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Spez's AMA is live, the shitshow begins

Spez on Christian (Apollo dev)

His “joke” is the least of our issues. His behavior and communications with us has been all over the place—saying one thing to us while saying something completely different externally; recording and leaking a private phone call—to the point where I don’t know how we could do business with him.

Spez is a fucking joke

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Reddit CEO (/u/spez) is going to hold a AMA about the API update

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I dont get why hes doing it at all. There is no universe in which this doesnt end completely poorly, with nuked comment chains and tons of down votes. I expect a ton of users to get banned, and it would be very surprising if spez answers anything other than pre planned questions

I haven't seen Reddit this upset, collectively, since Ellen Pao. Doing an AMA is just going to throw gas on the fire. I dont see the play hes trying to make

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/r/traa's is shutting down

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Traa was the main meme posting place, so it going down is pretty big news. Honestly, it's a tough world for a lot of trans people, so a lot of us hang out online. Personally, I don't have any friends irl who are trans, even though a good portion of my friends are bi or gay, and they often dont have the same experiences. Trans people are only like 1% of the population at large, so it makes sense when compared to the much more substantial populations of lgb folks

Of all of them, I think i'm going to miss tgcj the most.

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On Politics and Forking

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Criticism is always warranted for things. But let's be real - having devs that stan the ccp for software that is, keep in mind, highly decentralized is low risk for the overall development of the platform for anyone worried. If we're talking ethics of it, I'd say buying chocolate bars from nestle is probably a greater evil in the scheme of things than developing software with tankies.

Personally, I always feel when people freak out over ccp aligned people, it's quite a bit of a double standard, and a lot of the time, it's clear there's some other equally nationalistic sympathies at play. Half of social media in general is used for propagandizing, and I don't think any country has its hands anywhere near clean. Hell, half of American media would blacklist people for talking out against the Iraq war not that long ago. Every place has its bias. Purity testing over something like that for a whole framework just doesn't make sense.

Authoritarians and authoritarian sympathizers should be called out at every opportunity, but the actions have to make sense

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Ah that makes sense. Didn't know that thread got that bad.

People who say left unity is a possibility are as dumb as a box of stumps. It's always interesting going to a tankie place and seeing people with lgbt flair talk up Putin, as if they wouldn't be shot on sight.

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Apparently the Reddit AMA with Steve Huffman went about as well as it could go off the rails.

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Let's be real - I don't think reddit is going anywhere quite yet, even after this. It's going to get worse and worse while heavily active users and mods start to leave and stuff, but it's shambling corpse will still exist for a long time in a heavily advertised hell scape with shit to non-existant moderarion.

The truth of the matter is that while the real die hards like us will find a home in places like this, the vast majority will not care. Honestly, I'm fine with that. Most the people coming in to places like that aren't the ones driving good discussion