• patchymoose@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Huffman’s public reactions to Redditors’ outrage haven’t helped. While he once appeared even-keeled yet decisive while dealing with online mobs, he appears to have alienated a far wider swath of users by coming off as hard-nosed, condescending, and stubborn.

    This is the big thing that is different this time around, to me. His behavior, towards the community and towards developers, has become more aggressive amd openly hostile. I don’t know if his earlier “saving Reddit” moments emboldened him to the point of arrogance, or what.

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      1 year ago

      Hasn’t he almost always been like that? It just helped that it wasn’t aimed at users before, but either controversial people, or something that could at least be excused.

      His database-editing negative comments talking about him wasn’t anything less controversial, or indicative of a thick skin.

      It might be less his “saving Reddit”, and more Elon Musk and Twitter that might be doing it. He basically proved that as a billionaire CEO, you can waltz in and do whatever you like. Even if it’s unpopular, a big platform (like Twitter) isn’t going to implode immediately, so he can just squeeze out what money he can, and make out reasonably wealthy (or at least, that’s the idea), in spite of user unpopularity. “Saving Reddit” seems more like a flimsy justification.