it is genuinely hard to believe how it could have gone worse

  • ubergeek77@lemmy.ubergeek77.chat
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    I’m actually a little disappointed. We barely broke -2,000 points on his most downvoted comment. Everyone was hoping this would break EA’s record of ~670,000 downvotes.

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      A lot of people are saying there could have been manipulation and the true downvote count could have been higher. For sure they are suppressing and banning people/subreddits that mention lemmy or any reddit alternatives, and spez has a history of editing people’s comments etc.

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      There is no way for that score to be true with the engagement the thread got. Also the points for his answers haven’t moved since I read the IAmA many hours ago.

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    Honestly I think it could have gone much worse. CEO of tech company being a douche has got be one of the top 3 requirements for the job.

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      CEO of a tech company about to go public berates users and declares his company is not turning a profit

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      I interviewed at Reddit a few years ago and found the arrogance and smugness to be off putting. I went from wanting to work for Reddit to thinking I dodged a bullet. The culture I was exposed to made me think they are all douches. They definitely thought they were changing the world and the arbiters of democracy. In my experience that sort of thinking comes from the top.

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      Naw, he’s banking on the hope that we are all addicted and the draw of Reddit means this will blow over. In all reality, the average Redditor won’t come to Lemmy or one of the alternatives. Like what happened to Digg, until an alt has critical mass, they won’t leap. What Spez doesn’t realize is that he is creating the space for innovation to happen.

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      He’ll just ignore it because he doesn’t believe any of this matters at all. He just sees it as more money in his pockets.

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    What did /u/spez mean by “his joke” when referring to apollo creator in one of the ama comments?

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      You can read the whole call transcript here: https://gist.github.com/christianselig/fda7e8bc5a25aec9824f915e6a5c7014

      Basically, Christian initially says:

      I could make it really easy on you, if you think Apollo is costing you $20 million per year, cut me a check for $10 million and we can both skip off into the sunset. Six months of use. We’re good. That’s mostly a joke.

      And then you can read the misunderstanding that follows and the apologies because of the misunderstanding.

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    Don’t worry, it’ll only get worse from here. And if you think there’s no way it’s getting worse then he would somehow find a way to make it worse that no one could ever figure out.