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Reddit CEO Steve Huffman: 'It's time we grow up and behave like an adult company' (www.npr.org)
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Disappointed that NPR didn't elaborate more on how Huffman truly fucked over Christian Selig.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Human beings talk about interesting things on Reddit. 'We are not in the business of giving that away for free'

"But we are in the business of reselling the content that those human beings provide, without compensating them at all, or even considering any of their complaints about how we manage the site they speak on."

Fuck this guy seven new assholes.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That line stuck out at me. It's bizarrely out of touch. What does Reddit actually produce itself? A shit-tier website (new) and an even shittier-tier app? Everything of value on the site was made by volunteers.

I guess this is the danger of being openly helpful on the internet. At any time your generosity could be snatched and monetized without even so much as a "fuck you, thank me"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Been reading Noam Chomsky, and the theme of democratic movements being quelled, one might say mysteriously, is a common global theme. Reddit was that social democracy for a time.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

No, it wasn't.

It is, and has always been, a feudal monarchy, if you want to define it's political structure.

You and I are the peasants, above us are the moderators acting on behalf of the local Lord Subreddit Owner, which serve at the whim of The Monarchs of the corporation, with His Majesty the CEO only being rained in sliiiiightly by the clerics of the venture capital Church.

Please elaborate on how you see this in any way as a social democracy.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And, of course, there are the unpaid moderators. He doesn't seem concerned at all that they're "giving it away for free". The experienced power-mods are the ones in the position to put a serious hurting on spez, and I hope they take the opportunity to do so.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

They won't. They're drunk on imagined power and will do whatever the platform asks to keep it.

[–] PixxlMan 2 points 1 year ago

That's exactly why 8000 subs closed to protest! Wait...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, I think the power trip of moderating some subreddit with millions of members is very seductive. Sadly, it seems very seductive to exactly the people I would not want moderating, but I'm sure ousting conscientious moderators for puppet dictators will alleviate this situation in the future of Reddit.

Right? RIGHT?!

[–] rbhfd 1 points 1 year ago

The major problem—one of the major problems, for there are several—one of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them. To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it. To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

  • Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm not sure seven is enough, honestly.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

You know what's better than seven new assholes? Eight new assholes.