#steve huffman

[animentality]

[lets-steal-an-archive]

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[uboat53]

Regarding the Reddit blackout, I find it interesting that the more I listen to Reddit CEO Steve Huffman talk about it, the more I'm fairly certain he has no idea how his business actually runs.

You have to know that 90% to 95% of the work on Reddit is done by unpaid volunteers, the moderators of the various subreddits. Reddit itself only employs about 2,000 people to run a site that 52 million estimated users. There is no way that the company could function without those moderators.

The problem is, Mr. Huffman seems to think that Reddit is a technology company. And he's right, those moderators don't build servers, they don't code backend, and they don't do any of the kind of stuff that physically makes Reddit available for users.

But Reddit isn't a technology company, Reddit is a social media company. It doesn't sell the servers or the code, the way the company makes money is by attracting a pool of users and then charging advertisers to show things to those people.

What those moderators do is allow the social part of it to happen. They moderate their forums, they take care of abusive users, they enforce topic limitations… they basically do the majority of the work that makes people want to actually USE Reddit.

Fundamentally misunderstanding what their business does seems to be a habit now among many CEOs of major companies. Maybe one day the boards that hire CEOs will figure out that knowing what a company does is key to running it. I'm not holding my breath, though.

[settlercolonialismisbad]

In case you missed it

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[privatewinters]

Reddit’s CEO is just digging his own grave at this point...

Apparently, Steve Huffman, CEO of Reddit, has no intention of acting in good faith regarding the API changes and Blackout, and in fact, straight up lied about things in an AMA. In response to his BS, many subreddits that have previously decided to Blackout for only 48 hours have changed their minds and Blacked Out indefinitely.

This really deep grave that Huffman has dug for himself came with a really long story. You can read more about it in the links below:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Save3rdPartyApps

https://www.reddit.com/r/ModCoord/

https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/5/23749188/reddit-subreddit-private-protest-api-changes-apollo-charges

https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/10/23756476/reddit-protest-api-changes-apollo-third-party-apps

[lastlane]

So about that reddit CEO saying Elon was doing good things for social media sites. lol.

[electric-renegade]

Lest ye forget

[motherfuckerunleashed]

Remember when Reddit created a community event where any user can place a pixel on a massive canvas every few minutes?

r/place is back right now, and people are using their powers for good: to decry u/spez—the username of Steve Huffman, Reddit’s CEO

Incredible teamwork, gang

[wertercatt]

The standoff between Reddit and Redditors has escalated

[javaelemental]

Sorry, is this douchecanoe saying that he thinks Elon Musk is doing a good job with Twitter and that's why he's shitting up Reddit the same way? Talk about some wildly out of touch bullshit.

NBC News: Reddit CEO praises Elon Musk’s cost-cutting as protests rock the platform

[casthecactus]

imagine being the CEO of reddit that’s so funny. like, what are you? what do you think happens in there?

[icanthocusfocus]

Hey tumblrinas (and redditors). Random question but does anyone have Steve Huffman’s address? Totally fine if you don’t. Hypothetically if someone did have Stevie’s address, and they responded to him on Reddit WITH that address, what would happen?

[squeeegs]

doing my part (ran powerdelete suite to wipe my history, very useful: https://github.com/j0be/PowerDeleteSuite)

[settlercolonialismisbad]

Reddit has a serious problem with consent.

[honor-among-thieves]

If Steve Huffman wants Reddit moderators to be equivalent to business owners and politicians then the asshat had better start paying them.