He'd have to come in around 1m to make sense, but Evan makes a great point as usual -- his leadership will be needed with Landy out at least one more year.
Honestly, I wonder if Iāll go back to Pi devices. Itās so much easier and cheaper to buy a used small form factor device from eBay and install Linux. I think the Pi Foundation really shot themselves in the foot with their shift away from the hobbies. I know they claim they focused on āsmall companies making a livelihood using Piāsā but I saw too many examples of small orgs that simply sold their inventory at a massive price increase rather than actually using the piās for a real purpose. Iāve lost a lot of respect for the Pi Foundation and itāll take more than getting throngs āback to normalā for them to regain my trust.
I'm in a similar boat. I've replaced my PI's with small form-factor PC's and they have been much better for my needs and not any more expensive. The only downside is energy consumption, but the difference isn't big enough for me to notice.
Also, I'm not a huge fan of the fact that hey put a former spook on their board of directors.
My biggest draw is their low power compute capacity. I've yet to find a used rack or similar that covers the job well - maybe when the ARM racks start hitting ebay as used/refurb
The Verge posted the actual memo that was released, you can find that below and the article here
Hi Snoos,
Starting last night, about a thousand subreddits have gone private. We do anticipate many of them will come back by Wednesday, as many have said as much. While we knew this was coming, it is a challenge nevertheless and we have our work cut out for us. A number of Snoos have been working around the clock, adapting to infrastructure strains, engaging with communities, and responding to the myriad of issues related to this blackout. Thank you, team.
We have not seen any significant revenue impact so far and we will continue to monitor.
Thereās a lot of noise with this one. Among the noisiest weāve seen. Please know that our teams are on it, and like all blowups on Reddit, this one will pass as well. The most important things we can do right now are stay focused, adapt to challenges, and keep moving forward. We absolutely must ship what we said we would. The only long term solution is improving our product, and in the short term we have a few upcoming critical mod tool launches we need to nail.
While the two biggest third-party apps, Apollo and RIF, along with a couple others, have said they plan to shut down at the end of the month, we are still in conversation with some of the others. And as I mentioned in my post last week, we will exempt accessibility-focused apps and so far have agreements with RedReader and Dystopia.
I am sorry to say this, but please be mindful of wearing Reddit gear in public. Some folks are really upset, and we donāt want you to be the object of their frustrations.
Again, weāll get through it. Thank you to all of you for helping us do so.
To me, this looks like it was absolutely destined for a public release/intended leak. The victimisation says it all with them crying that their employees are going to get attacked. This is a simply absurd statement.
Any indicated statement from a CEO of a community forum that insinuates that their users, who are currently undergoing a completely peaceful protest, are in fact, volatile enough to attack employees simply doing their job has completely lost the plot. Their position as CEO is completely untenable.
Thanks Reddit for throwing extra wood on the fire. I was getting concerned that it wasn't raging enough.
Does the man not realize the absolute exodus the users are trying to warn him about? Blow over? Reddit will die overnight once people can't use their favorite third party apps anymore, or browse their porn subs.
So I think lemmy will be it's own nich and reddit will just keep on going. I don't think much will happen as long as ppl don't rage over there and live the wild west, spam with gore and porn on all subs with no moderation so businesses do not want to have their ads there. Seems far fetched tho and I don't know if any big wigs will even notice it. Maybe smaller business that doesn't matter to reddit. And also all the bots will make it seem active too. And reddit only care about numbers that can be shown to their stakeholders and partners/sponsors.
But I also think it is fine. Does who care will be somewhere else and does who dont will stay there. But the reason this all happened suck tho
Haha I guess. If the bots works after the api change. I don't know how much worth it is for them to pay for the api. So maybe it will shock us all of how different reddit will be?
I mean, every CEO would do so, because they have a flawed view of their product. That is what they are paid for: believing in their product. Otherwise they would not do their job properly.
Let's just hope the community remains strong to display what we are capable of together, just like with what happened on r/wallstreetbets. https://i.imgflip.com/4vzgom.jpg
The CEO is correct. The only thing that might actually affect reddit would be if the major subs purged their entire subs, but I assume this would take time, and they'd probably intervene to stop it. It's one thing to replace the mods, a whole other to have to build the popular subs back up from scratch.
Realistically, nothing will change on reddit. It will keep getting shittier, but most people won't care and will continue using it. My hope is that places like Lemmy grow to bring in a more select crowd of users (i.e., they can actually figure out how to create an account and then use it; not exactly a high bar, but one that is too much for the 'common' user of most social media).
That seems a very typical "hands over ears going lalalalalalala" CEO type response. When a huge part of your userbase protests your changes, you would hope it would at least cause some discussion at a high level, perhaps a compromise. But for them to just stay the same course seems absurd. I suspect this will be one of the nails in the coffins of Reddit. It won't go out with a bang, but with a whimper.
Yeah more manageable community sizes should be better. It always felt true about the shouting into the void on subs with hundreds on comments and bots.
So far this has felt more like an upgraded discord chat.
He's not wrong. Reddit will survive, it might just be a bit different. But that's what they want anyway. They want to be the next Instagram or WhatsApp - locked down to the max. The people that are left don't care about openness or 3rd party apps.
I agree. It will survive. But it will change, even more so now. Fewer posts on the smaller specialist subreddits, and more posts on the wide defaults. Or perhaps, more "questions you could search the wiki for" posts on specialist subs, and fewer specialists hanging around to answer the same questions over and over.
They've managed to bring a wider audience in, and an audience less likely to block adverts I would bet. But it seems to be a bit of a race to the bottom. And there is always another bottom.
Yep, I've been looking for an alternative to all the tiresome karma whoring, my own included, for ages but every one, like voat, was ran by some right wing nutjob
The big fediverse advantage, is that nobody is stopping people setting up a platform.
The restriction on people being really shitty, is by other sites not federating with them. Which I think is really smart. The truly horrible places can exist, but they're self-restricted to only places that are willing to endorse their crap.
I know it will actually feel like a bereavement to some (not saying you specifically) but if it was all good at the time then was it not still worth it?
I'm sure reddit will continue for now, but with a lot less of use
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