He’s deeply fallen into the Zero-Sum trap, where someone else’s gain is automatically a loss for him.
Third party apps probably grew the Reddit pie, and didn’t cost Reddit to develop and maintain, but all he can see is less pie for him.
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(Just now) none-other than the founder of DailyKos weighs in…
… one of the most disastrous interviews of the year. In short? He wants to do to Reddit what Elon Musk did to Twitter. Let’s go through this Huffman interview with NBC News, because it beggars belief.
Twitter owner Elon Musk may have had an influence on Reddit’s CEO ahead of changes to the website that have resulted in a user-led rebellion on the platform.
Reddit is breaking? Of course Musk had something to do with it…
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I’ve seen complaints that the Lemmy developers are tankies, and that this could be a problem outside their instance of lemmy.ml. 
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oi. Is there nowhere to blithely discover how folks got a library update to nvidia to boot without encountering some troglodytic philosophy?? (“uhm… no. cuz one out of seventeen are jerks.”) -sigh-
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While Mr. Huffman is talking about business owners, has anyone pointed out that business owners pay the people doing work for their businesses?
How valuable will a Reddit IPO be if he drives away the moderators and content creators that keep Reddit from being an empty discussion board or a cesspool of spam, hate speech, and other garbage?
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This is me, to the t. I used to mod a popular subreddit, gave that up when real life got too busy, and then followed your exact trajectory in the same year. Never looked back.
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Absolutely. I’m actually still on Facebook because my field of scholarship is mostly made up of boomers, and that is where they gather, but I only really use groups there. I don’t remember when I last posted something to my wall. I was never on Twitter (or TikTok) and my engagement with Instagram is sporadic at best.
The things I used to post to social media I now post exclusively to group chats with friends or to small Discord servers.
That said, I suppose TikTok still counts as social media, and that is far from dying. And at least in Europe, Telegram has morphed from a WhatsApp-like communication tool into a group -based social media app. Mostly among anti-vaxxers and the far right. So that counts, maybe.
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Friendica, which I’m running as a single-user federated instance, is supposed to be a Facebook replacement. The only problem is, I have no idea what that means, since I’ve never used Facebook! 
(No special preference for Freiendica, It uses the same LAMP stack as Mediawiki, so it was easy to squeeze it in.)
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It absolutely isn’t just you. I await the new era of anti-social media!
Also, there’s zero reason to expect Reddit to actually develop those tools, to do so in a timely fashion, and those tools to actually be worth shit.
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Corporate-owned social media seems to be hitting a dead end as proper paid moderation is too expensive to scale, and removing moderation leads to a twitter style awfulness spiral.
It would be amazing if something open source could take its place. The spiritual predecessor to reddit was open source usenet, even before yahoogroups and googlegroups. Usenet turned into a dumpster fire due to lack of moderation, but if it had a reddit-style volunteer moderator system, it could have been great.
All we really need is a widely recognized standard for interchanging social media posts, and anyone can build a UI front end. Easy /s.
Then there is the issue of how to pay for it without becoming beholden to advertisers. Someone is going to finally figure out how to do micropayments. Paying a few cents for bandwidth every time I use social media would be well worth it to leave the advertisers behind. For those that prefer ads over payment, there would surely be services that allow people to accumulate “just in time” micropayment credits by accepting ads as needed.
We can dream, right?
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“Long story short, my takeaway from Custer at Little Bighorn is that cavalry charges can be a great strategy for us” 
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I suspect that Musk is absolute catnip if you are tech management uncomfortably hanging out at the intersection of ressentiment and entitlement.
Anyone telling themselves or others that he’s affirming or inspiring as a business case is delusional or lying; but when grappling with the unpleasant discovery that one’s much-vaunted abilities are not sufficient to get you what you think you deserve the example of someone who responds to that with pure bloody-minded willingness to burn everything down, untainted by even a shred of decency or doubt, must look a lot like efficacy.
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