• EvilColeslaw@beehaw.org
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    Nah I think it’s clear he wanted it to leak. He’s just an egomaniac who thinks he’s actually a good leader. That section of the memo was for investor confidence. (It’ll pass, no revenue effect so far, etc.) The other part about warning employees not to wear Reddit gear in public for fear of violence was meant for the press and for the uninformed, to try to garner sympathy and paint the protestors as bad actors.

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      Obvious tactic, paint the other side as violent and you’ll get sympathy. Won’t someone please think of the corporation.

      Make no mistake, spez would love to see someone in a reddit tshirt beat up on the street. He’d be able to plaster that everywhere he could showing how sad his side is

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        A false flag is a typical right wing move. I can picture spez doing it. He should pick some kid name Aaron just to make it that much more spiteful.

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        It’s working, too. The Forbes article which I saw posted either here or on Kbin didn’t even push back on Huffman’s claim that traffic from LLMs was the reason for the price hike, and I haven’t seen any big publication use the audio or transcripts showing a slam-dunk case of slander (or libel, whichever one applies to text) against the Apollo developer.

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      The other part about warning employees not to wear Reddit gear in public for fear of violence was meant for the press and for the uninformed, to try to garner sympathy and paint the protestors as bad actors.

      Glad people aren’t blind to this obvious ploy. When LGBT violence is at an all time high I don’t think you need to be worried about wearing a reddit shirt.

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        Unfortunately, plenty of people are blind to it. While a large chunk of Reddit’s users and communities are offline in protest, there is a sizable “anti-blackout” sentiment growing among the newer users there who weren’t paying attention until now. They don’t know why their subreddits went dark or why users are upset, but they’re quick to direct their anger towards “powertripping mods” instead of the company leadership and policies that incited all of this. It’s a very “don’t care, got mine” mindset by people who have a very minimal understanding of the issue.