'Unlike some of the 3P [third-party] apps, we are not profitable,' Steve Huffman says in defending the move to charge for high-volume API access.

‘Unlike some of the 3P [third-party] apps, we are not profitable,’ Steve Huffman says in defending the move to charge for high-volume API access.

  • zombuey@lemmy.worldEnglish
    25·
    1 year ago

    The statement from r/watchredditdie when they closed the sub really put things in perspective for me.

    Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian have gone so far as to renege on their promise of listing Aaron Swartz among Reddit, Inc’s founders. Such an egregious breach of contract - only performed once their agreed-upon co-founder no longer walked the earth - could only be carried out by immoral individuals acting in fundamental bad faith. In this way and so many others, Reddit is dead.

    • camelCaseGuy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      1 year ago

      If true, that actually speaks volumes. Like what kind of guy removes a dead man, at some point revered, from the list of co-founders. What do you lose by not doing it? What did you win by doing it? I mean, the odds are you lost more than anything. Besides, he should have been your partner. Even if you did for the cash, what about all the moments you had with him? Was Aaron such a piece that you’d rather have him erased?

      I seriously can’t get it.

      • wiredfire@beehaw.orgEnglish
        5·
        1 year ago

        Ego. Tremendously inflated ego, perhaps stoked by watching Musk and thinking “great idea, I can do that too!”…?

    • Gray@lemmy.caEnglish
      6·
      1 year ago

      Aaron Swartz will always be the real spiritual founder of what Reddit was at its best for me. Huffman will be the fool that didn’t understand the ethos of it and drove it into the ground in his greed.

    • Xilly@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      Whoa. I missed this tidbit of information. Aaron Swartz’s memory defiled by their actions just reaffirms my decision to leave.