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

Ostermac, 11 months ago

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

jalda, 11 months ago

"free speech absolutist"

kubica, 11 months ago

almost read it as abolitionist

redcalcium, 11 months ago

"free speech for me, not for thee" absolutist

KingGordon, 11 months ago

The best c/agedlikemilk ever

ArugulaZ, 11 months ago

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

dominoko, 11 months ago

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

Durandal, 11 months ago

f̶͉̹̽u̴̢̫̰̅͑c̶̟͊̈͝ḳ̵͇̇̒͂ͅ ̷̳̮́s̸̭̼̞̈́̃p̸̆͐ͅͅe̴̻̮̯̾͑̄z̶̒ͅ

ThesePaycheckAvenging, 11 months ago

Fuck spez. See? Got no power here.

mac12m99, 11 months ago

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

z3n0x, 11 months ago

This is the way

rr7, 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago)

f̶͉̹̽u̴̢̫̰̅͑c̶̟͊̈͝ḳ̵͇̇̒͂ͅ ̷̳̮́s̸̭̼̞̈́̃p̸̆͐ͅͅe̴̻̮̯̾͑̄z̶̒ͅ

oryx, 11 months ago

Unexpected Marathon

Nepenthe, 11 months ago

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

innrautha, 11 months ago

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

Trebach, 11 months ago

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, 11 months ago

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

pollodiabolo, 11 months ago

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

Realtrain, 11 months ago

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, 11 months ago

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

lka1988, 11 months ago

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

gk99, 11 months ago

Just before IPO.

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

EvilColeslaw, 11 months ago

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

GuyDudeman, 11 months ago

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

davysnavy, 11 months ago

Haha what an absolute loser

snacht, 11 months ago

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

kraiden, 11 months ago

As a kiwi...

Dear rich American assholes... Fuck off

Thanks

argv_minus_one, 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago)

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, 11 months ago

The dynasty opens fire 66,60:00

lixus98, 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago)

Wow, seems like spez is from the same breed as Elon "Thin-skinned" Musk, no surprises there really. I love to imagine how hurt he is because everyone is saying that to him lol.

McBinary, 11 months ago

He probably finally googled himself and found the 32 million instances of "fuck spez" that pop up.

S_H_K, 11 months ago

I'm new here and I'm not entirely sure what "boost" does but whatever it does I think this needs it.

lixus98, 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago)

"boost" is a mastodon term, it's used there as a "retweet" so you just basically "retweeted" the comment, this only shows up on the "Microblog" tab.

SevFTW, 11 months ago

Finally? That egomaniac probably googles himself after waking up and 5 more times throughout the day

Nepenthe, 11 months ago

He has a live feed built into the wall of his shower so he can pretend he isn't crying while he scrolls

can, 11 months ago

Don't humanize him

Huschke, 11 months ago

It's down to 300.000 for me. Google can't index Reddit that fast, can it?

Do you have safe search disabled?

McBinary, 11 months ago

Of course. After a fresh install, safe search lasts for about 1.5 searches until I realize it's on. 😆

Kichae, 11 months ago

Yeah, spez has shown himself to actually hold Muskrat in high regard, even as he's breaking contracts left and right and being evicted from offices. It's painfully obvious that Elon's purposefully and maliciously breaking rental agreements to get out of his leases, and it's going to lead to lawsuits.

This is whose business sense spez is publicly praising. It's clear who and what he sees as inspiration.

Kowowow, 11 months ago

Might be fun to start fbombing musk instead to get around the filter for now then

Da_Boom, 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago)

Damn, that MSNBC post stinks of corpo talk. Sure it shows how he hold musk in high regard, but I hate the way it describes the API pricing debacle and the protests.. it's getting the reasoning all wrong - as if we give a shit about AI companies?

borkcorkedforks, 11 months ago

I think it's worse than that. He is just an Elon simp that happened to find some amount of success and accidentally became CEO of something.

zebus, 11 months ago

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, 11 months ago

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, 11 months ago

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

redcalcium, 11 months ago

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, 11 months ago

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, 11 months ago

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

CrimsonOnoscopy, 11 months ago

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

BaldProphet, 11 months ago

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

OofShoot, 11 months ago

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

z3n0x, 11 months ago

Spez Wars: Return Of The Keyboard-Warrior

TinyPizza, 11 months ago

There will be no dissent on the front page of the internet!

millions, 11 months ago

EGO BLAST ACTIVATE

somethingspecial, 11 months ago

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, 11 months ago

https://teddit.net/

vtez44, 11 months ago

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

nodsocket, 11 months ago

That uses the reddit API

Exusgu, 11 months ago

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, 11 months ago

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, 11 months ago

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

yote_zip, 11 months ago

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

cHk_, 11 months ago

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

LibReddit

NUL, 11 months ago

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.

brianshatchet, 11 months ago

Definitely looks like they are managing their priorities well... /s

AdvocateDoogy, 11 months ago

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

Infiltrated_ad8271, 11 months ago

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

argv_minus_one, 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago)

Sure enough, /u/DeliciousPez is indeed suspended.

See also the Scunthorpe problem.

Ronno, 11 months ago

Ah shit, I was about to claim SpezialRedditOperazion

ki77erb, 11 months ago

That's a good one!

elvith, 11 months ago

u/FuckSpezialOperation approves

Jo, 11 months ago

It's time we grow up and behave like an adult company

Uh huh.

LunarTick, 11 months ago

This is my tinfoil hat most likely, but I've also noticed a number of comments critical of Reddit that can only be downvoted. Upvotes error out. Official app for info.

NoIWontPickaName, 11 months ago

No tin foil needed say they're also using Bots to promote and support spez and downvote everything else negative about Reddit

Endorkend, 11 months ago

There's also a whole lot of gaslighting responses that pretend everything is roses and sunshine and the mods are being bitches.

Two accounts I'm tracking appear to have been dormant for years (while existing for 10+ years) and only now joining into the fray to defend reddit and spaz.

NotTheOnlyGamer, 11 months ago

Publicly dormant <> inactive. They could have been lurking on subs without sharing their subscriptions, votes, etc. This might just have been the thing that finally pissed them off

BigVault, 11 months ago

That fragile little cunt.....

drinkleadsoup, 11 months ago

His fragility is showing.

Bishma, 11 months ago

Competition time: Who can come up with the best "Fuck Spez" ASCII art that will display correctly in reddit commits.