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Can someone please set up c/fuckspez, and scrape every comment from reddit today that contains the words "fuck /u/spez"?
Comedy gold in the making
Let's not forget the time Spez untracably edited a user's comment, only admitted it after being caught, and then joked about it. If he breathes, he lies.
Man, this whole API thing really makes me think of how much of a shithole the web is, still after all those years.
I basically have to buy a keyboardless laptop with an awkward resolution if I have to buy a smartphone, all because the software for it is less than optimized crap that mostly just spies on you for the sake of ad revenue, and then leaves garbage all over the system it barely ever cleans up. A wonderful package for a multi-core, multi-threaded CPU paired with at least 3 GB RAM (if that's even enough today) that you almost certainly can't use with any comfort to browse the web because almost no one who pays big money to their devs cares that these devs build a proper mobile version of the website - which is part of nearly every webdev interview anyway, and for what, just to make me download the app anyway? What a fucking joke, honestly.
Web on desktop is just as much of a disgrace for all the bloat.
Funny you mention the resolution because in the 90s we had 640x480 which was way smaller than what cell phones have now and we still managed to have very functional web. Yeah the fonts weren’t as pretty and pictured had jagged edges but it worked and it was great!
Exactly! Screens are so big now, they should pack so much real estate, but they just don't most of the time, and it's not even because of human eyesight limitations.
I don't understand how or why modern interfaces have less information density than in 1997 on 640x480.
Or why they are less customizable.
Someone said the use just the middle of the screen display is based on some studies of what people can actually read or take in, but I don't think I agree (hacker news isn't as limited and it works for me). But why not have 60 percent of our physical screens display off white blank space. /s
We waited for our images to load one line at a time and we were grateful, dammit!
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I'm sure it's gonna be an absolute disaster. I can't even fathom why they would think this is a good idea right now. Probably some roundabout bullshit about pleasing investors.
It really goes to show he doesn’t know what he’s going
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Reddit tanking could push people to a more decentralized and neutral use of the internet. I can only hope!
This whole debacle was the final straw for me to finally kick Reddit and move to a decentralized non-corporate platform, and I know I’m not the only one. Really hoping the general migration picks up a ton of speed after July 1st and more people learn that the federated model isn’t too scary or hard to understand🤞
Yeah Lemmy has been great so far. Some kinks, but the seems like a solid alternative to Reddit.
Finding questions he actually answered in this thread is quite difficult, so it's easier to just look at his comments: https://www.reddit.com/user/spez/comments/
It feels so surreal to watch this train wreck in real time. This is a chief executive officer?
It’s pretty much guaranteed that AMA is going to go over very, very poorly. It doesn’t take a genius to figure out people aren’t happy about this! I’d think of this as a “why bother” situation usually but I get the feeling spez is looking for attention/validation.
What will immediately become ‘The Roast of Spez’ might be the last funny thing ever posted to Reddit at this rate to be fair.
Going down in flames. I like it.
I think it's going to be a honeypot intended to draw out the critics. Their accounts will be banned and their comments hidden within minutes of saying anything even remotely critical.
Can't wait to speak my mind and let them ban my 16 year old account.
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I really don't see how can this go well. On the other hand, Reddit was never shy of manipulations, so I'm expecting some shady practices...
They will probably do a biased and heavy moderation in the thread.
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This sort of circus is what happens with communities led by corporate greed. I’m taking a deep breath and I’m letting go.
Bracing myself for the [deleted] [deleted] [deleted] everywhere.
Why delete when he can just edit the comments? Lol.
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Waiting around for the shitshow. Reddit has been dying way before this API change. Moderation has been absolute shit and he has done nothing about it.
Even before the API debacle, Reddit has had some serious issue, and every one of those issues is u/spez. He can't just fight his way through this. The incentive to leave has always been there, and now he's pushing us over the edge, and he's gonna try to win us back with some empty words.
This is the same guy who stealth edited a comment of a user he was angry with and then justified his decision by saying he grew up being a troll on the internet. Leave the troll's playground and watch it crumble. Reddit isn't spez. It's all of us.
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Too late. I just deleted everthing
I think we're all getting a little distracted here, let's refocus on Rampart...I mean, API pricing...
This is going to be a SHIT SHOW.
Do we know when this is supposed to start?
It's gonna be filled with bullshit
"We're right, you're wrong, cope and cry about, thanks for coming" type of AMA incoming, along with the fan favorite nothing burger with lame ass excuses on the side
BRB, I'm going to grab some popcorn
Any idea what time this is supposed to begin?
The Verge reports the following:
CEO Steve Huffman is set to host an AMA about the changes on Friday; the company aims to start it at 1:30PM ET / 10:30AM PT.
I don't see it happening. Reddit's comments have been janky for 12 hours now. The site isn't functioning proper. What a shock!
It's going to be the greatest AMA since Rampart. I can't wait.
They didn't specify. They literally just said we're gonna do an AMA tomorrow. Chances are it isn't really an AMA so much as a "press release" with pre-answered questions of their choosing.
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Oh this should be some top tier entertainment. I’ll go back to Reddit for a day to join the fun!
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