Reddit CEO praises Elon Musk’s cost-cutting as protests rock platform

Skyler@kbin.social to Reddit Migration@kbin.social – 248 points – Reddit CEO praises Elon Musk’s cost-cutting as protests rock platform
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Steve Huffman said in an interview that Elon Musk's cost-cutting at Twitter was inspiring and that the two have chatted "a handful of times."

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Inspiring? Elon Musk's cost cutting strategy was he just decided not to pay people, not to pay his landlord, not to pay his janitors, not to pay his hosting companies, not to pay many Twitter employees, and not to bother following laws, because, presumably, "fuck you, I'm a billionaire." If that's inspiring to spez, I'm feeling really good about leaving his platform. Aaron Swartz must be spinning in his grave so fast we could generate power from it.

So now we know who Huffman wants to be when he grows up. Muskrat. And that wraps up the show for today folks. Time to pull the plug on Reddit.

I find it quite admirable really, I might just stop paying my bills entirely too and see what happens!

I mean, I'm quite inspired to live without paying people for their services. I wonder if it will work for someone not yet a billionaire, though it'd make it easier to become one

What really irks me is that Elon Musk is essentially getting away with it too...

Musk is probably never going to have meaningful personal financial consequences for his behaviors, but it does seem like he's destroyed his credibility with all but the alt-reich in record time.

Holy Shit - talk about being out of sync with your userbase and community...

THAT statement might kill the heart of reddit as much as anything else.

Next up: CEO of MSNBC wants to turn the unhoused populations of major cities into dog food and has a lot of respect for Ruppert Murdock's journalistic integrity.

Also this dumbass isn't Elon. Say what you want about the guy but I think he'll figure Twitter out. u/spez/ does not have that same ability.

undefined> Say what you want about the guy but I think he’ll figure Twitter out.

You know you're talking about the guy who literally asked people to print out all the code in twitter's codebase, right?

What do you mean? Reddit's already dead

I feel like there are still a lot of people on reddit, but most of the content creators have come to lemmy. So glad r/piracy posted a link or I wouldn't have known about lemmy

Of course, he does. That explains literally everything.

This guy continues to get worse and worse.

Hes just now showing us who he has always been. My guess is he shed all his PR people who were keeping him from looking like the right wing ahole he really is

Of course, why would I expect more of these two assholes

What baffles me is, how can someone who leads a media company be so out of touch with reality and current events ?

Fellon Muskolini is defaulting on rent, created a literal toxic environment by cutting janitorial and cleaning services, stifled Google Cloud and AWS - two services he needs to keep the site working, destroyed the value of the company, made fun of a disabled Icelandic national hero, and this is just skimming the surface. Now /u/Spez come in public to say he admires all that incompetence ?

There's being oblivious and then there's.... whatever alternate-world insanity that goes inside his peanut brain.

I was pretty fed up with Reddit and the many site issues and instabilities they were having in the last couple years, not to mention the level of discussions that had deteriorated significantly in the same time-frame. I had already stopped visiting, even deleted bookmarks to Reddit, all in favour of hanging out on Mastodon.

I'm glad I did, because Mastodon opened my eyes to the sheer beauty of the Fediverse. Heck, I've been mucking around the Internet since nineteen-ninety-seven, and this federated stuff really brings back a little bit of that magic network of yore, full of weirdness and exploration, with actual discourse. The only thing missing are the "under construction" GIFs.

Wait I'm new here, is Mastodon federated with Lemmy?

Yes. I tested it, you can follow SubLemmies from Mastodon and even reply to threads and comments from there. I haven't tested the opposite, but it should be possible.

elon only gets to do all of his crazy antics because he took the company private. but reddit is attempting to IPO? huh?

Ok, hear me out - what if both Spez and Elon are secretly fans of the fediverse, and are taking over the major social media sites and ruining them so that more people start using the fediverse?? What if that's been the plan all along???

I did have that thought pop up for a few seconds every now and then during the huge Twitter migration, but Space Karen is nowhere near smart enough to plan something like that.

No, but now that the idea is out there he'll definitely pretend that was his plan the entire time!

Thought this seemingly-intentional bid to wreck the platform had a familiar smell

That was really fast... Two weeks and the guy goes from quiet CEO to fuckboy destroying his own platform

Like Elon, his big mistake was thinking he was smarter than he is and deciding to open his mouth thereby alerting the public to the fact that he's very much not smart.

Reminds me of the saying, "it's better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid, than open your mouth and remove all doubt"

I wonder if Huffman is also a far right extremist? Would make sense with his """democratic""" desire to strikebreak and his refusal to remove subreddits that spout hate speech.

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Jesus fuck. At this point, I think Spez is actively trying (and succeeding) to alienate the community.

Because of course he did. It's like he's choosing to do the worst possible thing at every single step.

So that's where he got all those terrible business decisions from. Maybe he can sell flame throwers to bring in the lost money.

It all makes sense now. Idk how you can look at the state of twitter and think it’s a model to aspire too. Weird.

Looks like someone is trying to brownnose his way to an acquisition/merger.

Imagine looking at that dude in a constant rant against anything "leftist" or LGBTQI, firing everyone, not paying his bills, failing in every way possible to make money, becoming the laughing stock of the whole fucking internet, and say "Yeah this is who I wanna be"

What a joke.

Subreddits as a business... Can you see what Twitter is doing wrong? Well expect Reddit to do exactly the same thing.
Oh you want a platform for discussion? Too bad... Here, download our tiktok-wannabe ad-riddle app.

One completely out of touch ideologue praising another isn't surprising but it is shocking how such incompetent people can land positions like this.

It's not too late for Reddit to claw some of it's reputation back, but this guy needs to step down for it to happen.

So how about he cuts reddits 2000 employees down to something reasonable so they don't have so much on their payroll then? Like how the hell do they need 2000 employees when volunteers do everything. They were literally at 600 just two years ago.

They did just do a round of layoffs recently that dropped something like 5% of their staff. I won't be at all surprised if that ends up just being round 1.

@Skyler ...That headline tells you all you need to know about that slimeball. Anyone who has any association with Karen Musk deserves to be pilloried...

He likes what Elon has done to twitter? Reddit's screwed. He thinks Elon made good financial decisions with twitter? Huffman's screwed too. Elon is so rich that we might never know how much financial damage he's done to twitter. Huffman doesn't have that safety net.

Anybody who agrees with Elon Musk on anything in this day and age should not be allowed to be in charge of anybody or anything.

There's probably something beneficial to them behind the curtain to setup spammy accelerationist echo chambers with average normies as the audience. Tinfoil hats on.

For years, Twitter held an outsized position in the social conversation and Elon has managed to ruin that. It was the single biggest strength, IMO. No one spoke about someone’s Facebook posts or Reddit posts; society spoke about people’s Tweets. The idiot ruined that and somehow this dope wants to emulate him?

Yeah, let’s convert reddit also to some platform where white supremacy BS can spike again… f@kk Elon and u/spez

What in tarnation happened in the past months at reddit? Did his brain just melt and flew out of his ears?

Ah so thats what's been going on. He caught the "I'm rich and only care about making more money and/or owning the wokes or something" mindset from that other 'titter' 42069 insecure man child.