• NewEnglandRedshirt@lemmy.world
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    History teacher here. I find it incredibly ironic that a guy whose entire livelihood depends on unpaid workers to generate profits for him while he sits on his porch drinking sweet tea comfortable desk chair describes those workers as the “landed gentry.”

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    If you’re a politician or a business owner, you are accountable to your constituents. So a politician needs to be elected, and a business owner can be fired by its shareholders,” he said.

    Someone get this man a hearing aid, because he’s gone completely tone deaf.

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    Maybe if they introduced this in good faith months ago people would think it’s a good idea. They reason now is just power hungry admins trying to get their way. Fuck this guy so much.

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      I agree because this is actually quite nice to have the ability to vote out power tripping moderators. But they’re only introducing it now because they’re getting desperate. What a waste. This CEO is an idiot.

      Well it’s not like I’m going back anyway since I got perma banned 2 days ago and nuked my account.

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      Honestly, the core point made originally, and that he stated again in this article, makes perfect sense to me: it costs money to run Reddit, which they pay for with ads, and the third party apps make the content available without ads or with ads that go to the app developers. It’s completely reasonable that Reddit would want to get paid for people using their content.

      But the way they rolled it out, the slandering of one of the developers, the ridiculously short time for it, the removal of NSFW content, and especially the draconian prices are just unacceptable.

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      I’m curious as to how much money Reddit are spending on their attempts to change the narrative with articles like this.

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          This is the thing that gets me. I’m fine if Reddit wants to diversify revenue, or ask developers to pay a fair share. But the callous disregard for developers, users, moderators, and communities they built is beyond the pale. I don’t know how someone can look at the timeline of events and how Reddit has handled this and think, “this is a company that deserves my money”. Huffman’s comments in the press alone, leaked or not, make him look like a giant d*uche canoe. The moment my saved posts are transferred out I’m gone.

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    He is trying to divide users by claiming that a nebulous group is controlling the rest against their will. Classic protest mitigation tactic

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    Huffman said, however, that he’d like some form of revenue-sharing.

    “I would like subreddits to be able to be businesses if they choose,” he said, adding that’s “another conversation, but I think that’s the next frontier of Reddit.”

    Reddit is only going to get worse. I’m glad I jumped ship when I did.

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      Another prediction;

      Moderator slots will be up for sale at some point as businesses buy them and start pushing their products/services more aggressively.

      “normal” moderators who agree will get a small % of the profits.

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        a small % of the profits
        But since Reddit isn’t profitable, that means profits are actually negative and they’ll have to pay. If they are profitable, no way there’s any sort of profit sharing. At best, a discounted reddit t-shirt that they’ll be warned against wearing in public due to the additional anti-user policies they’ll be putting in place.

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    Oh, they are gonna remove admins by having their own sub vote them out “democratically”. I guess thats better PR than doing it themselves? Sounds like a feature that could easily be misused too, if they do it wrong.

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    It would be interesting to see what happens if some of the 3rd-party devs that are being screwed over by spez make some lemmy/kbin apps that are superior to the reddit app.

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    So these votes are going to be done by the people who haven’t left reddit in protest and if those of us who have left in protest come back to vote in the polls, reddit will claim that outsiders are brigading the votes so the sub will be reopened. There is no situation where a community vote to remain closed will be respected by the site owners.

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    He’s about two sentences away from saying the quiet part out loud. If he sees the mods as landed gentry how does he see the average redditor? the average admin team member? The average spez?

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    Let’s be honest.

    A lot of us left because we saw the writing on the wall, even if we were a bit ambiguous on the exact details.

    Enshittification to the max and as fast as possible.

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      Yep. It’s not that Reddit is unusable in the official app, it’s that it’s a sign of more shit to come. I don’t use other social media for a reason, Reddit doesn’t have the command over my life that they think they do.

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        I’ve used Relay for over a decade. That app is reddit to me. I however do find the official app unusable.

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          I used rif. I can’t stand the official app. I get that reddit has to make money to survive, like any company, but in the process of chasing that profit you chase away a good chunk of your site you’re not gonna be profitable. Also I can’t stand the way Spez is saying we’re a community while trying to dictate changes the community absolutely hates and then attacking those leaving.

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            I’m hoping RIF’s developer ports it to work with fediverse instances, or even better makes connecting to them the default so all of RIF’s users join the fediverse.

            Also so I can browse kbin with RIF.

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    Now he’s going to let users vote out powermods!? What happened when his buddies like gallowboob get voted out? This is going to be hilarious.

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    Huffman said in an interview that he plans to institute rules changes that would allow Reddit users to vote out moderators who have overseen the protest, comparing them to a “landed gentry.”

    Wait, what? Huffman himself is “landed gentry”; moderators are among those who have to do the actual work.