Reddit CEO tells employees that subreddit blackout “will pass”
www.theverge.com
“We absolutely must ship what we said we would.”

Spez, and Reddit as a whole is basically counting on most subreddits opening back up tomorrow after the 48-hour period.

Really hope that mods can hold out for longer, make them really panic.

  • Serinus@kbin.social
    6·
    2 years ago

    The app owners will work with him to prevent AI training from taking data from the site for free. And any issues the third party apps have doing that will be shared by the official app. They’re not special in that regard. You can’t really have public secrets behind a paywall. It doesn’t really work.

    There are many, many options here that are only being held back by Huffman’s ego. Imagine losing billions in valuation because of personal ego. I bet investors are thrilled.

    • LDRMS@kbin.social
      3·
      2 years ago

      Isn’t it entertaining to watch?!! I’ve gone through a few bags of popcorn over the course of the last few days🍿🍿

    • Xeelee@kbin.social
      2·
      2 years ago

      It’s not just his ego but also his incompetence which has been very apparent for his entire tenure. I really don’t get how they’ve be never managed to find someone who’s up to the job.

      • perkz@kbin.social
        1·
        2 years ago

        Getting info out of an API is generally easier, because it will always give you data in a format that’s easy to parse.
        But all this will probably see more web crawling bots crop up