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I am Steve Huffman, the new CEO of Reddit. AMA. (2015)
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Re: I am Steve Huffman, the new CEO of Reddit. AMA. (2015)
#82I think reddit has run its course for me, and I don't think they're losing anything of value when I stop browsing. I've been using old. for years, and always been pretty strict about blocking ads. In the past few years, it's been getting less and less enjoyable for me, and since I stopped visiting on Monday, I've been feeling better, and I don't think I'll be going back. Reddit is saving a little on bandwidth since I…
Last year after I posted a innocuous, benign comment on a certain subreddit I was permanently banned from that subreddit because I was allegedly "ban evading" (I wasn't, I have a single account). I contacted the mod from that subreddit saying I wasn't ban evading, and they replied "Sure" and blocked me from messaging mods for a year. An hour later (without doing anything else) I got banned site wide for 3 days for "b…
Not that different from Wikipedia or Stack Exchange in some ways.
Re: I am Steve Huffman, the new CEO of Reddit. AMA. (2015)
#83Earlier quoted context omitted.
> So it was always about money. I'm more surprised that anyone thought it wasn't about money. Reddit is a business. An unprofitable business. They have to do something to turn a profit eventually.
Well I think this is a bit reductionistic. Every business is a business, but just about every business also won't cross certainly highly-profitable morally-dubious or long-term damaging paths. A car company could maximize short-term profits by reducing quality. Reddit could sell your location data to the highest bidder. Apple could threaten to delete all your pictures unless you buy a super-pro account. And generally…
Well said.
Re: I am Steve Huffman, the new CEO of Reddit. AMA. (2015)
#84Earlier quoted context omitted.
> So it was always about money. I'm more surprised that anyone thought it wasn't about money. Reddit is a business. An unprofitable business. They have to do something to turn a profit eventually.
Well I think this is a bit reductionistic. Every business is a business, but just about every business also won't cross certainly highly-profitable morally-dubious or long-term damaging paths. A car company could maximize short-term profits by reducing quality. Reddit could sell your location data to the highest bidder. Apple could threaten to delete all your pictures unless you buy a super-pro account. And generally…
"A car company could maximize short-term profits by reducing quality."
Like KIA cheaping out on basic anti-theft measures (at least in the United States where the regulations don't demand it).
Re: I am Steve Huffman, the new CEO of Reddit. AMA. (2015)
#85Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's kind of what I suspected ... it seems like a self-inflicted problem, a consequence of the VC model and "enshittification" This makes Wikipedia seem prescient. It also has basically all user-contributed content, and user moderation You can point out a lot of its flaws, for sure, but at the end of the day, the product actually works Reddit for me is barely functional, I still used old.reddit.com Of course that w…
Wikipedia enshittified too, to a lesser extent, but still they have made their begging more and more aggressive over time.
I would say Wikipedia has been overly aggressive in their fundraising
But it hasn't enshittified
I would be really happy if Reddit ended up like Wikipedia. You can argue that Wikipedia could make better use of their funds (you can always argue that), but look at what Reddit did with their funds
They basically dug a big hole and are ruining the product to get out of it. I'd rather Wikipedia have extra cash than be in the hole, and desperate