Inspiring? Elon Musk’s cost cutting strategy was he just decided not to pay people, not to pay his landlord, not to pay his janitors, not to pay his hosting companies, not to pay many Twitter employees, and not to bother following laws, because, presumably, “fuck you, I’m a billionaire.” If that’s inspiring to spez, I’m feeling really good about leaving his platform. Aaron Swartz must be spinning in his grave so fast we could generate power from it.

Holy Shit - talk about being out of sync with your userbase and community…

THAT statement might kill the heart of reddit as much as anything else.

Next up: CEO of MSNBC wants to turn the unhoused populations of major cities into dog food and has a lot of respect for Ruppert Murdock’s journalistic integrity.

You can’t make this up.

Welp, that about does it for Reddit for me.

Of course, he does. That explains literally everything.

Imagine looking at an active dumpster fire and going “that’s what I want for my home!”

This guy continues to get worse and worse.

elon only gets to do all of his crazy antics because he took the company private. but reddit is attempting to IPO? huh?

Of course, why would I expect more of these two assholes

What baffles me is, how can someone who leads a media company be so out of touch with reality and current events ?

Fellon Muskolini is defaulting on rent, created a literal toxic environment by cutting janitorial and cleaning services, stifled Google Cloud and AWS - two services he needs to keep the site working, destroyed the value of the company, made fun of a disabled Icelandic national hero, and this is just skimming the surface. Now /u/Spez come in public to say he admires all that incompetence ?

There’s being oblivious and then there’s… whatever alternate-world insanity that goes inside his peanut brain.

I was pretty fed up with Reddit and the many site issues and instabilities they were having in the last couple years, not to mention the level of discussions that had deteriorated significantly in the same time-frame. I had already stopped visiting, even deleted bookmarks to Reddit, all in favour of hanging out on Mastodon.

I’m glad I did, because Mastodon opened my eyes to the sheer beauty of the Fediverse. Heck, I’ve been mucking around the Internet since nineteen-ninety-seven, and this federated stuff really brings back a little bit of that magic network of yore, full of weirdness and exploration, with actual discourse. The only thing missing are the “under construction” GIFs.

Ok, hear me out - what if both Spez and Elon are secretly fans of the fediverse, and are taking over the major social media sites and ruining them so that more people start using the fediverse?? What if that’s been the plan all along???

That was really fast… Two weeks and the guy goes from quiet CEO to fuckboy destroying his own platform

Because of course he did. It’s like he’s choosing to do the worst possible thing at every single step.

Thought this seemingly-intentional bid to wreck the platform had a familiar smell

I wonder if Huffman is also a far right extremist? Would make sense with his “”“democratic”“” desire to strikebreak and his refusal to remove subreddits that spout hate speech.