The man speaking in this clip is Nilay Patel. Hes the Editor in Chief at The Verge.
He also used to be a lawyer before moving to journalism full time. So he knows Bullshit when he sees it.
I used to think that The Verge were just a bunch of Apple zealots who couldnāt even do a pc build video properly. Theyāve come along way since then. Reddit would be absolutely insane to try and take on something like The Verge.
Side note , Nilay also has a podcast called Decoder where he interviews the heads of companies to get an idea of how they run and what their goals are. Its a pretty good show and I reccomend it. The one where Nilay takes on the head of Substack was hilarious
The hit piece Nilay did on Elon was fucking savage and one of the best things Iāve ever read on that site
This just amazes me. It seems as if their blinded by power. Actually thinking theyāre the true and only Frontpage of the internet.
Spez here thinking that the content hosting is more important than content generation. Redditās value to the community or advertisers is a result of the users, not Reddit Inc.
I mean to be fair, I imagine when communities were in blackout things were looking dire. I havenāt been to reddit since, but I imagine things are pretty much back to normal? So itās clear he can sort of spit on the reddit userbase how much he wants. People will still come back.
Noooo, it has not returned to normal at all. When the protestors left, a flood of other people came in to take their place. It was enough to create a noticeable shift in tone. I would now describe reddit as a whole as barely left-leaning. Almost every sub moved a couple notches noticeably rightward.
It has cancer. Prognosis not good, when monetization was the root cause.
Wow, spez is taking on The Verge now? He thinks heās a lot bigger deal than he really isā¦
The Verge has been covering the shit out of the Reddit death spiral and Iām so here for it. Good for them.
Can anyone explain to me, please, how is this good (financially) for the reddit investors? I mean, I ran from reddit since I only accessed it from sync. Didnāt really care for the āpoliticsā. Now I get here and see thereās a lot more to it than just the shut down of 3rd party apps (which I understood as a financial decision). If moneyās the motivation for all of this, how is it financially healthy?
