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Spez loves Musk apparently.
/u/spez idolizes Musk and copies what he does, that’s all there is to it.
I think you’re probably right but “that’s all there is to it” is a bit disingenuous unless you know something I don’t.
I don’t get why you’d think @Temperche is being disingenuous.
Because I haven’t seen and they haven’t provided any proof of that
Okay, but maybe don’t jump straight to calling someone a liar just because they don’t provide proof in their casual comment?
You didn’t provide proof in your comment about Reddit losing VC funding due to interest rates, but that doesn’t mean you’re trying to mislead us.
Okay well…I didn’t call them a liar so…what the fuck are you even on about?
Sorry for the confusion, I think that’s what disingenuous normally means.
Maybe you meant something else though.
That’s not at all what it means.
I’m willing to believe you, but when I googled I got the definition in my link, which is what I thought it meant.
Can you maybe tell me what you meant so next time I see someone call someone that, I can bear in mind it has more than one meaning?
Nothing about the definition you posted implies a lie.
Dishonest and insincere speech isn’t lying?
Okay I don’t really see the distinction, but I don’t think @Temperche is being dishonest or insincere either.
Anyway, thanks for explaining.
I’ve heard that moneied interests are paying Twitter and now reddit behind the scenes to ruin their respective communities. It’s because every time something happens that shakes the foundation of who’s in charge, it’s always a social media coordinated public effort behind the push for change. The most recent one I can think of is the Twitter-fueled women’s rights movement in Iran. Or even the push to get progressive names like AOC elected.
So now we have rich interests paying CEOs to sabotage their own companies in order to better maintain the status quo.
I know this concept falls squarely into conspiracy theory territory, but with Twitter and reddit, both once bastions of progressive organization, going to shit at the same time, and threads popping up with the messaging that they explicitly want to avoid news and politics, you can’t help but wonder if there’s a concentrated effort behind the scenes to break up communities that are actually starting to make a difference.
I mean what makes far more sense is that interests rates have skyrocketed, which means VC money dried up, which means these platforms that haven’t made money in over a decade suddenly have to figure out how to run themselves.
It’s not just Reddit and Twitter, it’s YouTube and Twitch also.
It also might have something to do with the people running the show are now being tasked with real work and it turns out they aren’t good at their job.
Yeah I think this is the Occam’s razor explanation that makes more sense. And why might Reddit be doing such a similar thing so soon after twitter? Spez has said he’s in touch with Elon and admires his business decisions. Simple as that.
Do you have even 1 source to back up that outlandish statement?
Reddit CEO praises Elon Musk’s cost-cutting as protests rock the platform