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[–] [email protected] 252 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Lol at the sign-language interpreter, like Reddit gives half a shit about accessibility now.

[–] [email protected] 58 points 8 months ago

Sign language yes, real time captions no. Only whatever live transcription crap your phone or computer could do

[–] [email protected] 169 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I recognize that guy. He was a moderator of the r/jailbait subreddit for the many, many years it was hosted on Reddit.com.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] brbposting 41 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 63 points 8 months ago (12 children)

Your source admits Spez was a jailbait mod. MAYBE he was made one without knowing, but he DEFINITELY could have removed himself and didn’t.

Spez was a jailbait mod for years. That’s a fact.

[–] brbposting 28 points 8 months ago (7 children)

btw I actually might be helping you attack him better

Instead of a spurious claim he actively managed a pedo sub—

—a more definite claim he permitted a pedo sub to remain on his site? (Assuming he was aware of the sub, which I bet you could find indications of)

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[–] [email protected] 139 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Of the three people involved in Reddit's creation, he was the most useless and antithetical to reddit's greater vision.

Swartz was a far better person.

[–] [email protected] 62 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Those are always the guys that wrest control though. They have no contributions, so instead they spend their time scheming.

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[–] [email protected] 125 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (10 children)

You know, I realize all the people who put in money want a return on their investment. I get it.

But what I can't forgive is killing 3rd party clients when your official client sucks all the donkey balls in every reality in every universe.

You couldn't come to a reasonable and sane fee for 3rd party clients? Barring that, you couldn't just buy a superior client like RiF and bolt your name on it?

Fuck Spez.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 8 months ago

They did buy a superior client. Alien Blue it was called. Then internal politics killed it. Even today Alien Blue would still be a better experience, without any updates in the last five years.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 8 months ago (1 children)

This is what always got to me that I don't think people focus on enough. It's such an anti-consumer pattern. Instead of improving the official reddit app, or buying out a third party one, they simply shot the competition in the knees.

If you want everyone on the official app, be competitive and invest into making it not suck donkey balls. Obviously that's far too much work.

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[–] Socsa 19 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

There are a hundred different ways they could have reached a compromise on third party app support if it was just about API limits. They killed it because they want to gather mobile app telemetry like everyone else does these days.

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[–] [email protected] 106 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Oh so now they don't like ads

[–] [email protected] 30 points 8 months ago

Only ads that serve them are allowed

[–] [email protected] 95 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I’m sure their next “Reddit Event” will not have a real time chat.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 8 months ago

I bet you are right lol

[–] [email protected] 89 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Aww, you hurt their delicate fee-fees! How mean! /s

Also, lol at that pathetic sycophant's reply below your comment. Dude needs to stop twerking for spez.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 8 months ago

There were many like that, lol!

[–] [email protected] 39 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Who is that comment even aimed at? Being that it is right under OP's comment in (what I presume to be) a busy chat, I doubt it is a response to OP.

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[–] [email protected] 64 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Reddit has become Facebook with a different management team. These people are motivated by profit and that's the only way their decisions make any kind of sense. Whenever we mix the profit motive with a service for people, the people will always play second fiddle. It's why mixing profit with healthcare is inhumane and it's what's so great about Wikipedia.

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[–] [email protected] 63 points 8 months ago (1 children)

🫡 thank you for your service 🫡

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[–] [email protected] 57 points 8 months ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 53 points 8 months ago (3 children)

So...what exactly was this event? Was it like a AMA? Or was it like one of those corporate circle jerk things where everyone says what they are supposed to say?

[–] [email protected] 34 points 8 months ago (1 children)

If I’m guessing correctly, it’s a modcon, which makes it even more pathetic for mods to attend an event hosted by the very people who have given them grief this past few months, just so they can feel special with their own exclusive event.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

Yes, that's what it was. I went in just to mess when Spez was gonna talk.

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[–] [email protected] 50 points 8 months ago

I got banned because I said "lemmy dot world" in reply to someone who said they wished reddit had an alternative.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

We must all remember spez’ has an abnormal love of cats, among his other issues. Like keeping slaves and resource hoarding. https://i.imgur.com/a0F2bW6.png

[–] [email protected] 41 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (3 children)

Yeah redditors can do that too, it would probably look somewhat like this:
Come to reddit, we have CEO who's an idiot but controls everything, a 100% closed API unless you pay exorbitant prices to use it, and we have advertisements everywhere, but WE NEED TO MAKE MONEY. So please come. We also have sociophants and trolls.

/Steve Huffman

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[–] gravitas_deficiency 37 points 8 months ago

lol you fucking legend.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 8 months ago (1 children)

If he doesn't want to accept dissenting opinions, he should do like Mr. Burns and only allow prefabricated text.
Lisa: "Mr. Burns your campaign seems to have the momentum of a run away freight train. Why are you so popular?"

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 8 months ago (9 children)

My lifetime ban from Reddit (which resulted from saying that we need a more progressive political candidates in our country) was a badge of honor, proving my opinions to be correct and undigestible to fascists. So I had a medallion engraved with my date of expulsion which I keep in a place of honor over my fireplace.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 8 months ago (6 children)

My permaban was for saying it is a moral obligation to punch nazis lmao

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Don't forget, he used to moderate r/jailbait.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 8 months ago (5 children)

Heard this is a myth but by all means continue to propagate this rumor 🥳

[–] TheSlad 32 points 8 months ago (2 children)

If i recall, at the time sub owners could designate anyone as a moderator without them having to accept the position, meaning that its very possible he was made a mod of the subreddit as a joke/troll but never actually interacted with it.

Hes still a dipshit though

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Spez has like a bunch of fore written answers and then tries to fit them in the questions asked

-TitusRex, hero, probably banned now as well

lmao

[–] [email protected] 28 points 8 months ago

Screw Reddit and spez. You did well, OP!

[–] [email protected] 24 points 8 months ago (1 children)

He did a talk and Q&A in England awhile back at I believe Oxford and he kept checking his watch, it just seemed rude.

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[–] ElBarto 19 points 8 months ago

he was a competitive ballroom dancer, who hacked his roommate’s Web site as a prank.

What a fun little image that conjures up.

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