• BrooklynMan@lemmy.ml
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    while this article sheds light from another angle on the investablility of reddit as a commercial property, it still misses the mark regarding the real issues that spez has caused while making the mods appear as somewhat entitled thugs rather than the expired laborers that they are. in any case, spez is made to look incompetent nonetheless.

    i think the clock is ticking for either spez to walk things back, renegotiate API terms, or simply resign. I believe the latter will be the well-earned end result.

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        The terms I see in my mind are greedy and incompetent.

        Incompetent in management. Planning, decision-making, communication, leadership, of understanding what Reddit has, what it is, what its’ strengths are. Every time he does something - or neglects to act - the thing that made Reddit special erodes further.
        Incompetent emotionally. The hotheaded knee-jerk pattern of lying, gaslighting, redirecting blame and name-calling we’ve seen through the years.

        This, combined with greed and his stupid, damaged worldview and political stances, is a volatile cocktail that does stink of maliciousness.

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      I think the only way this ends amicably between the community and Reddit at this point is Huffman is ousted and then they can finally entertain other deals for API access. I’m sure they’re looking at the insane profits AI companies are raking in largely off of data they scraped from sites like Reddit for free and thinking “WTF”. My impression is third party apps got caught kinda in the crossfire on this and weren’t actually their main target, but Huffman has managed to turn it in to some weird kind of ego issue now he’s accusing multiple developers of antagonizing the platform, refusing to work with them, when we have proof from several of them in multiple instances of the direct opposite. Attempts to reach out that go unanswered. An impossibly timeline to implement changes. Trying to throw the Apollo dev under the bus only to double down when confronted with proof he lied to press. Utterly bizarre. He needs to go.

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        My problem with the AI narrative is that AI companies probably don’t even use the API, they use a web crawler to scrape directly from the website. And any who are using the API can pretty easily switch

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      He will resign after the changes are implemented, or after the IPO. He’s the scapegoat of the investors