this post was submitted on 16 Jun 2023
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Main points: He plans to make moderators popularly elected to more easily vote them out.

Hopes the next frontier will be subreddits as businesses.

He does not want Reddit employees to take on the work. Moderator hours were valued at 3.2 million last year, 3% of reddit’s revenue.

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[–] Thalyssa@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

Spez is a fucking dick.

[–] Tashlan@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

FUCKING LOL he's seething

what I thought about kind of became true: everything he does right now is to make more profits, to work towards the IPO.

What he doesn't realize is that's not how this community works. It's in many ways crowdsourcing content and tools from the community, and the community won't be crowdsourcing just for him to make a profit. And the same goes for mods; they wanna moderate communities they are proud of on a platform that gives them freedom. If they get too much pressure from admins or the CEO and don't like the direction the platform is going in anymore, they WILL leave.

he doesn't realize what he's doing.

[–] whitehatbofh@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

I'm betting it will not be one account one vote. He'll stack the deck, just wait.

Even if it is one account one vote, the bot armies will be there to ensure the outcome the admins want. Moderator puppets to do the will of the admin team, fuck us pleb slobs that are the community and make his shitty site worth visiting.

[–] pe1uca@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Wow, one of the rules of r/redditrequest is not bring drama, flaming or accusations, so now they're completely going over their own rules bringing all of that because some users might not like how some mods run the sub.
I don't think he understands trolls and spammers are the most crying babies when you take down their posts and tell mods are running a dictatorship, haha.

This will mean fetish prone subs are going to be taken over by OF spammers, some clothes subs come to mind.

[–] MiddleWeigh@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

OK so it's basically US politics now? Lol. Sham Wow. This is actually pathetic and made me crack up.

[–] can@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Huffman has said Reddit is not profitable and in Thursday’s interview he said that Reddit’s annual revenue is less than $1 billion. Meta, owner of Instagram and Facebook reported revenue last year of $116.6 billion.

Ouch

[–] bill_1992@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

Pinterest has around the same amount of MAUs as Reddit with $2.8b revenue...

I don't think killing 3p apps and eventually old reddit is gonna make the difference.

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