So,
the AMA that Reddit’s CEO Steve Huffman did today was a complete disaster for Reddit;
Huffman avoided taking responsibility for how the company treated Apollo’s developer, and the comments were a popcorn-flinging circus
*while also* being a parade of Reddit community who’s-who, all of whom told the execs participating, that this was not going to fly.
Every stakeholder feels gaslit.
This 6 week period of Reddit history will easily be taught as “How to crash and burn your startup 101”.
Of course, the boycott blackouts are still scheduled.
I’ve talked with a good dozen moderators who use the apps that are shutting down, & one of them reports that she would have to continually bounce between old.Reddit.com and new.Reddit.com, opening 3 pages per report, in order to accomplish just some moderation tasks she could do with Apollo on one page, direct from the moderation queue - and that the official app will not let her ban porn spammers, so her modqueue grows to hundreds of items.
@PennyOaken it seems to me that we're living through the golden age of lessons on how to crash and burn to the ground "successful" startups.
On the other hand, there's a lesson here somewhere about how, with free money flowing, good leadership isn't that hard to fake. Apparently Huffman and Dorsey practiced a very similar leadership, "get out of the way and don't show up too much or ppl may notice". Well, ppl are noticing now no doubt 🤷
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