and did what the community wanted and got rid of her? Hmm, who was it they replaced her with?
Reddit is preparing for an IPO and likely a buyout. The absolute best way the new owners can “win” is to solve all problems by getting rid of the current evil CEO, maybe rolling back one of the dozens of horrifically bad policy changes, and then calling it a win. Huffman gets a golden parachute and reddit is super happy and wonderful again.
If you are
naiveconfident enough that a call for action will be listened to: Call for action regarding policies, not figureheads.Ellen Pao was actually right though. The attacks on her came from the far right and redditors lapped that shit up because reddit was (and still is) a misogynistic shithole. Her biggest crime was… Closing /r/fatpeoplehate.
If she’d stayed on Reddit wouldn’t have helped qanon, wouldn’t have helped cause theredpill movement, wouldn’t have caused the_donald, wouldn’t have caused a shit load of bad things.
Comparing Huffman to her is absurd. Huffman is a far right prepper. She is as far as I can tell a pretty well-meaning liberal, as far as tech CEOs go anyway, which is unusual given that the vast majority of CEOs in tech them are far right crypto bro libertarian fuckheads.
Misogynistic shithole my ass. There’s some misogynists there, but my experience of Reddit was that it was progressive and feminist to an extent rivalling Tumblr.
Depends a lot on which subreddits you frequented. Some subreddits were alright, but many of the largest ones would frequently have uncontested ableism and transphobia.
Yeah, a good part of that was because I stayed out of the right-wing cesspits, while taking far too long to leave the left-wing ones, so most of the cess I got was left cess.
The only exception was PCM (joined when it was merely right-leaning and not particularly PC, rather than the outright hive of scum and villainy it became), and there, it was far from progressive.
What does misogyny have to do with disabled or trans people? Other than the fact that around 1/2 are women?
The comment above mentioned progressivism in general
Since you’re asking, I find that blatant transphobia also tends to go hand in hand with some sort of sexism, but that’s an unrelated point.
Sorry, I skipped the progressivism part.
The crime was turning up the censorship. Saying mean things should absolutely be allowed.
“Censorship” lol, cry harder.
Her platform, her rules. Don’t like it? Leave. This ain’t a government, you have no free speech rights here or anywhere else on the internet, don’t like how a site operates/what a site allows? Then leave.
That’s what people are doing now. There weren’t alternatives then. And your attitude is unjustified.
Well, there was and still is 4chan. You can say anything over there, it’s a place full of freedom and rainbows.
Progressive censors are just as bad as their right-wing counterparts, but live in a delusional world in which whatever they do is right because they’re the ones that do it.
Did I say anything about liking their stances? No. They’re a private company though. They can do as they fucking please.
In fact the only way to force them to not censor anyone is to eliminate their (the owners) first amendment rights. That’s why private companies are not beholden to it. Unfortunately this concept is foreign to right wing nuts.
Yup. They can’t imagine a world where the censorship is inevitably flipped back on them because they feel they have the ultimate moral high ground.
I did. I haven’t logged into my reddit account in 8 fucking years.
Hate communities are bad
Honestly I think the best course of action is just to let them stew. We should be rallying for spez to make worse decisions and more often. Let nature take its course.
I agree, I think that as he gets older and continues to lose faculties while not his ego, he’s going to out his antics more and more.
Reddit will never be super happy and wonderful again. People’s faith in the brand has been pretty much shattered at this point. I have no intention of going back there whatever they do at this point. I think a lot of people who have left feel that way.
I’m on Lemmy now. It’s way better. I’m over Reddit.
I think the only real strategy the new owners can follow at this point is to gradually turn it into an edgier version of Facebook and fill it full of people who’ve never actually used Reddit before and have no idea what it was like before Huffman ruined it.
I clicked into this thread hoping to see this take - thank you!