oh fuck yoooooou… with that bullshit, using mature as a way to shame people. WE FUCKING MADE YOU.
Is NYT paid to totally distort the truth like they did in that article?
While New York times is far better than the New York Post. And the Washington Post is far better than Washington times. They are all for profit ventures owned by thieving wealthy capitalists. They’ve always pushed their own perception and agenda. Whether or not we ever realized it. And that agenda has never been about sustainability, fairness, or accuracy. It’s always been this way to one extent or another. It’s just that the consolidation of ownership etc as made the market much less competitive and accountable.
NYT: manufacturing consent since before you were born, and after you die
The day after moderators closed down hundreds of Reddit forums…
Hundreds? I mean, I guess that’s true, if you say 88 hundreds… Almost 90 hundreds.
I’m not even to the interview, and I’m already having trouble swallowing this article.
Edit: I guess “Spez talks to NY Times” was hyperbole… There’s no interview, lol
So, he’s really sticking to this claim that it costs Reddit to send API info. Wow. I guess your average casual user will probably buy that.
Technically speaking, that data has some cost; just that Reddit’s actual cost to serve that data is far lower than what they’re trying to charge Third Parties.
It also has the opportinity cost of the viewer not getting first party ads or giving tracking data. Even with these things, though, it’s still nowhere near what they’re charging.
Also, fuck ads and tracking data.
As I’ve said before, unrealized capital is not a cost.
Unless you run a shitty business.
They also had a revenue and/or profit sharing agreement with one of the bigger Android apps up until a little bit after Huffman took over as CEO. So it’s not like they couldn’t have had a slice of the pie anyways.
Spez has 2000 employees and nobody that can run a server.
According to his comments, he paying for server time. If he is not lying (and lying would also be making material false statements ahead of an IPO - even rich people go to jail for stealing from rich people) he a spending $10 million per year for just the Apollo traffic. That means he is paying 100s of millions per year total.
For that spend a decent CEO would bring that in house.
Let’s not pretend to believe that the price hike is meant solely to cover the actual costs. My opinion is that this is a veiled attempt to restrict who’s allowed to use the API by setting the price unreasonably high, where only large corporations, who profit from scraping reddit’s content, can afford it. Big Data and AI research in particular.
It looks like they’re sending everything, including api calls through Fastly as an edge service with their actual boxes being hosted with Amazon services. It’d be more likely they’re paying 10m a year to host the whole site, depending on how much Fastly is charging them for traffic.
Good thing he’s not known for being a liar.
Like the telecoms selling data caps
… and they totally omitted Aaron Swartz as a founder.
The actions of Reddit the last few years (and especially the last few months) have probably increasingly caused Aaron to spin in his grave so much that he could power Los Angeles and San Francisco both with his beyond-the-grave outrage if anyone cared to harness that energy source.
Also a meh article, with spelling and grammatical errors (deliberate?) and omitting even simple details.
Noticed that, too, did ya?
Nm, upvoted after checking user posts.
Not even mentioning Schwartz was a huge indicator that this is a bullshit paid-for story from Reddit/Spez. Absolutely NOBODY who would bring up the founding of Reddit without mentioning Schwartz unless they were paid not to. This is a hack piece from a paid shill.
NYT don’t do “paid” stories.
However, the journalism is superficial (lazy) and seems to skim across the surface. This was written by someone who doesn’t understand the tech – so they interviewed someone pro (Spez) and someone con (the super mod) – did some ping pong with quotes and TADA! An article!
Reporter: To sum up, this expert representing the major Meteorological associations says it is currently raining. And this expert from the “Crack Pot Society” says it isn’t. I have a window right next to me and…both sides make good points so you’ll have to decide for yourself.
Did anyone count the amount of “Mr. Huffman”'s in the article?
Oh I can explain this one. I’ve been reading the NYT for a while, this is how they refer to everyone. You’ll see Mr. Trump, Mr. Biden, Mr. McCarthy. In general it’s always like this.
Yep. NYT style guide. All people are “Mr” or “Ms”
Typical AP style guide omits the title except for the first reference to a doctor, or if it’s the president.
Thanks for sharing with us!
They really tryna blame “the fappening” on Reddit though
Never thought of Reddit as a “social media” site. It sounds like he’s trying to turn it into Facebook, bloated and mainly used for corporate business and your grandma.
The definition of social media:
Social media are interactive technologies that facilitate the creation and sharing of information, ideas, interests, and other forms of expression through virtual communities and networks.
The term is more broad that what you are thinking of. Reddit is honestly closer to what a social media site is, since it’s a true form of sharing information. Facebook and Twitter are just echo chambers of people shouting into a void.
This week I realized that I’m reading these “about Reddit” stories more as a spectator than an involved party anymore. I’ve moved on. Feels good not to care enough to care.
The nice thing about Reddit’s self-defeating move is we don’t have to do anything about it. It’s self-defeating.
