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[–] Lobstronomosity@lemmy.ml 52 points 2 years ago (6 children)

It's gonna be heavily moderated and anything negative will be removed, probably.

[–] bappity@lemmy.ml 21 points 2 years ago (1 children)

they lied about Apollo blackmailing them I wouldn't be surprised

[–] erogenouswarzone@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago (3 children)

What? Who lied about what? Can you expand on this, I have no idea what it means other than knowing Apollo is probably referring to the Reddit app.

[–] perkele@sopuli.xyz 14 points 2 years ago

So my understanding is Reddit, or specifically u/spez, tried to claim that the Apollo developer was blackmailing them over the entire API pricing debacle. The Apollo developer posted the audio and transcript of the call with Reddit showing they were lying. Now they've claimed his App is poorly developed and making wasteful amounts of API calls- so now he's posted a large swath of code online to disprove that also.

tl;dr reddit CEO caught in a couple lies

[–] bappity@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

sorry duud I'm using jerboa and didn't get a notification for this, looks like people have already clarified below though

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[–] itchick2014@midwest.social 28 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I hope it beats EA for downvotes lol.

[–] ipkpjersi@lemmy.one 18 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I feel like it will, I swear he has every redditor pissed off at him right now.

[–] averagedrunk@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Because there's no way they'll manipulate that number in the database.

[–] kaffeebohne@feddit.de 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Could we theoretically pay reddit for API access and log / monitor any changes to the vote counts that way ?

[–] Pisck@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago

There are actually some legit anti-spam reasons that reddit has been obfuscating vote counts and totals for a long time now. Even if this wasn't a known phenomenon, I don't think I'd trust the API call results anyway.

[–] frippa@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I think it's still free till the 1rst of July, so, if someone has experience they could do something like that

[–] kaffeebohne@feddit.de 3 points 2 years ago

Maybe someone should

[–] ipkpjersi@lemmy.one 3 points 2 years ago

Actually that's a really good point, and I should have thought of that because I'm actually a programmer lol

[–] argv_minus_one@beehaw.org 3 points 2 years ago

They didn't bother with the announcement of the API prices. Only 4% upvoted.

[–] cowleggies@reddthat.com 25 points 2 years ago (3 children)

This is going to be better than the Woody Harrelson Rampart AMA. And by better I mean an unmitigated dumpster fire. Can't wait.

[–] fomo_erotic@lemmy.ml 16 points 2 years ago

Yeah I didnt realize they were giving away front row seats to the dumpster fire of a decade. I dont know if it can be worse than Elon buying twitter, but we can hope.

[–] BackOnMyBS@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago

Can't beat the Jose Canseco one. I used to go back to it a few times a year when I was down for a pick me up. That AMA was prime shitposting.

[–] Ado@lemmy.ml 25 points 2 years ago

I used to be the CEO of one of the most visited sites before we decided to blow it up, AMAA!

[–] Luminance6716@lemmy.one 19 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I can’t wait to see how bad this goes after reading about the Apollo drama with Reddit.

[–] CheshireSnake@lemmy.one 15 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

This'll be one of the worst AMAs after the James Corden one. Lmao. He'll get crucified.

Edit: or maybe he'll just edit the questions/comments of users before answering.

[–] stanleytweedle@lemmy.ml 11 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I know this won't happen but the best possible outcome would be if nobody showed up.

[–] DJDSXSHOWFX@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

Why do you say that?

[–] Wenchette@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

What's happening? Sorry for having to ask

[–] InfiniWheel@lemmy.one 29 points 2 years ago (5 children)

For the sake of avoiding linking to reddit, basically Spez accused the main Apollo dev of blackmailing them for 10 million to "make the drama go away". But the call was recorded by the Apollo dev and it turns out Spez took one interaction out of context and even backtracked, since in the original call he even straight up said "oh sorry for misunderstanding".

(The apollo dev said that if Apollo generates so much load on the servers why not just buy it to put an end to it. Spez took it as a threat, the Apollo dev explained himself and Spez apologized like 4 times for misunderstanding)

[–] BackOnMyBS@kbin.social 9 points 2 years ago

I don't know how someone can insults their character worse than by pretending to be a victim and getting caught as a fraud. At that point, your word is gone and no one should waste their time listening to anything you have to say.

[–] animist@lemmy.one 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Aaron never would've been like Steve

[–] buxtonwater@lemmy.one 5 points 2 years ago

That's why the government pushed him to suicide with their insane prison sentence. He was too good for us.

[–] veroxii@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

And the real irony is that it's Reddit doing the extorting.

[–] Wenchette@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago
[–] tookmyname@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 years ago

Reddit really going all on rage bait content.

[–] lixus98@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

How is lemmy preparing for it?

[–] vanderbilt@beehaw.org 14 points 2 years ago (2 children)

By popping every bag of popcorn.

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