https://old.reddit.com/r/Save3rdPartyApps/comments/145bxmi/ceo_spez_ama_overview/
5 and a half years ago EA held an AMA so disastrous that it was unreadable as downvotes pummelling the answering producers and directors to the...
They're getting voted into oblivion on the AMA, but u/ChariotWheel is helpfully cut-and-pasting and formatting them here.
He screwed up so bad, and it's obvious he's quite stupid...I'm wondering if he was given the Ellen Poa treatment. The investor's knew what changes they wanted to implement to increase revenue, had him implement it, then made him take all the flak. Next, they'll replace spez with someone else, seemingly roll back a few of the changes, and say they're working with the reddit community. The thing is that it's obvious that reddit is irreparably infected. The diseases cannot be eradicated because the disease is corporate greed. Reddit began its time in hospice the moment they shared they were going public. It's over. Done. Say you final goodbyes. RIP in pieces.
I agree. No way any investor is actually gonna want that dipshit to be running the company
That's a good take. When I worked in IT for a big company, they brought in a new CIO that was brought in specifically to outsource all of internal IT. After that was complete he retired a rich man.
He may not get the most downvoted comment in reddit history. But Spez is likely to end up with the most brutal AMA in history...
"Thank you for all the years of hardwork single handedly creating the greatest platform and gracing us with your presence here today. With regards to the api changes and third party apps, I was just wondering if you had started the process of going and fucking yourself? you greedy little pigboy." -u/OoooThatsTheSpot
I wish! He hasn’t answered anything but softball questions I can only assume were posted by his mom and secretary.
Which were initially prefixed with A:, as if he copy-pasted premade answers from a spreadsheet or a word document 🤣
Honestly, I don't see this issue with that - having preprepared answers to make sure they're accurate (though that doesn't appear to have been the reason in this case...) etc is a reasonable thing for an AMA like that
I think the substance (or often honestly lack thereof) of those responses is much more the problem, together with not actually addressing most of the questions that were responded to properly (and I'm honestly just confused by the decision process by Reddit's leadership in general tbh as it was rather foreseeable not to end well. Kinda wish Reddit will die from this hoping a lot of the communities I care about migrate to something like Lemmy instead; but I'm not holding my breath)
If you have pre-answered questions then it's not an AMA, it's an announcement or a press release. An AMA requires the communication to go both ways, and he didn't answer anything he was unprepared for
Someone replied to him with "Aaron would be ashamed of the person you've become" and I've never seen such a succinct destruction of a human being in a long time. Shame Steve has no soul.
It really is. I'm glad I came over to Lemmy a few days before. Makes it easier to find the humor in this jackass imploding something so many people enjoy and contribute to.
I plan to migrate over to Lemmy since this API issue got raised. Its a bit rocky but I think I can manage.
I'm kind of loving it. I grew up on local BBS and before Reddit I was on lots of content-specific forums and boards but Reddit became my primary social media and it sort of absorbed the activity from a lot of those boards. Lemmy feels a bit more like the old internet forum thing, but improved- a bit spread out and janky at times but still condensed enough so I don't have a dozen forum accounts.
Yeah I get what you mean, even though I didn't grew up with BBSes, a tad to young for that. I wholeheartedly think that those mega social media companies are a terrible idea, that now and always show their ugly face, and that socializing should be brought back to: personal homepages, federated blogs and forums and heck even federated video sharing.
Also, I still think its pretty magical that I have an account on feddit.de and can still talk/chat/discuss with you on lemmy.ml. And so can microblog/comment on various mastodon instances while only been registered on one.
Yeah as you say it's pretty magical ... although also janky. It really does show the possibilties of federation in a way that mastodon by itself never seemed to. And @stanleytweedle@lemmy.ml great analogy to BBSes!
Arguably its even better than BBS with per-comment replies and the already mentioned only needing one account thing. I big time miss BBS forums, maybe this'll be my new home.
Any reccomendations on good... what do they call the equivalent of "subreddits" here? subinstances?
Looking through the AMA feels like talking to an ex, after you both already know it's over and there is no coming back.
"we're working on" "we’re not 100% sure we’re happy with" "could be interesting someday" "we haven’t figured out yet"
Maybe you should have figured all of this out before you asked for developers to pay absorbent amounts and shift more people on to your official apps?
I love your typo/autocorrect. "Absorbant" amounts. I picture huge piles of money being used as sponges but not doing anything useful.
I have very bad typing issues lol. I write things super badly, and then rewrite until spell check gives me something and since I don't know how it's spelled I'll just be like "yep, that looks good."
I make frequent typing errors too. I've accepted it as part of my quirks. That's just how I am 🤷♂️
One day the AI overlord's will type for you only by thinking about it. Untill then you can use GPT 😬
He doesn’t seem to understand that when it’s his word against Christian’s, we will trust the person who has demonstrated a history of caring about engaging with the community and producing good work, AND who happens to have brought the receipts.
The kicker here is he could have done this at any time, but only chose to do so after that shit whistle decided to drag his name through the mud. Christian has been a class act through all of this.
Especially the constant "oops our bad plz reach out again this time we'll respond we promise :)" bullshit.
They really seem like they made the decision internally to force everyone into their own app and kill off as many third party apps as possible, presumably for data collection/analytics. That would explain why they're quietly ignoring third party app devs and other alternative solutions (like the paid user API key solution discussed elsewhere).
Same, seeing him blatantly slander the Apollo dev sealed the deal for me. My account is still active, but come June 30th, it's gone.
The quality of his answers, considering the scope of the conversation, was extremely lacking.
Yeah, this is definitely a watershed moment for me. I knew it'd be bad, but I didn't know it'd be "openly admit to not caring about users and only care about money, continue to lie about someone when they have a literal recording of you" level of bad
I knew it'd be bad, but I didn't know it'd be "openly admit to not caring about users and only care about money, continue to lie about someone when they have a literal recording of you" level of bad
And this shows that from now on, it's only going to get worse.
Steve actually doubled down on the blackmail accusation when we have to recording, my god this is some juicy drama.
Reading this from kbin, because he gave me the push... should i actually thank u/spez?
yup. reddit has been really trash for years now. i appreciate the push to find better communities
I’ve been unhappy with Reddit for a while. This is the kick in the ass I needed. So far I like kbin the best out of everything I’ve tried.
Same with me, most of my personal network is all 3rd party based so I'll point them at lemmy or here.
While failing to mention the contribution that third party apps made to reddit’s popularity.
They also promised to support third party clients for a long time - classic bait and switch.
love witnessing this historic collapse, i'm actually hopeful the planned 48 hour+ shutdown will do enough damage to migrate power users to other platforms.
The Ama was enough for me, I'm keeping my reddit account active before a delete and scrub on the 28th just to . . . IDK watch the world burn and comment on it.
/r/EDH had a post right after the AMA saying they're starting their 48 hour shutdown early and are locking every post in the sub and making it to where only mods can post until reddit comes to their senses.
I'm curious if more subreddits will follow suit.