Q&A with Steve Huffman: Reddit's API “was never designed to support third-party apps”, he didn't know how much they “were profiting off of our API”, and more
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- The arrogance is palatable. — This folks is how you ruin a product, you allow your leadership to have ego instead of acumen. … Le Walker
- Huffman is right, no one should subsidize a business for free. Weird though I can't seem to find the statement where Reddit announced that they are going to start paying moderator and content creators... @paul@tapbots.social
- If we accept that assumption, saying that Reddit is subsidizing apps like Apollo is truly absurd as without the power users that use third party apps / utilities there would be significantly less content for the 90% of dummies who use the official Reddit app to consume all day while viewing ads and/or buying subs. … @eli@hodapp.club
- What Spez seems to be misunderstanding in his interviews is the 90-9-1 rule of the internet. This seems particularly relevant as he mentions 90% of people are on their own platforms: https://www.theverge.com/... … @eli@hodapp.club
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Discussion
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Mastodon
Mastodon
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“The fact that Reddit isn't profitable is not Christian Selig's fault. It's Reddit's. …
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@jww.wtf
Justin Williams
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Oh man. He's doing the CEO equivalent of posting through it.
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@jakeliebert.com
Jake
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This is probably true, but even so Huffman could have given a longer runway to apps that have been operating within the status quo of the last decade
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@albertwenger
Albert Wenger
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At @usv we looked at several of the high-priced Reddit investment rounds and each time passed because there was no good answer to the question about how this won't ultimately pit the company against the people on the platform https://twitter.com/...
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@minimaxir
Max Woolf
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The Reddit strike should go on forever just because of this dialogue chain. https://www.theverge.com/... [image]
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@benjamingoggin
Ben Goggin
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NEW: Reddit CEO slammed protest leaders in an interview, saying he plans to institute rule changes that would allow users to vote out mods He said mods currently are like “landed gentry,” and the current system isn't democratic. https://www.nbcnews.com/...
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@ambermac
Amber Mac
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“#Reddit is fighting for its soul. Many users are in revolt over API pricing changes that will shut down some of the most popular 3rd-party Reddit apps, & they're furious at (its CEO) after last week's AMA that made it clear the platform wouldn't budge.” https://www.theverge.com/…
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@merrittk
Merritt K
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Insane that the CEO of Reddit is singlehandedly destroying the site in pursuit of short-term gain. The internet is basically getting burned down for immediate profits and in a few years there's going to be nothing good about it left
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@queer_queenie
Queenie
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this may be one of the greatest ceo meltdowns we'll ever witness https://twitter.com/... [image]
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@arawnsley
Adam Rawnsley
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More than any major social media platform, Reddit is so reliant on its users for the platform's success. It's the mark of a CEO who doesn't understand his company and is in way over his head that he thinks it's a good idea to declare war on them https://twitter.com/...
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@jonathanvanian
Jonathan Vanian
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One big problem: If users delete content or archives in an act of protest, as one Reddit moderator told CNBC some are considering, “there's nothing there anymore.”
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@mathewi
Mathew Ingram
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So Reddit is willing to burn its reputation to the ground for an extra 5 percent of revenue https://twitter.com/...
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@nickbaumgardner
Nick Baumgardner
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‘Reddit is fighting for its soul.’ TIL vampires have souls. Who knew https://twitter.com/...
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@alecmuffett
Alec Muffett
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Oh dear. It sounds like the Reddit CEO has forgotten that he/they serve the communities which use the site, rather than vice versa. https://www.nbcnews.com/...
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@balf4our
Joe
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Removing devoted volunteers that keep your platform regulated maybe isn't the best way to start making more money https://twitter.com/...
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@moorehn
Heidi N. Moore
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I'm increasingly concerned that tech CEOs have zero knowledge of economic systems, particularly feudalism. There is no parallel between Reddit mods and “landed gentry.” Landed gentry did not do labor. Mods do labor. For free. https://twitter.com/...
