I thought it would be good to have a Reddit thread since it's one of the largest sites on the internet and there's always some kind of industrial scale drama and outrage going on, where hordes of users angrily declare they are going to delete their accounts and never return, only for everything to be back to normal the following week.
The latest involves Reddit's announcement that it's going to be charging third party apps astronomical fees for access to it's API. The most popular app is by far Apollo. Reddit's own app is terrible by comparison. Today, Thursday 8th June 2023, the Apollo app developer posted that he is going to shut down his app at the end of the month. Hundreds of subreddits are going to go 'dark' in protest and support of Apollo (and accomplish jackshit in the process)
https://www.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/144f6xm/apollo_will_close_down_on_june_30th_reddits/
The most tasty part of this thread is where he exposes the Reddit CEO Steve Huffman, aka, spez, of lying about their phone call, which the app developer secretly recorded (apparently totally allowed in Canada).
"Can you please comment publicly about the internal Reddit claim that you tried to “blackmail” them for a $10,000,000 payout to “stay quiet”?"
Then yesterday, moderators told me they were on a call with CEO Steve Huffman (spez), and he said the following per their transcript:
Steve: "Apollo threatened us, said they’ll “make it easy” if Reddit gave them $10 million."
Steve: "This guy behind the scenes is coercing us. He's threatening us."
Wow. Because my memory is that you didn't take it as a threat, and you even apologized profusely when you admitted you misheard it. It's very easy to take a single line and make it look bad by removing all the rest of the context, so let's look at the full context.
I can only assume you didn't realize I was recording the call, because there's no way you'd be so blatantly lying if you did."
The entire post has almost 10,000 replies and counting.
Reddit CEO Steve Huffman himself is about to do an AMA tomorrow. Should make for good reading.
The latest involves Reddit's announcement that it's going to be charging third party apps astronomical fees for access to it's API. The most popular app is by far Apollo. Reddit's own app is terrible by comparison. Today, Thursday 8th June 2023, the Apollo app developer posted that he is going to shut down his app at the end of the month. Hundreds of subreddits are going to go 'dark' in protest and support of Apollo (and accomplish jackshit in the process)
https://www.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/144f6xm/apollo_will_close_down_on_june_30th_reddits/
The most tasty part of this thread is where he exposes the Reddit CEO Steve Huffman, aka, spez, of lying about their phone call, which the app developer secretly recorded (apparently totally allowed in Canada).
Quote:"About 24 hours after that call with Reddit, I received this odd message on Mastodon:
"Can you please comment publicly about the internal Reddit claim that you tried to “blackmail” them for a $10,000,000 payout to “stay quiet”?"
Then yesterday, moderators told me they were on a call with CEO Steve Huffman (spez), and he said the following per their transcript:
Steve: "Apollo threatened us, said they’ll “make it easy” if Reddit gave them $10 million."
Steve: "This guy behind the scenes is coercing us. He's threatening us."
Wow. Because my memory is that you didn't take it as a threat, and you even apologized profusely when you admitted you misheard it. It's very easy to take a single line and make it look bad by removing all the rest of the context, so let's look at the full context.
I can only assume you didn't realize I was recording the call, because there's no way you'd be so blatantly lying if you did."
The entire post has almost 10,000 replies and counting.
Reddit CEO Steve Huffman himself is about to do an AMA tomorrow. Should make for good reading.
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