Reddit CEO assures employees that API pricing protests haven’t hurt revenue
Especially love the part about not wearing Reddit gear in public, like someone's going to beat them up, lol.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/06/reddit-ceo-assures-employees-that-api-protests-havent-hurt-revenue/Open linkView original on sh.itjust.works
What are they gonna do? Admit it?
According to how he justified this whole fiasco, they aren't profitable so... Okay, enjoy still not being profitable? 👍🏼
Given how much he has already lied I don't believe him one bit. Taking an adversarial approach against your own community should tell them everything they need to know about how things will progress from here.
This is why even if things go back to "normal" I'm much more interested in seeing where this fediverse thing is going (which is something I wasn't even aware existed a few days ago, so thanks reddit, I guess?)
saying "were a community" at the same time as youre saying shut the fuck up and accept what were dictating is a good way to lose a few people from your site.
They won't say something that hurt investors confidence
He already publicly admitted that Reddit isn't profitable. I'm sure that inspired tons of confidence in investors.
In industry terms, this is known as cope
If I see someone wearing reddit gear in public I'm giving them a wedgie
Be careful that was the narrative that asshole was pushing like people were going to hurt reddit employees lol.
That was one of his first internal comms was "stop wearing reddit gear in public"