So there you have it. Twitter under Elon is the inspiration for Reddit's new business vision. That explains so much of what we're seeing. #reddit
@absamma Spez is taking business inspiration from Musk, referring to the moderators as "landed gentry," going scorched earth on 3rd party devs, and speaking in a tone and cadence that is reminiscent of Donald Trump...
Goddamn, I hate this whole thing.
#redditwasfun
@Stalkholm @absamma I was gonna say the right-wing brain worms are all too real, but I'm starting to wonder if this is something else. Like some kind of callous disregard for community on a more profound level, the ultimate expression of "I got mine, fuck you, I'll do what I want." Not really motivated by any kind of political ideology so much as a vague sense of entitlement, persecution complex, and pettiness.
I'm bad at guessing why other people do the things they do, when it comes to his motive I have to take him at his word that he wants #reddit to be profitable.
The profit motive doesn't bother me, as far as ends go, turning a profit is a neutral one, it's the *means by which a business gets to those ends* that matters to me. I have a hard time believing that killing 3rd party apps is the only means, let alone the best means, to achieve that end.
@Legit_Spaghetti @absamma
TL;DR: I don't care as much about his motives as I do about his behavior, at least not while the proverbial bullets are still flying.
@Stalkholm @absamma I'm reminded of Goodhart's Law: When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure. If you have a success metric (number of bugs in a release), making that metric a target (Our goal: zero bugs in the next release) makes it a bad way to gauge success 'cause now you're focusing on making some number go up/down instead of doing what you originally set out to do.
Profit should be a MEASURE of success; it should be chased, but not at the expense of business health.