it is genuinely hard to believe how it could have gone worse

  • animist@lemmy.one
    191·
    2 years ago

    I’m surprised spez didn’t just decide to drop the n-word at some point

  • new_world@kbin.social
    12·
    2 years ago

    Honestly I think it could have gone much worse. CEO of tech company being a douche has got be one of the top 3 requirements for the job.

    • bionicjoey@lemmy.ca
      10·
      2 years ago

      CEO of a tech company about to go public berates users and declares his company is not turning a profit

    • darkmugglet@lemm.ee
      10·
      2 years ago

      I interviewed at Reddit a few years ago and found the arrogance and smugness to be off putting. I went from wanting to work for Reddit to thinking I dodged a bullet. The culture I was exposed to made me think they are all douches. They definitely thought they were changing the world and the arbiters of democracy. In my experience that sort of thinking comes from the top.

    • darkmugglet@lemm.ee
      5·
      2 years ago

      Naw, he’s banking on the hope that we are all addicted and the draw of Reddit means this will blow over. In all reality, the average Redditor won’t come to Lemmy or one of the alternatives. Like what happened to Digg, until an alt has critical mass, they won’t leap. What Spez doesn’t realize is that he is creating the space for innovation to happen.

    • oryx@lemmy.world
      4·
      2 years ago

      He’ll just ignore it because he doesn’t believe any of this matters at all. He just sees it as more money in his pockets.

  • laxe@lemmy.ca
    9·
    2 years ago

    What did /u/spez mean by “his joke” when referring to apollo creator in one of the ama comments?

    • reddit_refugee@lemmy.ml
      17·
      2 years ago

      You can read the whole call transcript here: https://gist.github.com/christianselig/fda7e8bc5a25aec9824f915e6a5c7014

      Basically, Christian initially says:

      I could make it really easy on you, if you think Apollo is costing you $20 million per year, cut me a check for $10 million and we can both skip off into the sunset. Six months of use. We’re good. That’s mostly a joke.

      And then you can read the misunderstanding that follows and the apologies because of the misunderstanding.

  • Darkbitslike@lemmy.world
    7·
    2 years ago

    Don’t worry, it’ll only get worse from here. And if you think there’s no way it’s getting worse then he would somehow find a way to make it worse that no one could ever figure out.