locking this since the AMA is now live. go over here to discuss it so your comments aren’t lost!
It’s pretty much guaranteed that AMA is going to go over very, very poorly. It doesn’t take a genius to figure out people aren’t happy about this! I’d think of this as a “why bother” situation usually but I get the feeling spez is looking for attention/validation.
I think it’s going to be a honeypot intended to draw out the critics. Their accounts will be banned and their comments hidden within minutes of saying anything even remotely critical.
Can’t wait to speak my mind and let them ban my 16 year old account.
Goodbye my sweet sweet Karma.
Interesting. I should try that out. If I’m ever going to get banned, this is the way.
What will immediately become ‘The Roast of Spez’ might be the last funny thing ever posted to Reddit at this rate to be fair.
Going down in flames. I like it.
I really don’t see how can this go well. On the other hand, Reddit was never shy of manipulations, so I’m expecting some shady practices…
They will probably do a biased and heavy moderation in the thread.
but I get the feeling spez is looking for attention/validation.
Is he though? His last comment on Reddit as of this time was 10 months ago. I don’t think he really cares, if anything he’s being pressured to do it (and possibly doing begrudgingly) because he’s the more known “face” of reddit.
E: I’m not defending spez, btw. What I mean is just that I think it’s likely he’s an unwilling participant in all this. Reddit is just a source of income for him, he doesn’t care what happens to it. He probably would rather be cruising on his yacht or whatever, than doing this AMA.
Man, this whole API thing really makes me think of how much of a shithole the web is, still after all those years.
I basically have to buy a keyboardless laptop with an awkward resolution if I have to buy a smartphone, all because the software for it is less than optimized crap that mostly just spies on you for the sake of ad revenue, and then leaves garbage all over the system it barely ever cleans up. A wonderful package for a multi-core, multi-threaded CPU paired with at least 3 GB RAM (if that’s even enough today) that you almost certainly can’t use with any comfort to browse the web because almost no one who pays big money to their devs cares that these devs build a proper mobile version of the website - which is part of nearly every webdev interview anyway, and for what, just to make me download the app anyway? What a fucking joke, honestly.
Web on desktop is just as much of a disgrace for all the bloat.
Funny you mention the resolution because in the 90s we had 640x480 which was way smaller than what cell phones have now and we still managed to have very functional web. Yeah the fonts weren’t as pretty and pictured had jagged edges but it worked and it was great!
Exactly! Screens are so big now, they should pack so much real estate, but they just don’t most of the time, and it’s not even because of human eyesight limitations.
I don’t understand how or why modern interfaces have less information density than in 1997 on 640x480.
Or why they are less customizable.
Someone said the use just the middle of the screen display is based on some studies of what people can actually read or take in, but I don’t think I agree (hacker news isn’t as limited and it works for me). But why not have 60 percent of our physical screens display off white blank space. /s
We waited for our images to load one line at a time and we were grateful, dammit!
keyboardless laptop with an awkward resolution
Are you talking about the pinephone, or are you literally buying keyboardless laptops?
@doctorzeromd @sailsperson I assume any smartphone - they often have comparable specifications to laptops but few keying options that don’t suck.
I was actually trying to call out basically every smartphone out there because they have to be packing multicore CPUs with at least 3 GB of RAM in order to be functional.
My current phone has 2 GB, and almost all of it is dedicated to the Android system itself, even without any shells (i.e. not MiUI or anything like that, which is basically Android OS plus something on top, eating up even more resources), and can be really painful to use at times. I seem to have won some performance back by switching to Via browser instead of the native Google Chrome, YMusic instead of the native YouTube app, and RedReader for Reddit (might kiss goodbye to that some time soon, as we all know) - the rest of the applications I use either lack a proper mobile version of the website (viewing some with the desktop option on is horrible), a lightweight alternative, or both. I also don’t have the memory to download every single app for the websites I use as they keep suggesting - more importantly, I don’t want to.
When I’m on PC, I use the web applications available for nearly every single thing I use - but oh no, I can’t do that on mobile, I need an app, which I’d have to update frequently, wasting even more space with the piss-poor solutions they go for in the name of profits.
Damn I’m getting worked up talking software and especially the mobile world.
And half of the apps are just a basic frontend connecting to the same web app anyway. I feel you. Linux for mobile is probably still decades away from being truly usable but I can dream
Can someone please set up c/fuckspez, and scrape every comment from reddit today that contains the words “fuck /u/spez”?
Comedy gold in the making
Let’s not forget the time Spez untracably edited a user’s comment, only admitted it after being caught, and then joked about it. If he breathes, he lies.
Bracing myself for the [deleted] [deleted] [deleted] everywhere.
