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.
It's really a shame that everything good and valuable in the world has to be boiled down to a fucking dollar sign..
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.
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.
What a choad.
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.
Imagine justifying to yourself the idea that you own the contents of other peoples' conversations.
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."
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.
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.
I'm curious as to how much money Reddit are spending on their attempts to change the narrative with articles like this.
Probably one of the reasons why they are not profitable. PR costs.
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.
Did you just censor the word douche?
Ayyyyye don't at me.
...yes. Yes I did.
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.
The man is foreshadowing his own downfall...
With bigger subs, this strategy may actually work. A lot of Redditors just want to scroll, and they want their content. They don't care how it gets there.
Yeah I'm seeing that a lot. Floods of comments about how dumb the blackout was and that they just want to browse Reddit. I know r/SquaredCircle pledged to go dark indefinitely and there was a lot of outrage about it. I'll be very interested to see if it comes back as that was a sizeable subreddit
I've read that, at times in the past, Reddit has used bots or plants in comment threads to stear the conversation. It makes me wonder if any of that is happening now. I'm not much of a conspiracy theorist, but at this point I have very little trust in the Reddit staff.
The new spez company strategy will work because it has been tried and tested in many dictatorships in human history. The elites and workers (mods) in institutions (subs) critical to the state (company) regularly need to be purged of dissenters (protesters) to signal the strength of the dictator and make a coup (change in leadership) seem impossible. This lets those who are against the current course of the state lose their will to fight and pursue other avenues like flight (why I‘m here). It also gives a feeling of safety to those who don‘t care or support, since they need to see less of us dissenters.
Though, in the long run (and I mean many years), I think it will backfire. People like to read all kinds of comments, even those like mine though they are often cynical/paranoid mess. So without dissenters, it becomes a sludge of sameness that appeals only to the most boring people. Hopefully leading to a growth of decentralised platforms like this that could eventually surpass all corporate social media.
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.
Yeah, if he really believes that, where's the campaign for CEO?
Spez: update polls set upvotes=99999 where subreddit="/r/jailbait"
Also spez: my people have once again elected me King!
He is trying to divide users by claiming that a nebulous group is controlling the rest against their will. Classic protest mitigation tactic
If they say their biggest portion of revenue comes from the ads they serve on the official platform then why block the option for devs to serve ads and give the revenue or profit share from it.
Huffman makes no sense in any way, it’s like he’s playing volleyball with himself and arguing against his own points. Devs are wanting to pay for the api but they have been given an untenable timeline and outrageous costs.
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.
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.
I've used Relay for over a decade. That app is reddit to me. I however do find the official app unusable.
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.
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.
The official Reddit app is unusable. Anyone who says otherwise is brainwaished into believing their phone showing an ad every 5 seconds is normal.
Reddit in particular has very little besides it's massive numbers to actually keep users on their platform. I don't use Twitter or Facebook anymore, but at least with those platforms there would be specific celebrity accounts or friends and family that would provide a reason to stay.
Because reddit was so focused on anonymity, you didn't need the "celebrity" accounts to move platforms to make the alternatives feel viable. Even with just a small portion of users moving here it feels completely natural.