Reddit risks losing its identity in pursuit of profits(www.techzine.eu)

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Reddit isn’t profitable, despite having more than 50 million daily active users. In preparation for an IPO, CEO Steve Huffman put the platform’s API

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ef9357@lemmy.one

23 points

1 year ago

Yes, I loved it when Christian Selig let Hoffman (fuck spez) know his lies were exposed because he (Christian) had recorded their conversation… and provided proof. Would love a video of Hoffman’s reaction.

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itsJoelleScott@lemmy.world

4 points

1 year ago

Hoffman’s reaction

Care to share a link if you have it readily available? Otherwise I can hunt around for it :)

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ef9357@lemmy.one

1 point

1 year ago

Not sure one even exists, but would love if it did.

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some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org

3 points

1 year ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RnYana-q6g

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minikieff@lemmy.world

2 points

1 year ago

Christian is not talking to Huffman there.

Also, fuck spez, but Christian looks pretty bad in that sound bite. The $10 million thing really looked like a threat, and Christian tried to back pedal only after he got called out.

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towerful@programming.dev

2 points

1 year ago

I always interpreted it along the lines of
“Apollo is losing you 20m per year. Buy me out for 10m. You save 10m the first year, and 20m the following years. I make a one-off 10m, which is 50% of what you value my app to be worth per year.”

But I agree that whole exchange doesn’t go great.
Easy to misunderstand without hindsight!
However, it is quickly clarified and agreed upon (from both sides) that it’s not a threat.
So, spez takes part of that conversation massively out for context and said Christian threatened Reddit. Which isn’t in good faith

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minikieff@lemmy.world

2 points

1 year ago

I know the full context. It doesn’t really make it any better. Bringing it up in the first place is bad, regardless of any “clarification” (a.k.a. damage control).

Besides, do you really think your interpretation wouldn’t be considered a threat? Reddit won’t say publicly they considered it as one, but it is very clear they took it that way (and, probably, correctly).

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