Reddit activated a word filter that whenever you say "fuck spez", your comment won't show up for anyone else. I just tested it on ModCoord. they're also deleting spez memes from the subs they nuked lol

r/ModCoord: The admins in charge of demodded subreddits are mass-removing images of Huffman previously shared on them

the OP asked how are they gonna remove them all, so I replied they'll run a query for terms like "fuck spez". only to find my comment invisible, because they're already blocking it. spez protective word filter, it's active right now.

omnislayer88,

jan spez li ike mute. A little longer but gets the job done

pollodiabolo,

they're getting crazier and crazier by the hour. spez is executing order 66

Realtrain,

The board must be getting tired of this by now. He's showing that he doesn't know how to handle their user base.

wafer,

I fear the board is just as deluded as he is.

lka1988,

I'm pretty sure the board is behind this and using spez as their whipping boy.

gk99,

Just before IPO.

Right after announcing that reddit isn't profitable and his solution is a PR disaster over 3% of site traffic.

EvilColeslaw,
EvilColeslaw avatar

At this rate he'll be in a bunker next week claiming mods have taken over the Reddit headquarters.

GuyDudeman,
@GuyDudeman@beehaw.org avatar

He does have a bunker. He's a prepper: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/01/30/doomsday-prep-for-the-super-rich

davysnavy,

Haha what an absolute loser

snacht,

God Huffman comes across as such a insufferable fuckwit in that article.

kraiden,

As a kiwi...

Dear rich American assholes... Fuck off

Thanks

argv_minus_one, (edited )

Those bunkers, if activated, will be their tombs. They'll be killed and eaten by their own security guards once the collapse of society renders their wealth meaningless.

The best place to be in a nuclear war is ground zero.

DmMacniel,

The dynasty opens fire 66,60:00

Tencha,

What if you use his real name, Steve Huffman?

Durandal,
Durandal avatar

f̶͉̹̽u̴̢̫̰̅͑c̶̟͊̈͝ḳ̵͇̇̒͂ͅ ̷̳̮́s̸̭̼̞̈́̃p̸̆͐ͅͅe̴̻̮̯̾͑̄z̶̒ͅ

ThesePaycheckAvenging,

Fuck spez. See? Got no power here.

mac12m99,

Fuck u/s​pez (invisible character inside) @OP, try this 😂

z3n0x,

This is the way

rr7, (edited )

f̶͉̹̽u̴̢̫̰̅͑c̶̟͊̈͝ḳ̵͇̇̒͂ͅ ̷̳̮́s̸̭̼̞̈́̃p̸̆͐ͅͅe̴̻̮̯̾͑̄z̶̒ͅ

oryx,
@oryx@lemmy.world avatar

Unexpected Marathon

Nepenthe,
Nepenthe avatar

Oh goodness, could you even write a filter for zalgo? I don't think you could

innrautha,

Run the text through a normalizer that strips combining characters then run your filter.

Trebach,

There are characters that have two or three combining diacritic marks already included, so if you start with one of those, it'll make it harder to filter out.

argv_minus_one,

That's what the normalizer is for. Normalize to NFD, strip combiners, map homoglyphs to ASCII, and look for ASCII “fuck spez”.

Ostermac,

So he is the new Elon Musk when it comes to fragile ego?

jalda,
jalda avatar

"free speech absolutist"

kubica,
kubica avatar

almost read it as abolitionist

redcalcium,

"free speech for me, not for thee" absolutist

KingGordon,

The best c/agedlikemilk ever

ArugulaZ,
ArugulaZ avatar

But no saying "cisgender!" You'll trigger him!

dominoko,
dominoko avatar

He looks up to Musk so....yeah.

zebus,
zebus avatar

People would think a CEO is too rich and important to get personally involved with this, but I swear reading the shill comments and how personal they take things makes me think spez himself is behind them pounding on his keyboard all day lol

AbyssalChord,

People would think a CEO is too rich and important to get personally involved with this

Nah, Musk already breached that barrier a while ago.

