“fuck u/spez” means absolutely nothing to anyone who isn’t familiar with Reddit, it’s just noise.

“FIRE STEVE HUFFMAN” is a clear, actionable statement that has a clear target and goal and actually has meaning to people who don’t know what Reddit is (like say, a potential shareholder or investor)

Idk where to put this since r/savethirdpartyapps got banned so post this wherever will get noise if you agree

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[+] 78 points 3 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (20 children)
  • [–] 41 points 3 years ago* (15 children)

    Ellen Pao was actually right though. The attacks on her came from the far right and redditors lapped that shit up because reddit was (and still is) a misogynistic shithole. Her biggest crime was.... Closing /r/fatpeoplehate.

    If she'd stayed on Reddit wouldn't have helped qanon, wouldn't have helped cause theredpill movement, wouldn't have caused the_donald, wouldn't have caused a shit load of bad things.

    Comparing Huffman to her is absurd. Huffman is a far right prepper. She is as far as I can tell a pretty well-meaning liberal, as far as tech CEOs go anyway, which is unusual given that the vast majority of CEOs in tech them are far right crypto bro libertarian fuckheads.

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  • [–] -3 points 3 years ago (5 children)

    Misogynistic shithole my ass. There's some misogynists there, but my experience of Reddit was that it was progressive and feminist to an extent rivalling Tumblr.

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  • [–] 26 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    Depends a lot on which subreddits you frequented. Some subreddits were alright, but many of the largest ones would frequently have uncontested ableism and transphobia.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    Yeah, a good part of that was because I stayed out of the right-wing cesspits, while taking far too long to leave the left-wing ones, so most of the cess I got was left cess.

    The only exception was PCM (joined when it was merely right-leaning and not particularly PC, rather than the outright hive of scum and villainy it became), and there, it was far from progressive.

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  • [–] -1 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    What does misogyny have to do with disabled or trans people? Other than the fact that around 1/2 are women?

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    The comment above mentioned progressivism in general

    my experience of Reddit was that it was progressive and feminist to an extent rivalling Tumblr

    Since you're asking, I find that blatant transphobia also tends to go hand in hand with some sort of sexism, but that's an unrelated point.

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  • [+] -22 points 3 years ago (8 children)

    The crime was turning up the censorship. Saying mean things should absolutely be allowed.

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  • [–] 18 points 3 years ago* (6 children)

    "Censorship" lol, cry harder.
    Her platform, her rules. Don't like it? Leave. This ain't a government, you have no free speech rights here or anywhere else on the internet, don't like how a site operates/what a site allows? Then leave.

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  • [–] -5 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    That's what people are doing now. There weren't alternatives then. And your attitude is unjustified.

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  • [+] -13 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Progressive censors are just as bad as their right-wing counterparts, but live in a delusional world in which whatever they do is right because they're the ones that do it.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    Did I say anything about liking their stances? No. They're a private company though. They can do as they fucking please.

    In fact the only way to force them to not censor anyone is to eliminate their (the owners) first amendment rights. That's why private companies are not beholden to it. Unfortunately this concept is foreign to right wing nuts.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago

    Reddit will never be super happy and wonderful again. People's faith in the brand has been pretty much shattered at this point. I have no intention of going back there whatever they do at this point. I think a lot of people who have left feel that way.

    I'm on Lemmy now. It's way better. I'm over Reddit.

    I think the only real strategy the new owners can follow at this point is to gradually turn it into an edgier version of Facebook and fill it full of people who've never actually used Reddit before and have no idea what it was like before Huffman ruined it.

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