The landed gentry are only in charge until the king comes to town and chops off a few heads. At least that seems to be the case at Reddit, where CEO Steve Huffman pretended his complaints about current moderators — who were protesting his decision to effectively cut off API access to tons of useful…

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    1 year ago

    I doubt spez cares about reddit. He cares about money. If he has to throw the site under a bus to make some more money he will gladly do it

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      1 year ago

      If investors have any memory at all though, they aren’t going to give him tons of money, because he triggered the Reddit collapse before he sold out.

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      1 year ago

      At this point it’s all about statistics & data, how much can they generate given x, etc. All the community shit is not even secondary consideration, it’s a commodity platform.