STOP saying “fuck u/spez” START saying “FIRE STEVE HUFFMAN”

Lmao you sweet summer child. You think firing him will do shit? The company has cancer. They are trying to go public. Nothing is going to fix whats wrong with the company now. It's terminal.

This is how it goes.

Company makes good product.
Company goes public.
Company becomes shit.
Company dies.

Rinse and repeat.

I prefer Join Lemmy.

STOP trying to convince yourself that this is a saveable situation START getting on with life away from Reddit

It doesn't really matter who corporate shill runs reddit, reddit is already over the edge that they only care about what is under the line. Fediverse is the future!

We've been down this road before

Remember when Ellen Pao was the worst thing to ever happen to the world and was killing reddit with her... rules against revenge porn and blatant hate boards?

Remember how reddit "capitulated" and did what the community wanted and got rid of her? Hmm, who was it they replaced her with?

Reddit is preparing for an IPO and likely a buyout. The absolute best way the new owners can "win" is to solve all problems by getting rid of the current evil CEO, maybe rolling back one of the dozens of horrifically bad policy changes, and then calling it a win. Huffman gets a golden parachute and reddit is super happy and wonderful again.

If you are naive confident enough that a call for action will be listened to: Call for action regarding policies, not figureheads.

I said bye, now I say “Lemmy’s pretty cool”.

how about we stop talking about reddit and enjoy lemmy instead?

“fuck u/spez” means absolutely nothing to anyone who isn’t familiar with Reddit, it’s just noise.

And "Fire Steve Huffman means absolutely nothing to anyone who doesn't know reddit CEO's name.

I'll go for an easier one: Fuck reddit, join lemmy. Easy and clear, and I'm not sure reddit would get any better with its CEO fired, they'll likely find someone similar.

You want reddit to get better

I want reddit to fucking die

We are not the same

just stop using reddit and move to alternative site like lemmy.

If you look into the history of "fuck /u/Spez" this is the comment(s) that he edited way back when. It's an eternal reminder of the bullshit that he's pulled in the past. The Streisand Effect in all its glory.

I swear some Lemmy users are worse than that overly attached gf meme.

Get off Reddit and stop talking about reddit.

If you're going to say anything, help guide folks out of the dumpster fire. Direct some more content this way.

Who gives a fuck what happens to / what people think of Reddit's CEO.

Reddit should die. And people should come here. I want more instances and communities developing here. Right now I have to hope between reddit and here for some communities. Steve Huffman can go and suck dick.

I'd rather just say to migrate to Lemmy, there's always going to be a Steve Huffman, but with Lemmy it's either impossible or incredibly difficult.

Even firing him he would receive Ellen Pao treatment and put another puppet.

Instead of "fuck u/spez" use "reddit is dead" or "join Lemmy".

It's too late for that. The entire culture at that site is now fucked. Just encourage your friends to join lemmy and tell them to do the same.

yeah. totally gonna fix reddit but posting shit on it.

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The best thing to do, is ignoring r/place. If we give reddit our attention they can continue, if not they're nothing.

The one thing Musk and Spez have successfully done is make themselves scapegoats that leave people believing that everything will be resolved once they leave, so people have hope since there's a "clear solution."

These issues run much deeper than the individual owners and CEOs though, it's the rot of the companies and platforms themselves, and getting rid of those people will solve absolutely nothing.

What needs to happen is for people to just switch off and help grow alternative platforms away from corporate meddling. Will it ever become mainstream? Maybe not, but it will never happen if people never try and just give up.

Yeah but you're still interacting with the site, getting ad eyeballs and adding to the user engagement stats.

If you really want to fuck spez, get off Reddit! Lemmy's already way better.

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Wait, they banned r/savethirdpartyapps? I guess they really don't give a shit about anything other than making money.

It doesn't matter who the CEO is. They want to make bank and it fundamentally doesn't work with volunteer mods.

Idk where to put this since r/savethirdpartyapps got banned so post this wherever will get noise if you agree

Try r/Save3rdPartyApps

Why would I want Spez fired when he's been so helpful in spreading awareness and encouraging adoption of the fediverse?

Whats firing supposed to do?

Im pretty sure hes planning on leaving on his own as soon as Reddit IPOs and he can bail out with his millions.

Fuck spez is clear and actionable too

I think everyone would be better off ignoring Reddit and its staff completely. We can build a better Reddit 2.0, and it wouldn't even take a lot of effort. The last year or two of Reddit (from my perspective) was lackluster content from niche communities becoming unbearably toxic anyway.

Eh. Lemmy is pretty good. I've moved on. I hope more people do as well and it can go in the giant Internet "has been" pile.

More effective to say "Reddit it dead" at this point, not that it's useful either just leave and don't look back honestly

Why?

Who cares?

The only reason I can think of that you would want to see him fired is if you still believe he is the one and the only problem. If it wasn't him, it would be somebody else. The whole industry is effectively in the process of imploding. Without him, it would just be some other corporate penny pincher. The problem is the profit incentive.

Also...why bother? The only reason I can think to do this would be because you believe if he's fired, there's a chance reddit is saved and we can all go back.

You're still holding on. Let it go, buddy.

"Fire the moderator of r/jailbait!"

r/SaveThirdPartyApps got banned?? When did this happen? What was the reason?

Just stop talking about the entire site completely. Every time you talk about it, or the people it just adds to their counter of people interacting and it helps them out. The place is dead. Let it burn and let the douchebags that have made it a shit hole stay there while we enjoy this place until it goes the same way.

Fuck him and then fire him?

But the people familiar with Reddit vastly out number the others that matter though?

We don’t need other people knowing who Huffman is, we need more redditors aware of what’s going on.

Fighting the wrong fight my friend.

Who the hell is gonna fire him, though? That's like clamoring for Mark Zuckerberg to be fired. It's probably impossible to.

Reddit is rotten to the core, the CEO is just to puppet in front of it all.

Replace the CEO and nothing will change as long as there are investors looking to make a profit.

To be fair, no one should fuck Spez, or do anything that would even temporarily improve the quality of his life.

Or create more comment and repost bots to dilute the content even further, sure initially it’ll look like increased real engagement but it would drive more power users and content creators away

I got banned from Reddit so I can't help, but still fire Steve Huffman!

do not tell me how to live my life

I haven't seen the point of saying anything against the man who is the face of a group of people who are only interested in milking all the money they can out of reddit. It's just an expression of anger.

I have much more appreciation for "so long, and thanks for all the fish"

How about "Not My King", "I Stand with the Landed Gentry", or "Down With King Steven the Turd"

I thought his first name was Fart?

Is this the right place? I feel like most of us in the fediverse are past "fixing" Reddit and are now just gleefully watching it burn.

What do you mean? r/savethirdpartyapps is not banned. I am about so amplify your message there now.

Wait... I thought we were trying to get Huffman some bitches??

Cmon ladies 'Fuck Spez'.

Seems like a popular fellow, what's the issue?

/s

Good luck changing people's mind

Hooo man, that'll show him!

Fuck spez is also an actionable statement tho:)

Why would he fire himself?

This person fucks. This is effective messaging!