“The protest, what it really affects is the everyday users, most of whom aren’t involved in this or the changes that spurred this,” Huffman said. But the reason they’re protesting is because Huffman’s own decision to effectively cut off their API makes it more difficult to participate.Īnd, again, this kind of waving away the protest is insulting: Of course the greater Reddit community just wants to participate. ![]() I mean, the second part is correct, of course. “But I think the greater Reddit community just wants to participate with their fellow community members.” We made a business decision that upset them,” Huffman told NPR in his first interview since nearly 9,000 subreddits staged a 48-hour boycott. “It’s a small group that’s very upset, and there’s no way around that. We’ll start with the interview he did with NPR which is just dripping with entitlement.įirst he dismisses this as a “business decision” that some users didn’t like: After his disastrous AMA helped inspire more subreddits to join a 48 hour blackout, and his dismissal of the protesting subreddits as something not worth paying attention to resulted in many subreddits extending their protests indefinitely, Huffman apparently thought it would make sense to go do a bunch of interviews and insult the protesting mods some more. ![]() Steve Huffman, the CEO of Reddit, has decided to just keep on talking. ![]() Fri, Jun 16th 2023 09:30am - Mike Masnick
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