RIF developer counters Reddit CEO’s claims
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RIF developer counters Reddit CEO’s claims
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#2Is anyone else having flashbacks to the freenode takeover?
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#3If 20m is paid, they'll double it next year. Reddit is just a landlord raising rents to unaffordable rates rather than evicting tenants.
And they don't produce or moderate content. Rent-seeking middlemen.
Fediverse socials are very nice once they're up and running, we need better default settings and easier inter-instance interaction for less technical users, but I'm optimistic they're a vast improvement on a centralized model. If you don't like your instance, you can pack up and leave.
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#4Barring all of the arguments for or against why reddit is doing what it is doing, why does spez keep lying? Like he must realize that emails don't disappear and phone calls can be recorded?
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#5Barring all of the arguments for or against why reddit is doing what it is doing, why does spez keep lying? Like he must realize that emails don't disappear and phone calls can be recorded?
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Re: RIF developer counters Reddit CEO’s claims
#6Is anyone else having flashbacks to the freenode takeover?
I did not think of this, but yes, seems the same. Will have to go looking and see what ended up happening with Freenode.
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#7> Shu also tells me that RIF was paying a “sizable revenue share” to Reddit beginning in 2012, which was during Yishan Wong’s tenure as CEO. Shu says he says initiated the talks with Reddit to create the agreement, which allowed for the licensed use of Reddit’s trademarks. (At the time, the app was called “reddit is fun.”) Shu says Reddit terminated the agreement in 2016 — which was the year after Huffman took over as CEO.
So, one of the app developers had a pre-existing agreement with reddit, to pay them money, well before this mess (yes, for the trademark, but still), and spez ripped up the agreement? What on earth?
Also, spez, how hard is it to just... you know, not lie? Clearly there was a communication line.
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#8Barring all of the arguments for or against why reddit is doing what it is doing, why does spez keep lying? Like he must realize that emails don't disappear and phone calls can be recorded?
Right? He seems like a child. Of all people you would think the Reddit CEO would know that once seeming is on the internet it never disappears.
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#9> I said we are working with everybody who is willing to work with us, which includes many of the other third party apps
With that kind of pricing?
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#10Barring all of the arguments for or against why reddit is doing what it is doing, why does spez keep lying? Like he must realize that emails don't disappear and phone calls can be recorded?
This is not his first controversy, he has a history with twisting facts and trying to manipulate people. Including that incident where he edited comments of people criticizing him on Reddit. I would guess there is a lot more of this behaviour that doesn't surface publicly.