... and they totally omitted Aaron Swartz as a founder.

The actions of Reddit the last few years (and especially the last few months) have probably increasingly caused Aaron to spin in his grave so much that he could power Los Angeles and San Francisco both with his beyond-the-grave outrage if anyone cared to harness that energy source.

Also a meh article, with spelling and grammatical errors (deliberate?) and omitting even simple details.

"GROW UP" says /u/spez, former moderator of /r/jailbait

What a disgusting article. I wonder how much spez paid for it, or if the author (apparently a 'longtime Redditor') had his account threatened. That, or maybe he's just so used to corporate bootlicking that his first response to seeing a distressed billionaire was to start lapping at his soles.

Also, this puff piece reeks of arrogance. We fucking made that website what it was, and now this pathetic weasel thinks he no longer needs us? And there's dumbasses on Reddit who defend this shit???

Reddit is now further away from a public offering than it was last year, Mr. Huffman said.

Well, that slightly warms my heart.

The whole framing that Spez is bringing maturity is incredibly disingenuous. The "mature" approach is to impose change with no attempt at reaching consensus over a community-driven platform?

What is the mature part of expecting volunteers to keep performing free work as they are actively antagonized? Is he going to pay all moderators and dissatisfied content creators? I don't think so.

They are just using "mature" as codeword for monetized. Or maybe in that classist sense of "learn to submit to your betters, peons".

Is NYT paid to totally distort the truth like they did in that article?

Damn, I wonder if the author of that fluffpiece spit or swallowed after he was done.

Well there's the problem

Reddit, which is based in San Francisco, has in recent years tried to turn from a rough-and-tumble internet message board into a full-fledged social media business by adding executives and strengthening its advertising capabilities.

Made an account on Lemmy 3h ago, best thing I've done to counter the need to constantly check Reddit :)

oh fuck yoooooou.. with that bullshit, using mature as a way to shame people. WE FUCKING MADE YOU.

This week I realized that I'm reading these "about Reddit" stories more as a spectator than an involved party anymore. I've moved on. Feels good not to care enough to care.

The nice thing about Reddit's self-defeating move is we don't have to do anything about it. It's self-defeating.

Mr. Huffman and Alexis Ohanian founded Reddit in 2005 as a site with a countercultural attitude toward the internet and its advertising-based economy. Reddit espoused free speech at any cost, zero ads and an insular culture that laid a foundation for Web 2.0’s meme culture.

Well how things have changed.

They sure left out a ton. Nothing about accessibility etc

Never thought of Reddit as a "social media" site. It sounds like he's trying to turn it into Facebook, bloated and mainly used for corporate business and your grandma.

"Spez talks to the NY Times" sounds like a dream I woke up from and tried to shake off.

The final countdown for the stock ticker fury

Thanks for sharing with us!