Adella1961Jun 10, 2023
sdw

Reddit’s AMA with its CEO on their API (read: third party app killing) is a train wreck. These are remarks from their CEO. Why does Reddit consistently have such terrible leadership?

Before this, Huffman had no public interactions with the community or website for 10 months. Imagine the CEO of Facebook or twitter not posting for a year.

Reddit communities should go dark to demand this guy leaves. This is some of the most incompetent management I’ve seen.

Jun 9, 2023 at 11:44pmIvory for iOS
Show threadSlade WatkinsJun 9, 2023
@sdw Some of the biggest subreddits are going dark until further notice. Good.
Show threadPaulJun 9, 2023
@sdw he's so incredibly out of touch
Show threadCharlie FishJun 10, 2023
@sdw @film_girl Honestly the comment ratings (not sure that’s the proper name for it) say it all. Every one of his comments have hundreds of 👎
Show threadkira :3Jun 10, 2023

@sdw is he pulling a musky by playing with the karma LMAO

I enjoy the ones that are specifically written to be unpalpable to people who would buy hypothetical reddit stock, they understood the assignment

Show threadLiemPong_pagongJun 10, 2023
@chrisisgr8 i did not read the AMA as if have already left. Do you have screenshots of these. This is quite interesting.
Show threadQuinn NelsonJun 10, 2023
@sdw He makes the Zuck look like a great CEO.
Show threadOliver AmesJun 10, 2023
@snazzyq @sdw of all the social network CEOs right now, Zuck and Evan are looking downright competent!
Show threadAaron Bieber (no relation)Jun 10, 2023

@snazzyq @sdw Facebook is a menace to mental health, and Instagram moreso, but you can't say Zuck isn't transparently devoted to his principles. The Metaverse is an idiotic idea, but I totally respect Zuck's commitment to it.

At least he kind of owns being a self-involved robot who likes smoking meat and not having virtual balls.

Show threadJohn P. GreenJun 10, 2023

@sdw “Imagine the CEO of Facebook or twitter not posting for a year.”

Don’t threaten me with a good time! 😆

Show threadAcetophelesJun 10, 2023

@sdw omg what a shit show. It would have been better for the CEO to have not even bothered with an AMA.
What a trainwreck.
I left Reddit for one of the many instances of Lemmy on the mobile.

For the little time RIF has left. Once that app is gone. So too will I.

Show threadSir SiersJun 10, 2023
@sdw woof
Show threadJohn McCrylinJun 10, 2023
@sdw can someone tell me what's going on?
Show threadFord EytouJun 10, 2023
@JohnMcCrylin
#Reddit decided to charge 3rd party apps a lot of money to access reddit data. So much that 3rd party apps could not afford the data, thus shutting down 3rd party apps. Also, the CEO appears to be some kinda doofus.
Show threadPaul SilverJun 10, 2023
@JohnMcCrylin @sdw Reddit are starting to charge for API use, it was previously free. They made this change at short notice. The API is used by all mobile apps that show Reddit to you. The cost to use it is extremely high, many times higher than for similar sites. This has caused so much bad will towards Reddit the CEO had a public Q&A session about it. It went as badly as previous times they've gone against their users
Show threadJohn McCrylinJun 10, 2023
@paulsilver @sdw I see... Thanks for the clarification. The push back is to be expected
Show threadeggsandwichJun 10, 2023
@sdw spez actively slandering the Apollo dev is possibly the craziest thing here lmao
Show threadEshu MarneediJun 10, 2023
@sdw He’s an insensitive, incapable, arrogant crybaby. Should step down immediately before this IPO or shareholders won’t be happy. Community isn’t now, but when has a large social media company ever cared for its community?
Show threadCiechom  Jun 10, 2023
@sdw this guy is so disconnected from the community it's wild.
Show threadnickaposJun 10, 2023
@sdw what a shitshow
Show threadJayJun 10, 2023
@sdw it's all quite Elonbelievable. Sincerely hoping that the developer of Apollo teams up with other 3rd party devs took create an alternative platform to Reddit, and/or platforms such as Discord develop Reddit-like features (separate app?)
Show threadsteejoJun 10, 2023
@binaryhelix I firmly believe this is already happening with Discord. Their shift to usernames and beta UI are screaming hints of this. They clearly want to expand beyond messaging into Twitter and reddit-like features, though inevitably it will fall given time.
Show threadFahri Reza 🍉Jun 10, 2023
@sdw was he envious of someone else's donations? He can swap places and he still won't get as much.
Show threadBadExampleMan 🟣Jun 10, 2023

@sdw "Imagine the CEO of ... Twitter not posting for a year."

I would pay. A lot.

Show threadFabian【ファビアン】🏳️‍🌈Jun 10, 2023
@sdw We'll see.
Show threadScott 🏴😷Jun 10, 2023
@sdw seeing the way #elmo is acting and going "ooh boy, can I act like that too?"
Show threadImperor 🎲🎮Jun 10, 2023
@sdw This man is the reason I am killing all my reddit accounts and moving away from it finally. Absolute Clown that man.
Show threadSibachianJun 10, 2023
@Imperor @sdw oh come now, he's not alone in the god awful decision process. they are all to blame.
Show threadWatchdogJun 10, 2023
@sdw Unfortunately this seems to be the life cycle of all modern sources of media nowadays. Start niche with a small following, then gain traction with more users until it reaches critical mass, then kill it off once its rate of profit can no longer increase for stakeholders to line their pockets. I miss when the internet used to be the wild west
Show threadscleraJun 10, 2023
@sdw spez is a joke, and Reddit will be soon too.
Show threadkk5direJun 10, 2023
@sdw makes me think of when you have a little kid moderating a network and going power crazy "becuz is my network 🥺🙏"
Show threadNiceMicroJun 10, 2023
@sdw I guess you don't need to put in much effort in leadership, when the appeal of the site is the community and the users are the ones building these communities. The company only need to provide the server space and the software, so no surprise that they have no idea how to manage the community.
Show threadPattonJun 10, 2023
@sdw I think all this emotional reaction is unhelpful. The reality of how a startup must grow almost dictates this kind of action at this time. App devs absolutely should have anticipated that the cost of providing APIs would eventually require some costs to pass along to them. Not having planned, it comes across as bratty and naive to complain like this. The wiser and more constructive response would be to quietly work with Reddit and help figure out ways to minimize cost increases and/or grow revenue in other ways. If Reddit can’t eventually be profitable, then the communities lose anyway.
Show threadjamiemgrayJun 10, 2023
@pattonadams @sdw I genuinely don’t see that reaction from developers. There is an openness (certainly seen from @christianselig back in April when this was first announced) to make paid access to the APIs work. What has been an issue is the cost being far greater than expected, but more so the attitude towards developers from Reddit around the transition. This is a clear lack of direction, planning and management which would have stopped any emotional reaction before it even started.
Show threadsdwJun 10, 2023
@pattonadams respectfully, this seems like a reaction to my tweet instead of the situation at large. I’d recommend reading Christian’s post.
Show thread⚙ARCJun 10, 2023
@sdw pretty soon the only ppl left on centralized services will be marks getting fleeced ...
Show threadHannah is trying to copeJun 10, 2023
@sdw oof ouch, the responses are so bad!
Show threadgnoejuanJun 10, 2023
@sdw
More proof C-Suite positions are entry level
Show threaddavorbJun 11, 2023
@sdw I really hope lemmy, or something like it takes off. Reddit is dying. I think the only thing keeping it running is that tons of lemmy instances require manual approval; there are no good apps and the UI sucks.