Steve Huffman said in an interview that Elon Musk’s cost-cutting at Twitter was inspiring and that the two have chatted “a handful of times.”

  • DarkGamer
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    Inspiring? Elon Musk’s cost cutting strategy was he just decided not to pay people, not to pay his landlord, not to pay his janitors, not to pay his hosting companies, not to pay many Twitter employees, and not to bother following laws, because, presumably, “fuck you, I’m a billionaire.” If that’s inspiring to spez, I’m feeling really good about leaving his platform. Aaron Swartz must be spinning in his grave so fast we could generate power from it.

  • snarfback
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    481 year ago

    Holy Shit - talk about being out of sync with your userbase and community…

    THAT statement might kill the heart of reddit as much as anything else.

    Next up: CEO of MSNBC wants to turn the unhoused populations of major cities into dog food and has a lot of respect for Ruppert Murdock’s journalistic integrity.

    • djtwatter
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      111 year ago

      Also this dumbass isn’t Elon. Say what you want about the guy but I think he’ll figure Twitter out. u/spez/ does not have that same ability.

      • undefined> Say what you want about the guy but I think he’ll figure Twitter out.

        You know you’re talking about the guy who literally asked people to print out all the code in twitter’s codebase, right?

      • I feel like there are still a lot of people on reddit, but most of the content creators have come to lemmy. So glad r/piracy posted a link or I wouldn’t have known about lemmy

  • FLOSSeveryday
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    181 year ago

    Imagine looking at an active dumpster fire and going “that’s what I want for my home!”

    • aegisgfx877
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      Hes just now showing us who he has always been. My guess is he shed all his PR people who were keeping him from looking like the right wing ahole he really is

  • Anarch157a
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    What baffles me is, how can someone who leads a media company be so out of touch with reality and current events ?

    Fellon Muskolini is defaulting on rent, created a literal toxic environment by cutting janitorial and cleaning services, stifled Google Cloud and AWS - two services he needs to keep the site working, destroyed the value of the company, made fun of a disabled Icelandic national hero, and this is just skimming the surface. Now /u/Spez come in public to say he admires all that incompetence ?

    There’s being oblivious and then there’s… whatever alternate-world insanity that goes inside his peanut brain.

    I was pretty fed up with Reddit and the many site issues and instabilities they were having in the last couple years, not to mention the level of discussions that had deteriorated significantly in the same time-frame. I had already stopped visiting, even deleted bookmarks to Reddit, all in favour of hanging out on Mastodon.

    I’m glad I did, because Mastodon opened my eyes to the sheer beauty of the Fediverse. Heck, I’ve been mucking around the Internet since nineteen-ninety-seven, and this federated stuff really brings back a little bit of that magic network of yore, full of weirdness and exploration, with actual discourse. The only thing missing are the “under construction” GIFs.

  • jrick
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    161 year ago

    elon only gets to do all of his crazy antics because he took the company private. but reddit is attempting to IPO? huh?

  • lixus98
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    161 year ago

    Of course, why would I expect more of these two assholes

  • GuyDudeman
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    151 year ago

    Ok, hear me out - what if both Spez and Elon are secretly fans of the fediverse, and are taking over the major social media sites and ruining them so that more people start using the fediverse?? What if that’s been the plan all along???

    • noodlejetski
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      61 year ago

      I did have that thought pop up for a few seconds every now and then during the huge Twitter migration, but Space Karen is nowhere near smart enough to plan something like that.

      • @Steeve@lemmy.ca
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        No, but now that the idea is out there he’ll definitely pretend that was his plan the entire time!

  • Tyson712
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    131 year ago

    That was really fast… Two weeks and the guy goes from quiet CEO to fuckboy destroying his own platform

    • flybynightpotato
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      91 year ago

      Like Elon, his big mistake was thinking he was smarter than he is and deciding to open his mouth thereby alerting the public to the fact that he’s very much not smart.

    • @bill_1992@lemmy.world
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      Reminds me of the saying, “it’s better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid, than open your mouth and remove all doubt”

  • plantstho
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    121 year ago

    Thought this seemingly-intentional bid to wreck the platform had a familiar smell

  • MonsieurHedge
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    111 year ago

    I wonder if Huffman is also a far right extremist? Would make sense with his “”“democratic”“” desire to strikebreak and his refusal to remove subreddits that spout hate speech.

  • DaGuys470
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    101 year ago

    So that’s where he got all those terrible business decisions from. Maybe he can sell flame throwers to bring in the lost money.