Spez is the biggest fediverse advocate, he did something noone else managed to, popularize lemmy
(only half joking, he’s really bringing a lot of people here)
If I had known Lemmy existed, I would have been here a couple years ago, but thanks to spez I’m here today!
(edit: fixed misspelling)
For real. Reddit has been shit since 2016, and every year it gets worse and worse. It’s nice to be here, I haven’t heard one mention of a Disney product since joining!
If only there was an AMA community moderator that could help him out… oh wait they got jeolous of her populatirty and fired her.
Wait, what? I somehow managed to miss that apparently. Pretty sad all the same :/
It was quite a long while ago. This post was her finally coming up for air some months after all the hullabaloo.
That was before spez came back though. And it was kn0thing that demanded it. Pretty dramatic at the time.
I’ve been on Reddit over 17 years now. Shame what they are doing but it’s been pretty downhill after the Boston Bomber fiasco and them changing their front page algo to whitelist only and artificial delays to avoid the giant witch-hunts that happened then.
https://np.reddit.com/r/self/comments/3clu3i/hi_everyone_victoria_here/
I had never even heard about the Boston Bombings till now (or I don’t remember it, not an American), but damn, that whole situation got all kinds of messed up. I can understand wanting the perpetrators being brought to justice, but slandering random people who bear a minor resemblance to a suspect makes no sense to me.
Out of curiosity, how should the admins have reacted the witch-hunts in your opinion? I’ve never really used the old frontpage or r/popular so I’m not very familiar with how their usage would be affected tbh.
I don’t think they reacted incorrectly tbh. The thing of it was that this was one of the first times it became “mainstream” and was mentioned in MSM on the likes of CNN. So it brought an influx of users, more so than past surges. This overall the culture changed quite a lot.
Prior you could use Reddit as a news source. In fact MSM was using stuff trending there to “break” news to larger audiences. They did similar with Boston…and got it wrong.
Overall once that happened it shined a spotlight on the site. And some of the unsavory subreddits were reported on. But more importantly witch hunts became MUCH more prevalent. Anyone feeling slighted would try and engage Reddit to harass people. And more and more joined.
There were times where this happened before. It happened to a user named Saydrah in the earlier days who was a mod of some subreddit. But it was much more prevalent and frankly dangerous. Instead of sending pizzas to a house it was all night harassment and death threats.
So the admins started curating the main page. Making sure the likes of creepshots subreddits werent there. Or super emergent news wasn’t there, because the Chris Dorner thing didn’t help either. Overall it just changed the culture from one of a series of communities to something a bit more…risky.
Hell I have had people that disagreed with my stances around that time. Thankfully I practiced some basic opsec, but they certainly harassed some poor person thinking it was me. It’s made me very cagey about being online and frankly being honest with my opinions that may be less….mainstream.
Obligatory fuck spez
I don’t know who spez is. I’m gathering from all the posts (s)he is some sort of reddit representative, and everybody hates them. Can you expand on this please?
HOLY SMOKES. /u/spez accidentally copied the “A:” in one of his replies (it’s now edited out), but someone got an archive 😂😂😂😂😂 https://archive.ph/X6EJq
Transparency completely failed
Not defending that joke of an AMA or joke of a CEO, I think it’s reasonable that he’ll have a few prepared answers about expected topics (accessibility in this case) and copy/paste it into the chat. Now why he still manage to answer only a dozen question is, well, a good question…
