oh, fuck that guy
this post was submitted on 16 Jun 2023
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Of course he thinks Elon is doing a good job...
Imagine looking at the chaos of Twitter and thinking “wow, that’s a great idea. I need to do the same”
Twitter is seeing declines in usage and has quickly fallen from its position of having an outsized place in the social conversation to a position of being a train wreck everyone is enjoying watching.
Imagine thinking that, then saying that out loud before an IPO.
Actual quote from u/spez leading up to the IPO: “we are not profitable"
My personal thoughts are that anyone who thinks hivhly of what Elon Musk has done to Twitter is highly suspect and probably best avoided.
Fuck u/spez
One authoritarian agreeing with another.
He's realized that glomming onto Elmo is the only way he's going to get friends who can help.
Can’t make this shit up
Reddit Premium users will have a blue checkmark, coming soon! And for a new low low price of $8/mo
He's just trolling us and speedrunning the PR meltdown category at this point, isn't he?
How long now until reddit stops paying rent, gets evicted, and fires all their employees because they get told to work in an office they were evicted from and you can't work from home?
I'm not sure we should be so quick to alienate people who still use reddit. They may simply be overwhelmed about starting again on a (better) platform.
Lemmy at it's core philosophies make it much better for communities and individuals to be freer. We just need to go through some growing pains at the moment.
I agree that the idea of federated Reddit (Lemmy/Kbin) is better but the user experience is currently not better.
Granted, that’s a “newness” problem that should get easier with time but to jump from relatively straightforward Reddit to a more complicated federated system is a leap in complexity a lot of people do not want to deal with.
The real driver for change will be when there isn’t anything interesting to look at or the entire thing is overrun with boys, ads, and trolls. The loss of mods might actually be the eventual downfall of Reddit.
I agree. I’m trying both Lemmy and kbin (although Lemmy makes it much easier to find communities cross servers), but the lack of polished apps for either service can be off putting to the standard Reddit users. Heck, even I’m a bit taken back.
Mastodon was so much further along because it had so much time to be it’s own thing and grow naturally. The threadiverse is being thrust into high gear and it wasn’t nearly as ready for it.
I like Threadiverse. Good one.
I find it funny how Twitter got many people to move to federated Mastodon and inspired Reddit owner also is getting people to move to a federated instance. More power to the people. :)
That says it all.
Fuck this moron.
He has learned that you can do whatever the fuck you want to a platform that's hit critical mass
He saw it as an example to follow but also insisted days ago none of this was inspired by Twitter... You'd have to be an idiot to trust this guy.
with him at the helm i’ll never use reddit again. even if apollo made a deal to use the api I wouldn’t go near reddit until there is a change of leadership. It’s a democracy with a dictator at the helm.
Agreed, just need an app like Apollo now
The CEO of a company that burned a ton of goodwill in a record amount of time praises the CEO of another company who did about the same 🤷♂️
The guy whose fortune comes from using other people's content to attract other people's eyeballs to yet other people's ads is praising the cost cutting strategies of a guy that has just decided he shouldn't need to go honour contracts or pay rent.
Watch out, Reddit staff. Your boss is telling you what's coming next.
Elon was ordered to buy the site by a judge after a failed scheme to use the acquisition as a pretense to expose the “bot problem” on the platform. Maybe don’t base your company strategy on the guy who is paying down a massive 44b loan because he wanted to meme the price of his fake buyout that blew up in his face
Even if he actually thought that, why the fuck would you say that right now when a large amount of your community is revolting against you? Comments like these are only further destabilizing a bad situation. If I was on the board, and even if I fully supported the changes, I would have him removed for adding more fuel to the fire.
Imagine. My. Surprise.
And there it is lol. I don't think it's too surprising that one person who was weak-minded and spineless, would echo the actions and sentiments of another person who was also weak-minded and spineless.