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 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.

Of course, he does. That explains literally everything.

Welp, that about does it for Reddit for me.

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.

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

This guy continues to get worse and worse.

Imagine looking at an active dumpster fire and going "that's what I want for my home!"

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???

Jesus fuck. At this point, I think Spez is actively trying (and succeeding) to alienate the community.

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

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

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.

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

So that's where he got all those terrible business decisions from. Maybe he can sell flame throwers to bring in the lost money.

Looks like someone is trying to brownnose his way to an acquisition/merger.

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

Imagine looking at that dude in a constant rant against anything "leftist" or LGBTQI, firing everyone, not paying his bills, failing in every way possible to make money, becoming the laughing stock of the whole fucking internet, and say "Yeah this is who I wanna be"

What a joke.

It all makes sense now. Idk how you can look at the state of twitter and think it’s a model to aspire too. Weird.

That checks. He wants to be lil Elon Jr

So how about he cuts reddits 2000 employees down to something reasonable so they don't have so much on their payroll then? Like how the hell do they need 2000 employees when volunteers do everything. They were literally at 600 just two years ago.

One completely out of touch ideologue praising another isn't surprising but it is shocking how such incompetent people can land positions like this.

It's not too late for Reddit to claw some of it's reputation back, but this guy needs to step down for it to happen.

He likes what Elon has done to twitter? Reddit's screwed. He thinks Elon made good financial decisions with twitter? Huffman's screwed too. Elon is so rich that we might never know how much financial damage he's done to twitter. Huffman doesn't have that safety net.

Subreddits as a business... Can you see what Twitter is doing wrong? Well expect Reddit to do exactly the same thing.
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Anybody who agrees with Elon Musk on anything in this day and age should not be allowed to be in charge of anybody or anything.

@Skyler ...That headline tells you all you need to know about that slimeball. Anyone who has any association with Karen Musk deserves to be pilloried...

For years, Twitter held an outsized position in the social conversation and Elon has managed to ruin that. It was the single biggest strength, IMO. No one spoke about someone’s Facebook posts or Reddit posts; society spoke about people’s Tweets. The idiot ruined that and somehow this dope wants to emulate him?

This cannot be real. He finds it inspiring?!