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 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
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.
Well that's companies for you. The worst part is the people who actually admire these people for it. People support musk, spez, next we'll be seeing people take the studios side and call for the writers strike to end.
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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.
Ahh, but he could buy the business of someone who WAS smart enough to plan something like that, and then run it into the ground. See... maybe the board of Twitter knew that the fediverse was going to eat their lunch eventually anyway, so they might as well get the golden parachute while selling out to the guy who will accelerate the process?
He likes what Elon has done to twitter? Reddit's screwed. He thinks Elon made good financial decisions with twitter? Huffman's screwed too. Elon is so rich that we might never know how much financial damage he's done to twitter. Huffman doesn't have that safety net.
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.
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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