• Davel23@kbin.social
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    Lol at the sign-language interpreter, like Reddit gives half a shit about accessibility now.

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      Sign language yes, real time captions no. Only whatever live transcription crap your phone or computer could do

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    I recognize that guy. He was a moderator of the r/jailbait subreddit for the many, many years it was hosted on Reddit.com.

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          Your source admits Spez was a jailbait mod. MAYBE he was made one without knowing, but he DEFINITELY could have removed himself and didn’t.

          Spez was a jailbait mod for years. That’s a fact.

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            Maybe he was made one without him knowing…

            He could have removed himself immediately upon noticing…

            Source for the fact he noticed?

            Ewww I’m defending Spez

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              As an engineer myself: if I was ceo of my own social media company, I’d periodically go through my account at a fine-grained level and see if there was anything weird going on. Hell, I’d probably use some internal APIs and webhooks or whatever to track and categorize my profile’s interaction with the network at large.

              I find it unlikely that he had no idea about this.

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    Of the three people involved in Reddit’s creation, he was the most useless and antithetical to reddit’s greater vision.

    Swartz was a far better person.

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        That goes for most sub culture. A new thing pops up, comics, tabletops, internet thing. It slowly gets popular. At it’s zenith some wise guy realize he can make a quick buck out of it, wrestles control over it. more people show up less informed but still keen to try it out. Leaves the old guards behind.

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      They did buy a superior client. Alien Blue it was called. Then internal politics killed it. Even today Alien Blue would still be a better experience, without any updates in the last five years.

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      This is what always got to me that I don’t think people focus on enough. It’s such an anti-consumer pattern. Instead of improving the official reddit app, or buying out a third party one, they simply shot the competition in the knees.

      If you want everyone on the official app, be competitive and invest into making it not suck donkey balls. Obviously that’s far too much work.

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      All that costs time, money and resources whereas flatput lying and fucking people over is cheap. You calculate how much you’ll lose, see that it’s enormously bad qualitatively but you won’t lose too many visitors because most people don’t give a fuck so you go with it.

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      There are a hundred different ways they could have reached a compromise on third party app support if it was just about API limits. They killed it because they want to gather mobile app telemetry like everyone else does these days.

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        Telemetry is telling them their app sucks and that people try it x period of time and then uninstall it.

        It is so terrible that I log into reddit once a week on my pc.

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      That’s the thing. I get that people using the service on a third party client and not seeing ads is hurting their bottom line as they use bandwidth and not make money. But just banning them outright is a shit move. Ideally they would’ve made it part of Reddit Premium to make that a bit more worthwhile.

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      You know, I realize that some people run a dictatorship and only want absolute obedience, I totally get that, that’s totally a gettable thing for me, that’s not weird at all.

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    I’m sure their next “Reddit Event” will not have a real time chat.

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    Aww, you hurt their delicate fee-fees! How mean! /s

    Also, lol at that pathetic sycophant’s reply below your comment. Dude needs to stop twerking for spez.

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      Who is that comment even aimed at? Being that it is right under OP’s comment in (what I presume to be) a busy chat, I doubt it is a response to OP.

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      I doubt they have delicate fee fees or feel feels or whatever. I don’t care whether they even care that I was banned, all I know is my ban from Reddit is a badge of honor and proves I can get under other people’s skin. You always know you’re telling the truth when it makes people angry enough to ban you.

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    Reddit has become Facebook with a different management team. These people are motivated by profit and that’s the only way their decisions make any kind of sense. Whenever we mix the profit motive with a service for people, the people will always play second fiddle. It’s why mixing profit with healthcare is inhumane and it’s what’s so great about Wikipedia.

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      i’m of another notion, i think its more about controlling public space for discourse itself than it is about profit… they want to sever access to whatever they might consider subversive dialogue and control the next generation’s access to it.

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          $3 dollar words make it seem like it’s real complicated. plain greed and middle management stunts

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        Occam’s Razor.

        The only thing that matters is profits. Those profits come from advertising. The businesses doing the advertising do not want their brands associated with things that are controversial or offensive to the general public.

        Therefore Reddit is bending to their will.

        Because profits.

        No conspiracy necessary.

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    So…what exactly was this event? Was it like a AMA? Or was it like one of those corporate circle jerk things where everyone says what they are supposed to say?

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      If I’m guessing correctly, it’s a modcon, which makes it even more pathetic for mods to attend an event hosted by the very people who have given them grief this past few months, just so they can feel special with their own exclusive event.

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    Yeah redditors can do that too, it would probably look somewhat like this:
    Come to reddit, we have CEO who’s an idiot but controls everything, a 100% closed API unless you pay exorbitant prices to use it, and we have advertisements everywhere, but WE NEED TO MAKE MONEY. So please come. We also have sociophants and trolls.

    /Steve Huffman

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    We must all remember spez’ has an abnormal love of cats, among his other issues. Like keeping slaves and resource hoarding. https://i.imgur.com/a0F2bW6.png