As more and more articles and interviews come out about spez and how he’s inspired by how Musk running Twitter, I genuinely can’t believe he’s this stupid. Anyone else think that we could see a repeat of what happened with Ellen Pao when all the gate subreddits were banned? All of these quotes from Spez are coming out, and the hate over the changes is directed at him, and blamed on him almost more than on all the admins, or the board. “Fuck spez” has become the slogan for opposing the changes at this point.
I won’t be surprised if the board removes him at the 11th hour, and reduces the api costs to a level that the biggest apps (Apollo, RIF) will be able to keep operating, but may not allow for new apps to compete.
Anyone else think we could see it blow over like this?
I was thinking the same.
I mean, he’s not Musk, he can’t afford to just spit crap all day like he’s doing, any “sane” company would have closed his mouth long ago and let PR people talk in his place.
So why the company is letting him do that? To get all the heat and then fire him as a scapegoat? Very possible.
I just hope people won’t buy it this time, one Ellen Pao is enough.
Does Reddit actually have a BOD? I thought it was just technically Steven Newhouse in control, if not effectively. If Advance Publications is still majority owner, I wonder if he is even aware of everything going down there since Reddit would be such a small part of that empire…