PropagandaBots,
PropagandaBots avatar

After everybody saw Elon on Twitter, I'm surprised people didn't think this would happen.

redcalcium,

Imagine being a CEO of a social media company, saw what Elon Musk did to Twitter, and said to yourself "I want to do that".

smokinjoe,
smokinjoe avatar

By spez's own account, it would appear that he's been influenced by elon's pettiness and his thin as wet toilet paper, skin.

Cube6392,

How tf you watch Elon wreck twitter and say "I want that for me"

CrimsonOnoscopy,

It makes sense if what you value is control and domination, and not - say - profits or social good.

BaldProphet,
BaldProphet avatar

Wouldn't surprise me, he certainly has the time for it. The average real workload for a CEO is vanishingly small.

OofShoot,
@OofShoot@beehaw.org avatar

Remember, Elon Musk is CEO of FOUR companies. It's not a particularly demanding job.

z3n0x,

Spez Wars: Return Of The Keyboard-Warrior

Katharta,

fuck spez

AdvocateDoogy,
AdvocateDoogy avatar

Spez will also suspend your account if it has spez in the name

Infiltrated_ad8271,
Infiltrated_ad8271 avatar

Is this something new? Is the same thing happening with the rest of the admins?

argv_minus_one, (edited )

Sure enough, /u/DeliciousPez is indeed suspended.

See also the Scunthorpe problem.

Ronno,
Ronno avatar

Ah shit, I was about to claim SpezialRedditOperazion

ki77erb,

That's a good one!

elvith,

u/FuckSpezialOperation approves

steelydan,
steelydan avatar

watch as spez goes full Elon Musk

jalda,

Never go full Elon Musk

Sir_Digby,
Sir_Digby avatar

@johnson_waters The decision is so unpopular that they’re censoring users, which is preferable to accommodating their users to them. Despicable!

SkyNTP,

Reddit doesn't owe the users anything. Reddit users are cattle, to be sold to the real customer: advertisers and data harvesters. It's a fucking factory farm.

ApeCavalryArt,
ApeCavalryArt avatar

None of these techbro ghouls are your friend:
https://web.archive.org/web/20230618213937/https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/01/30/doomsday-prep-for-the-super-rich

Echostorm,
Echostorm avatar

There seems to be always more to hate about spez. What an egotistical jackass

pizzadreams,

Wow 👀 I thought the doomsday prepper stuff was hearsay. This needs to be more visible.

loutr,
@loutr@sh.itjust.works avatar

Wow what a bunch of assholes.

“I think people who are particularly attuned to the levers by which society actually works understand that we are skating on really thin cultural ice right now.”

And why would you think that'd be, Mr Former Facebook Product Manager?

somethingspecial,

Every so often I think “well every company is shit so why not go back to the communities I love on Reddit”. Then another thing like this surfaces and it reinforces my boycott.

A lot of people send me Reddit links. Is there any way to load them without actually visiting the site? Like a mirror or archive?

asjmcguire,
asjmcguire avatar

https://teddit.net/

vtez44,

You can also use LibRedirect addon to redirect Reddit/Twitter/etc automatically to alternative frontends.

nodsocket,

That uses the reddit API

Exusgu,

The devs are working on alternative ways to access at the moment, hopefully they manage in time.

https://github.com/libreddit/libreddit/issues/818

Kofad,

Interesting. Does it rely on the API? It just states "All requests go through the backend" but if this got popular, wouldn't it eventually hit the same API call limit apps are facing?

vtez44,

You have also other privately run instances, you can check the list on Github or somewhere else

yote_zip,
@yote_zip@pawb.social avatar

They could just scrape the HTML if they wanted instead of using API.

cHk_,

Have saw this front end mentioned someware. Didn't tried it though.

LibReddit

NUL,

Bad move to use reddit in a name for a product that is nearly identical to the other company's product which has a trademark on the name.

Jim_Greece,

What a crybaby! Truth hurts.

34,

It is nice to see kbin engagement continues to grow, less than 10 hours for this post to reach 1000 upvotes.

stylishboar,

What a sensitive baby

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