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”
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.
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.
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?
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.
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
I want to see it but at the same time I know I will regret it. The last time he never answered straight and avoided tough questions. It’s not going to be different this time. I would love to be proven wrong though.
Edit: called it
I read several comments claiming the ceo edited other people’s comments and changed downvotes to upvotes during the last ama.
Probably a waste of time.
Yup it happened, back in 2016 during the elections. He edited comments (and posts I think) in r/the_donald, people originally said “f*ck spez” and he edited them with the moderators usernames. Things like that.
https://www.theverge.com/2016/11/23/13739026/reddit-ceo-steve-huffman-edit-comments
Now, let me just say that I am aware of how toxic that sub was, but regardless spez opened a bad precedent
Maybe we should get the lemmy server hosts to also do an ama, not to throw shade or anything (alright maybe a little)
“Today”. Ah yes, a definite time. A well planned and definitely going to be productive AMA and not just a crazy panic-post after they realize that they fucked up super, super, super, SUUUUPER bad by literally having their own CEO falsely accusing 3rd party devs of blackmail, WHEN THERE WERE RECORDINGS.
Spez is, as usual, being an absolute buffoon. Nothing new under the sun.
The worst part about not setting a time is that I don’t know when to start making popcorn.
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.
“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.
It’s a banana, Michael, what can it cost, $10?
Money really messes with the ability to understand normal people.
This is the best internet drama I’ve seen in a long time.
The AMA is already over
Yeah, I posted this 3 days ago. I doubt if an AMA lasts for days.
It’ll be like a trainwreck in slow motion
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Well, that went pretty good …
The funny thing is Spez probably thinks this is good optics like he’s proving he’s ready to interact with the users, but we all know the entire thing is going to be a fucking peloton spin class in telling everyone to fuck themselves