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.”
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.
I find it quite admirable really, I might just stop paying my bills entirely too and see what happens!
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.
@DarkGamer Sounds like Trump too.
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.
Do you have a credible source ?
For anyone interested in the source:
Not paying rent: https://edition.cnn.com/2023/01/03/tech/twitter-landlord-lawsuit/index.html https://www.thenationalnews.com/business/2023/06/15/twitter-faces-eviction-from-colorado-office/
Not paying Google Cloud https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-twitter-stopped-paying-google-cloud-bills-money-platformer-2023-6
Janitors in New York file lawsuit https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/may/30/twitter-janitors-new-york-city-lawsuit-firing
Violated copyright law : https://www.zeebiz.com/technology/news-elon-musk-in-trouble-twitter-sued-by-17-music-labels-eviction-from-boulder-office-over-unpaid-rent-stst-240235
I wonder how twitter is even running at this point.
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.
They are both morally bankrupt and dumb as a rock.
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
You can’t make this up.
Welp, that about does it for Reddit for me.
Of course, he does. That explains literally everything.
Imagine looking at an active dumpster fire and going “that’s what I want for my home!”
It’s free heating.
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
elon only gets to do all of his crazy antics because he took the company private. but reddit is attempting to IPO? huh?
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.
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.
Of course, why would I expect more of these two assholes
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!
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.
It is better to stay silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and confirm it
Reminds me of the saying, “it’s better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid, than open your mouth and remove all doubt”
Thought this seemingly-intentional bid to wreck the platform had a familiar smell
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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It doesn’t matter how far right you are:
You are right wing.
Jesus fuck. At this point, I think Spez is actively trying (and succeeding) to alienate the community.
