Cross-posted from reddit, the actual one

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      Specifically? That the response was already prepared in advance, in fact they probably have the response to most questions already answered, in a Q: question A: answer mode, and spez forgot to remove the “A:”

      More broadly? That spez doesn’t care about us, using pre-made answers and all

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        TBH, it’s crazy that they would engage in a public forum about such a public, contentious subject without preparing everything in advance. You’d normally want to vet your answers and make sure you don’t make things worse… Which they did.

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        I’m not sure that’s really necessarily a sign of that tbh. Answering AMA’s starting with A: was pretty common on reddit back in the day.

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          that’s true, but considering his other comments don’t have it and he did edit it out makes it well, more suspicious

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    I was actually worried when I first saw the AMA post. I thought Reddit was going to back down on the API costs and decentralized nostr and fediverse projects would go back to niche services “too technical” for broad adoption

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      I am a technical person but I didn’t know about fediverse projects because it is not my domain and I didn’t have a strong enough reason to go looking for better solutions. Oh boy, am I glad spez pulled this stunt so I could land all the way here!

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    He’s also manipulating his karma score, has to be.
    This is him at the start of the AMA:

    And after:

    How could his karma have only gone down by ~300, when he was downvoted thousands of times?

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    Not too surprising for this kind of position amid this kind of shitstorm. Of course the community can make their conclusions if they (we) expected something different.