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[–] [email protected] 186 points 2 years ago (4 children)

the irony of a goddamned CEO calling unpaid volunteers "landed gentry"

[–] [email protected] 60 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] DarthRedLeader 44 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

In the interview, Huffman also praised the cost-cutting by Twitter owner Elon Musk, calling the reduced headcount there an example of how a social media site can be without the massive revenue of a company like Google.

I mean, wtf

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 years ago (1 children)

calling the reduced headcount there an example of how a social media site can be without the massive revenue of a company like Google.

My brother in Christ, you raised the head count

[–] ElectricCattleman 10 points 2 years ago

Right? It's like wikipedia tripling their paid staff, then complaining that they aren't getting enough donations to break even.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 2 years ago (2 children)

He’s doing this on purpose.

He’s repurposing leftist talking points into a pro-corporatist clusterfuck as an attempt at populism. He knows that there are a fair number of people and communities on Reddit that will be overall supportive of these politics.

The idea is to get people thinking, “Yeah, I’ve heard that term before, it’s bad! And yeah, I’ve dealt with power-tripping mods before, so it must be true!” If they haven’t been paying attention to the finer points of the news around this (blackmail claims on C. Selig, gaslighting about 3rd party apps not wanting to work w/ Reddit, etc.), then this may be enough to get some people on Reddit, Inc.’s side. It worked for some people with Trump, for others with Musk, and with Huffman’s recent praise of Musk’s managerial style…

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I don't know if using metaphors where the logical extension of mods being landed gentry is your product being a feudal kingdom, you the king, and the users the peasants is necessarily all that clever of a quote to start spreading around.

[–] DarthRedLeader 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Agreed. The only problem is that I think most people will stop at landed gentry and say, "BAD!" without thinking through the full context like you just did.

[–] Aliendelarge 6 points 2 years ago

Thats exactly what I expect out of a large swath of redditors. All this just to avoid the work of making the official app not suck.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The fact that he keeps making comments at all is so weird to me. Like he is truly terrible at PR. Every time he opens his mouth the situation gets worse for him.

[–] escaped_cruzader 9 points 2 years ago

When a man becomes so rich and his "thing" so popular, he thinks he is smart enough to be an expert in anything all at once

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

Reminds me of SBF's bizarre interview spree right before he got arrested. Or Alex Murdaugh that southern lawyer that killed a bunch of people and stole a bunch of money and thought it would be a good idea to testify in his own trial and got destroyed by cross-examination smh

[–] [email protected] 36 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 years ago

ya my immediate reaction was "wow, how tone deaf." It's pretty clear to me that this clown is just repackaging the same talking points the VCs are using to influence his weak-minded ass.

[–] sirboozebum 10 points 2 years ago

One of these reporters should ask him why he was a moderator of /r/jailbait