While CEO Steve Huffman may be dismissive of the thousands of subreddits going dark to protest his planned API changes,…

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    1 year ago

    They took insporation from Twitter and we all know how profitable that turned out to be.

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      Yeah this is the really disturbing part imo. Huffman actually saying out loud that he was inspired by musk & twitter et al. What a fucking spoon.

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        He lives in a bubble and he’s certain that following Musk’s example will make him richer. But what he fails to understand is that, while reddit is massive and people are addicted to or reliant on it, if it stops producing high-quality content, it’s going to eventually be replaced by something else. Hopefully, by the fediverse.