Why delete when he can just edit the comments? Lol.
Unless they’re going to come out and say “Belated April Fools! Ha ha!”, I don’t see how this is not going to be a dumpster fire
They’re going to IPO. This is the whole reason for Reddit’s existence up to this point. Nothing the users do will possibly stop this; the users are what is up for sale. Of course they are going to be unhappy, they’re about to get exploited. That’s been built in already.
Conde nasty bought Reddit for 12m back in 2006 iirc, this has been the plan since then I bet.
Oh, it’s far, far too late for that. Apps and subreddits are already shutting down in advance. It won’t kill Reddit most likely, but the quality is going to go way down in about a month.
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Even before the API debacle, Reddit has had some serious issue, and every one of those issues is u/spez. He can’t just fight his way through this. The incentive to leave has always been there, and now he’s pushing us over the edge, and he’s gonna try to win us back with some empty words.
This is the same guy who stealth edited a comment of a user he was angry with and then justified his decision by saying he grew up being a troll on the internet. Leave the troll’s playground and watch it crumble. Reddit isn’t spez. It’s all of us.
How did he get busted?
My memory is a bit foggy, but I believe it was something like: on a Donald Trump subreddit, a top comment with tons of upvotes was anti-spez. Tons of upvotes meant that tons of people saw it. That comment then changed to saying spez was awesome. No “user edited comment” or “admin edited comment” tag or anything, like what you normally see in edited comments. People banged on spez’s door about it and he admitted that he had both the power and inclination to stealth edit other peoples’ comments.
Since it was a Trump topic, way too many users let what happened slide, but it’s become just one more thing people can point to about Reddit’s issues.
Lol, what a tool.
How does this work on Lemmy? Can mods edit users posts?
Nope.
Here are they actions that can be performed by admins and/or moderators
Thanks :)
I don’t think lemmy provides tools for that (good), so normal moderators, can’t do this. With direct access to the server, maybe. So make sure your server admin isn’t spez.
The person running an instance has access to the database of that instance and can do whatever they want with the data in that database.
Only 1 server is sending the changes to the other servers? So if the instance is the source, the same thing would happen? Or will most servers have the data already by then, and not receive updates?
If you view the data from Beehaw’s interface, you see the data of Beehaw’s database. If you view the data from Lemmy.world’s interface you see the data of Lemmy.world’s database. There’s no guarantee of consistency between the databases of different instances.
I think we’re all getting a little distracted here, let’s refocus on Rampart…I mean, API pricing…
This is going to be a SHIT SHOW.
I’m sure it’s gonna be an absolute disaster. I can’t even fathom why they would think this is a good idea right now. Probably some roundabout bullshit about pleasing investors.
It really goes to show he doesn’t know what he’s going
He’s just going to edit everyone’s comment so it looks like they’re all praising him
Reddit tanking could push people to a more decentralized and neutral use of the internet. I can only hope!
This whole debacle was the final straw for me to finally kick Reddit and move to a decentralized non-corporate platform, and I know I’m not the only one. Really hoping the general migration picks up a ton of speed after July 1st and more people learn that the federated model isn’t too scary or hard to understand🤞
Yeah Lemmy has been great so far. Some kinks, but the seems like a solid alternative to Reddit.
It feels so surreal to watch this train wreck in real time. This is a chief executive officer?
This sort of circus is what happens with communities led by corporate greed. I’m taking a deep breath and I’m letting go.
Finding questions he actually answered in this thread is quite difficult, so it’s easier to just look at his comments: https://www.reddit.com/user/spez/comments/
He will only answer planted questions. Mark my words.
He will edit the questions he doesn’t like
Abso-Freking-Lutely is not going to answer random questions like an AMA. He will anser some planted questions and then will dissapear, and tell some news organization or make some tweet about how he had to leave early because of all the negativity and the bridaging and the people swearing at him, and how we would have loved to stay otherwise and answer real questions.
Oh man, I’m making popcorn for this, it’s going to be a complete trainwreck.
I mentioned this in an adjacent thread, but as much as I hate downvoting in principle, I will gladly downvote that AMA out of principle.
And have popcorn ready 🍿
Even the AMA announcement is at “0” (so probably in the thousands negative, didnt check). I’ll also check in with some popcorn. =)
Someone had to beat Electronic Arts’ Battlefield II comment eventually
For those who do not know, it’s the most downvoted comment on reddit.
Hey, potential investors, look at this upward trend in user engagement in the last month!
I’m gonna get popcorn and nachos!
Waiting around for the shitshow. Reddit has been dying way before this API change. Moderation has been absolute shit and he has done nothing about it.
