He can’t reverse course and admit defeat now, reddit will keep trying to strongarm mods because they have to win and show that they’re in control and not their mods or their users. Ultimately they do have all the power and can ban everyone and remove all the mods and replace them, but it will damage the site. Spez doesn’t care though, even if the entire site is burned to the ground, he’ll have won. And he’ll blame everyone else for his loss of IPO value.
It’s not just spez. It’s the board that probably made the decision to disable API access, and that can remove spez if they choose to. But they won’t, because they want the enshittification necessary to let them cash out once they go public.
Maybe he’s a willing scapegoat for the board with a promised golden parachute? I just can’t think of how somebody can get that far and be so tone deaf.
No like even today, if he came out with an honest apology video and offered to work with devs on a reasonable API price plan he could still mostly recover and keep all the low effort users.
But for some reason he’s hell bent on actually crashing the community. Even the lurkers are starting to jump ship. It’s either sociopathic narcissism or a high school shaped ego, but he just can’t let it go.
After reading Spez’s interviews I deleted the reddit bookmark on my browser. Once Apollo shuts down I’m deleting the only reddit app on my devices. That dude is a tool.
I downloaded an extension that can automatically redirect me to another website that way if, by force of habit, I try to go to reddit, it redirects me here.
Spez has an ego problem and now he’s in too deep.
He can’t reverse course and admit defeat now, reddit will keep trying to strongarm mods because they have to win and show that they’re in control and not their mods or their users. Ultimately they do have all the power and can ban everyone and remove all the mods and replace them, but it will damage the site. Spez doesn’t care though, even if the entire site is burned to the ground, he’ll have won. And he’ll blame everyone else for his loss of IPO value.
It’s not just spez. It’s the board that probably made the decision to disable API access, and that can remove spez if they choose to. But they won’t, because they want the enshittification necessary to let them cash out once they go public.
Maybe he’s a willing scapegoat for the board with a promised golden parachute? I just can’t think of how somebody can get that far and be so tone deaf.
I bet my lunch that Spez and all the board will sell their stock and leave.
No like even today, if he came out with an honest apology video and offered to work with devs on a reasonable API price plan he could still mostly recover and keep all the low effort users.
But for some reason he’s hell bent on actually crashing the community. Even the lurkers are starting to jump ship. It’s either sociopathic narcissism or a high school shaped ego, but he just can’t let it go.
Former lurker here! I jumped shipped and have posted more on Lemmy in my first week than 11 years on Reddit.
He’s had a bit too much of the attitude of, “I’m the founder. All must bow to me”.
I’ve had to deal with a lot of that at work before :)
After reading Spez’s interviews I deleted the reddit bookmark on my browser. Once Apollo shuts down I’m deleting the only reddit app on my devices. That dude is a tool.
I downloaded an extension that can automatically redirect me to another website that way if, by force of habit, I try to go to reddit, it redirects me here.