Screenshot included so you do not have to browse to it. Literally. I’m not even joking. The entire subreddit is 2 days old (founded immediately after the AMA) and populated+moderated exclusively by accounts less than 6 months old following standard generic name schemes and posting comments that reek of chatGPT generated responses.

This is the most hilarious, saddest, most obviously transparent attempt at propaganda astroturfing I have ever seen.

Spez. Get a bloody life, my dude.

  • zekiz@lemmy.ml
    14·
    2 years ago

    I just looked at their pinned post and it’s 100% satire and you’re a moron when you think otherwise

    What’s Not True

    1. Mr. Huffman has never lied or been dishonest. He has been 100% forward throughout this whole process.

    2. That apps “can’t afford” to pay the reasonable fees Mr. Huffman is requesting. Many of them are embroiled in inefficiency, and even the highest cited api costs on their part have still been well within reason.

    3. Mr. Huffman’s actions won’t “kill” reddit. In fact, the changes he id making are necessary to ensure that reddit continues to thrive.

    For all these reasons and many more, we at /r/FriendsofSpez #standwithhuffman, and you should too!

    • empireOfLoveOP
      3·
      2 years ago

      ah, no. Read some of the comments in the sub, I tried talking to a few, they are very much not parody.

      • quzyp@feddit.de
        6·
        2 years ago

        Look at numbers 4., 9. and 11. in your screenshot. Those are obvious jokes.

        Keep in mind that some people are really dedicated to their parodies, just look at the circlejerk subs.

  • Rega@lemmy.ml
    7·
    2 years ago

    Sub looks like a satire. I refuse to believe this people are legit

    • empireOfLoveOP
      4·
      2 years ago

      You joke, but Spez has been petty enough in the past to actively edit away comments that called him out from within the database itself. This is only the next natural extension and I would NOT put it past him.

    • masterX244@discuss.tchncs.de
      1·
      2 years ago

      Missing reply, can’t reply to it. Depending on how long he waits before messing with the DB it might be archived already. usually its captured after a few minutes. Once it survived a few hours its 99% guaranteed that its freezed into the wayback machine

  • Sousa@lemmy.world
    2·
    2 years ago

    It wouldn’t surprise me, I hope he enjoys Reddit by himself with all his other 105 friends of spez.

  • misterhuh@lemmy.ml
    2·
    2 years ago

    If that’s true, it’s one of the saddest most pathetic display of narcissistic behavior I’ve ever seen.

  • Cralex
    2·
    2 years ago

    What the actual heck?! I can’t vouch for who’s behind it, but this is real and it’s weeeeird!

    • CralexEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      Not only does the place act like a delusional bot posting spree, but it’s seriously toxic over there.

  • Pekka@feddit.nl
    2·
    2 years ago

    Let’s indeed deprecate old Reddit :p But maybe wait a bit until Lemmy can handle even more users.

        • CmdrShepard
          1·
          2 years ago

          I still have mine saved too just incase someone with a time machine goes back and corrects the timeline. /r/OpenSignups was good if you want to get into private trackers but with the whole reddit thing going on that might not be a viable option…

  • Nymphioxetine@beehaw.org
    1·
    2 years ago

    I’m with @LinkOpensChest.wav

    This just has to be some kind of shitposting troll. No way Spez is not self-aware enough to do this