I have a feeling like he is being squeezed by the investors. It feels like they want a tiktok/Instagram clone and he is the one that has to tell the Reddit community.

I don’t think this was his vision for the site or he would have done it years ago.

Like it doesn’t make it less shitty but more understandable I guess?

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    I get that he may be under pressure to make unpopular decisions, but I still can’t believe that he invited the whole of Reddit to an AMA and then just answered 14 questions - as if that wouldn’t turn out to be the PR disaster it was. Trying to think of a rational explanation beyond “just incompetent” is really hard after that - unless he has some hidden agenda that involves sabotaging Reddit. There’s surely no way he couldn’t have known that AMA would be a disaster.

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      I think the AMA was to slander the Apollo Dev and make him seem unreasonable. The 1$ per user and month line suggests this to me. Christian just pre-empted it with his post but since they had already made the announcement there was no going back now.

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        If the Relay for Reddit dev thinks he can do it for $3/month, maybe spez has a point? Please let me know where I’m going wrong with this line of reasoning

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          There is an interview with him on the verge where he lays his numbers out. One big point was that the people that already bought a yearlong subscription need to be served at great loss. He says it would cost $50,000 for July. Then ofcourse some subscriptions would expire but it would still be a huge chunk of money that had to be paid every month decreasing over the next year.

          I don’t know either way but he doesn’t seem like the type to play foul. I’ll edit this comment with the interview if I find it.

          Found it on lemmy already lol: https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/13/23759180/reddit-protest-private-apollo-christian-selig-subreddit

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        My reaction to the AMA was “…but he’s lying! How did he think that would end?!”