I’m starting to get there too as of yesterday and yes it is a much nicer feeling
Well there’s the problem
Reddit, which is based in San Francisco, has in recent years tried to turn from a rough-and-tumble internet message board into a full-fledged social media business by adding executives and strengthening its advertising capabilities.
The financial shit heads weasel their way into everything and fuck it up on us. This is what I like about this setup here, from the ground up it doesn’t seem like it can be bought our and IPO’d.
Everything has to be increasingly profitable and it’s maddening.
Yeah, I don’t want to see humanity keep on going like this. The profit incentive in some ways can increase the speed at which something develops, but it feels like we’re outgrowing it now that we have so many good communication/collaboration tools.
The profit squeeze on everything feels like it does more harm than good.
I know. Like why can’t “we have enough revenue to operate the business” be good enough?
It’s either go big and go broke for these clowns.
Because of greed. Not even just the founders, they could even be benevolent, but someone from the competition can just get greedy and attempt a buyout or try to cripple you by becoming bigger and constantly harassing your company. We have to bring back antitrust punishments and ban megamergers that have been running rampant.
not wholesale. any one of them could spin up an instance and try to monetize it. But they would never be able to shut the rest down or stop them.
And if it got really spammy, we can just block that instance.
I once worked for a company that had a chief imagination officer. And yes, their business card said CIO.
It’s OT but I‘ve sent you a message a few days ago. Can you take a look and tell me wether you received it or not? Thank you!
They must have been imagining they were important.
They sure left out a ton. Nothing about accessibility etc
And framed it as just a few dozen moderators who protested. Nothing the user polls, etc. He notes that the users have “outsized power” over the site. Bitch, the users are the site.
Right? The framing is shite, that’s exactly it. Frustrating.
People who have NYT accounts should post rebuttals adding all the shit they didnt
The mods/users need to write a counter-editorial and petition to get the NYT to publish it.
What a disgusting article. I wonder how much spez paid for it, or if the author (apparently a ‘longtime Redditor’) had his account threatened. That, or maybe he’s just so used to corporate bootlicking that his first response to seeing a distressed billionaire was to start lapping at his soles.
Also, this puff piece reeks of arrogance. We fucking made that website what it was, and now this pathetic weasel thinks he no longer needs us? And there’s dumbasses on Reddit who defend this shit???
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I wish I had your faith in humanity, but I do believe that a lot of these idiots genuinely believe that spez is fighting against the ‘evil powermods’ to ‘protect the rights of the users’.
Spez, or some other party involved in the financialization of Reddit and has an incentive to tilt opinion maybe. It’s all the kind of things that seem to happen.
I have seen the kind of thing you’re talking about plenty of times of Reddit and twitter in the past. Where users are shitting on a company, then all of these weird apologetic comments start coming out of nowhere, that nowhere near that many normal people would be spouting in defense of a shit move by a shit company.
The lack of negativity and divisiveness right away was noticable on here. The responses all looked much more respectful too.
or if the author (apparently a ‘longtime Redditor’) had his account threatened
Why such an unbelievable theory?
You’d be surprised at how many dicks a ‘power user’ could eat to retain their account.
And there’s dumbasses on Reddit who defend this shit???
You gotta remember that there are tons of casual users (which probably outnumber 3rd party app users, if we’re being honest) that haven’t ever known anything else, and they see all this noise as an interruption to their day-to-day scrolling.
One of the subs I used to frequent most often (r/hockey) was full of users who were pissed that it was blacked out for the final game of the Stanley Cup playoffs, so there was no live thread for the last (and biggest, most important) game of the season, and thought anyone who supported the blackout was just being whiny.
I’ve just accepted that Reddit’s base has shifted, its no longer what I remember it being, and I’m not a part of it.
Then it’s a good thing we moved on.
We had a live thread here, and it was awesome.
I immediately heard alarm bells when I read the title. This dude really said 'users need to let Reddit grow up" in response to this dude’s disgusting behavior.
“GROW UP” says /u/spez, former moderator of /r/jailbait
thats actually a wrong rumour , he was appointed mod of r/jailbait unknowingly , didnt mod jailbait , and anything.
he also wasnt it willingly. it was in a time when reddit was still young and allowed Moderator appointments.
we shouldnt spread lies.
While he was appointed without his knowledge, he/reddit left that sub available for years without doing a thing while it was reported all of the time. So still a shitbag.
We don’t know that either way.
What we do know, for sure, is that he gave the moderator of /r/jailbait (and other NSFW reddits) a singular trophy, “pimp daddy” that no one else has been issued.
Dude was a founder and admin of the site, allowed himself to be appointed, and allowed the sub to flourish. I think we’re grasping at straws here. But I get your sentiment about being honest.
To be fair, wasn’t he added as a mod by someone who was trolling?
He openly supported the head mod, even gave him a custom award.
grows up
“NOT LIKE THAT!”
he wouldn’t like you to grow up too much
“Spez talks to the NY Times” sounds like a dream I woke up from and tried to shake off.
“Spez paid NY Times for a half-assed article”
The link doesn’t work, how about posting the text of the article?
