Remember when Spez said it was “It’s time we grow up and behave like an adult company”? Apparently, that means paying himself $193 million and single-handedly tanking Reddit’s profitability right b…::undefined

  • db2@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1282·
    1 year ago

    The truth is he’s a jealous little turd of a person. The other reddit founders, the ones with brains and skills, got out early and got paid. Even the dead one was more successful. He wants to drain reddit of money while tanking it. He thinks he’s entitled. It’s a real shame he reproduced too, the poor kid is doomed with a godawful role model like that.

    • Evilcoleslaw@lemmy.worldEnglish
      461·
      1 year ago

      Ohanion was also a fucking prick, shitting up the company while he was there. All the Ellen Pao stuff and the r/IAMA clusterfuck that led to the first big Reddit shutdown? Yeah that was all Ohanion’s doing. Then he let Pao take all the heat for his decisions and get ousted.

        • Radical Dog@lemmy.worldEnglish
          259·
          1 year ago

          The myth of Aaron Swartz continues…

          He was a big proponent of free speech absolutism. He’d have been more than happy with the jailbait subs, watchpeopledie, fatpeoplehate etc. I really don’t think he deserves a free pass just because Reddit wasn’t enshittifying while he was around, as it was in a growth phase. It had other problems which needed resolution.

          • BlanketsWithSmallpox@lemmy.worldEnglish
            3·
            1 year ago

            WPD has it’s place and there was nowhere on the internet that was nearly as sanitized as it was on reddit compared to other gore sites.

            That morbid curiosity in my twenties helped me through a lot.

            • Radical Dog@lemmy.worldEnglish
              2·
              1 year ago

              I guess it’s the one I care least about that I listed. Substitute in the overtly racist subreddits, if you wish, as they surely didn’t deserve a platform.

          • db2@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            You have to admit that comparatively he was the least rotten apple in that basket though.

    • LillyPip@lemmy.caEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      Didn’t he make that decision after fanboying with Elon Musk?

      The reason these people are so rich is they’re sociopaths willing to grind their users to dust and sift their cremains through a sieve for their elemental nutrients. As a user experience designer, it’s abhorrent to watch, especially since I cared so much and had to give up my career. People like Musk and Hoffman making so much by exploiting people makes me incredibly angry.

      The wrong people have money.

      • Serinus@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        SBF did good things with his money.

        And all HE had to do to get that money was run the world’s biggest ponzi scheme.