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@iqbal_farabi
Iqbal Farabi
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Leading informal groups (such as online/offline communities) is more often than not a thankless job that is done out of passion by those who do it. If your product/service/org relies heavily on communities, removing such leaders is a very reckless move, IMO. https://twitter.com/.…
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@0x
Ezra ‘God’ Olubi
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is he trying to tank his company's ipo on purpose? or maybe he thinks he's elon musk. 🤭 https://twitter.com/...
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@turtlekiosk
@turtlekiosk
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what's funny is the reason the whole open API thing started as a customary thing was as a compromise so people would stop scraping their websites https://twitter.com/...
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@knittins
Nitin Sundar
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Reddit is going down. Twitter is going down. For all their problems, these were the only two social networks that had any sort of meaningful discourse and debate. Instagram and LinkedIn - both avenues for vain self-aggrandising - continue to thrive. 🤷♂️ https://www.theverge.com/…
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@queer_queenie
Queenie
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i'm sorry i keep posting about this but i'm in awe at how much of a manchild runs this company. this is the guy they're using to represent themselves before an IPO. wow https://twitter.com/... [image]
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@brianmfloyd
Brian Floyd
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the reddit ceo looks like someone who posts in alt-right subreddits https://twitter.com/...
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@film_girl
Christina Warren
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Spez is a little bitch and I hope his IPO fails and he gets shitcanned. https://twitter.com/...
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@docsquiddy
Doc
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does he not remember what reddit (the community, not the company) did to the last CEO who crossed its users? https://twitter.com/...
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@nameshiv
@nameshiv
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Reddit should let employees vote on who the CEO is But the truth is that what we are seeing across the board is a concerted effort from the moneybags to wrest away the most democratic platforms in the world from the actual masses because they don't like what the poors are saying …
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@noturtlesoup17
@noturtlesoup17
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Gorilla mindset, baby. https://twitter.com/...
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@papapishu
@papapishu
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sorry but this full interview is one of the funniest things I have ever read I have never seen a ceo so pissed off and losing it https://www.theverge.com/...
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@mirandareinert
Miranda
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me when people on indieheads were calling me annoying and i couldn't do anything about it https://twitter.com/...
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@rjcc
Richard Lawler
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I feel like the sign that someone doesn't respect you is when they try to sell you NFTs https://twitter.com/...
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@yoda
Drew Olanoff
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never go full elon https://twitter.com/...
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@dorseyshaw
Dorsey Shaw
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Yeah well users should be able to vote out executives https://twitter.com/...
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@jeremypgordon
Jeremy Gordon
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Instigating a trench war against lifelong posters... do not see this going well https://twitter.com/...
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@cooperlund
Cooper Lund
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Tech companies used to be run by people who were heralded as visionaries, now they're run by rich losers who are mad at the mods https://twitter.com/...
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@durjoy
Ace Bhattacharjya
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Someone needs to tell the Reddit Board that they're killing the GOLDEN GOOSE! Feels like Digg all over again. https://www.theverge.com/...
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@nkulw
Noah Kulwin
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Lol Reddit is only going to get more fun over the next two weeks https://twitter.com/...
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@rjonesy
Ryan Jones
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Spez released his offensive. 🍿 “Never designed to support 3rd-party apps” https://www.theverge.com/... Threaten to remove Mods https://www.macrumors.com/... Slams protest leaders https://www.nbcnews.com/...
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@iboudreau
Ian Boudreau
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It also wasn't designed to pay dividends to shareholders https://twitter.com/...
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@trevmckendrick
Trevor McKendrick
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.@8Spez betting on the majority of Reddit's userbase being reasonable takes huge guts & is IMO a very good bet https://www.nbcnews.com/...
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@david_ingram
David Ingram
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New from me: I interviewed Reddit CEO Steve Huffman today about the protest that has made much of the site inaccessible this week. https://www.nbcnews.com/...
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@bobbyallyn
Bobby Allyn
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NEW: In his 1st interview since the boycott, Reddit CEO Steve Huffman tells NPR the protest has not changed the company's plan to start charging for data. Story from me + @NPRinskeep “I think it's time we grow up and behave like an adult company” https://www.npr.org/...
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