Makes some good points that we have all been making for a while. The only problem is that not us too late for spez to change course. He has to continue doing this at least to save face (which I don’t know is possible).

I think the biggest issue is that u/spez thinks Reddit content is proprietary when it’s really a public forum.

Wait until Reddit is hit with massive fines for failing to comply with all the GDPR deletion requests.

The last paragraph is interesting and I think sums up what’s wrong with the whole zeitgeist of these tech and media companies: it can be good (and, I argue, is actually better) without being “worth billions”. This feeling that sustainability isn’t enough, decent profit isn’t enough, it has to be worth the GDP of a small country is awful, and it is always done at the expense of the users, who for the most part complacently don’t give a fuck. Unbound greed really is an ugly thing to see…

Edit: fixing autocorrect…