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Here it comes - Reddit admins taking over subs (lemmy.intai.tech)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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lemmy.world IS NOT a general discussion area. find another community.

my bad....

-manitcor

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[-] [email protected] 150 points 2 years ago

@manitcor Wtf!! What an asshole CEO

[-] [email protected] 294 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

So far Spez's legacy includes, in no particular order:

Changing other peoples' comments
Starting a war with the 3rd party app devs who made reddit the easily accessible platform it is (browsing reddit on the toilet wasn't nearly as common before the first apps came out, and all of the first ones were 3rd party)
Being a moderator on the jailbait subreddit, a community for sharing sexually suggestive pictures of underage teenage girls
Forcing new moderation teams on communities whose moderation he didn't agree with
Straight up lying about the 3rd party apps and their developers every step of the way

Way to go, Steve Huffman! You had a community of volunteers build your platform for you and now you're taking it all away from them. I'm sure this won't backfire.

[-] [email protected] 62 points 2 years ago

I posted this previously elsewhere.

The statement from r/watchredditdie when they closed the sub really put things in perspective for me.

Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian have gone so far as to renege on their promise of listing Aaron Swartz among Reddit, Inc’s founders. Such an egregious breach of contract - only performed once their agreed-upon co-founder no longer walked the earth - could only be carried out by immoral individuals acting in fundamental bad faith. In this way and so many others, Reddit is dead.