I first saw the announcment in r/save3rdpartyapps (my only sub). The AMA is taking place at r/reddit, no time was given, just says “today”
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The AMA is live now: link
As usual, cherry picked questions get softball answers.
Not to mention that he continues to diss the developer behind Apollo.
That’s more than just a diss, blackmail accusations is rising to the level of libel. Spez is just being a shitbead Spez as always.
Where are the AMAs going to be for lemmy?
They say join us “here” so I’m assuming it is going to be the /r/reddit sub.
Yeah, I mean if we have AMA here where would they be, but I don’t know if that will actually happen…
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I’m guessing someone will create an AMA…uh…not sub…instance? I’m not familiar with lemmy terminology.
I’d be willing to host an AMA community. I’m federated with lemmy.one, so it’s certainly doable.
It’s going to be an absolute shitshow, I’ve already decided to sell my reddit account and delete sync so I’ll just be there to see the drama unfold before I quit reddit for good 👍
Well that was a disaster. Guess I’ll be spending time here now.
Me too. That AMA was a joke and made me want to uninstall Reddit.
You would think he would have come into this with at least a few canned answers to the most likely questions. It isn’t as if the concerns people have had been hidden; they were all out in the open and have been for days now. No excuse for him to be a deer in the headlights. He was either ignorant, or arrogant. Neither is forgivable in a CEO.
I mean they had canned answers, just not for anything the users are angry about. He said multiple times that they will be focussing on mod tooling, which they have been saying for 8 years now with very little progress. So even their canned message were hilariously bad.
“shit show” doesn’t even begin to cover it. Guess that explains why the various Lemmy servers are creaking under the load.
“Join our CEO tomorrow” Tomorrow is always tomorrow loophole incoming.
“AMA” has been up almost a half an hour and spez has responded a total of 5 times. Best AMA ever
This is going to be epic. I can’t believe how out of touch this guy is.
Money really messes with the ability to understand normal people.
It’s a banana, Michael, what can it cost, $10?
Sadly inflation means the scale banana is now about $14.50
Get the popcorn ready chaps!
It’ll be like a trainwreck in slow motion
I legitimately don’t understand what they’re hoping to gain from the AMA. Unless spez is going to start with “We were wrong, we’re rolling back the changes” then there’s nothing to be said. They ran over 3rd party apps that millions of their users use for no reason. This will be a total disaster.
They probably don’t understand how big this issue is and think it’s just a small number of nerds who don’t matter. I think they’re taking the community for granted.
Isn’t there a long long history of people thinking they can AMA their way out of a PR disaster and end up stepping in it?
Ohhhhhh, youbetcha!
There sure is, and I can’t wait to see it.
I think they’ll try to say they’ll improve the app’s accessibility, bot functionality, mod tools, something like that. It won’t work I bet
They’ve already said they’re focusing on the desktop app.
They get the stats, so they know how many users are using the various third party mobile apps. What they may not realize is how many of the moderators and content posters depend on third party apps.
Jokes on him, I no longer have access to my account. I’ve already moved.
I decided not to nuke my post/comment history as every once in awhile I get a reply on something from years ago, trouble shooting RPI or something with a certain linux distro or whatever, thanking me as they’d been searching for hours and my comment got them where they’re going.
I didn’t nuke my history, just deleted my handle so I couldn’t use it anymore. AFAIK the posts are still up, the username is just [deleted]
I’m waiting until the end of the month to do that, so my handle going away lines up with everything else going away.
We created value for the Reddit, so we’ll take that away by nuking activity.
Yep, that’s how it’ll be.
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This is the best internet drama I’ve seen in a long time.
I still get Digg emails.
