A moment of appreciation for a man who is undoubtedly the world's most successful promoter of Lemmy and the fediverse
A man who grabbed our concept of a centralized internet by the balls and squeezed it so hard that the Lemmy’s user count 65xed in a 3 months period. Thank you for your service
Can I get a 'fuck spez'
nsfw tag please? I nearly vomited from seeing his face
That's no way to talk about Lemmy's single greatest advocate!
May he be forever fucked.
It really is funny. The only reason I went to reddit is that my phone app for news at the time (2011) took a shit and someone recommended reddit. I downloaded an app and that was the only way I interacted with reddit for over a decade. Then he killed that app and I figured if I'm going to have to adjust to a new app, I'm going elsewhere. What a dumbass.
The app you used for taking a shit took a shit? How ironic.
This is Elon Musk erasure.
Is the next step for Reddit to make all users pay?
*enshitiffication
Fuck Musk, Spez, and Zuck, and throw in Gates and Bezos while you're at it. Each of them has made their own personal empires of shit.
The link doesn’t load. What did Gates do that you‘d put him in the same category as the rest?
He is notorious for Microsoft's anti-competitive practices in the 1990s. But, I wouldn't put him in that company today. His philanthropy since leaving Microsoft is no joke.
Gates continued his bullshit well into his philanthrophy days.
And it looks like that the invidious instance that served my original post’s link is temprarily down. So here's another link.
My first reaction upon seeing this picture is "that guy has serious nazi energy" Sure enough, I was right.
I see it too, but does he seriously? I used to go on reddit a lot, but never followed the personalities very closely
i dont think so, but he did edit peoples comments so they agreed with what spez believes
and reddit used to have a running joke of mods and admins being nazis, which the admins also joked about but that was a decade ago
He's famous for having said that he's looking forward to the zombie apocalypse because it would let him live his fantasy of being a slaver.
There was also a hate subreddit where the mods all had a collective turn of heart and decided to shut down, but then reddit stepped in, reestablished the place, cleared house and then installed a new set of mods so that the subreddit could keep running. Yes, seriously.
The wrong reddit co-founder died.
RIP Aaron Swartz.
Someone look into it i heard he was into free speech and i wouldn't put it past spez to kill that guy for some personel gain.
Never forget that this cunt took the best parts of Reddit from us, cheers for that mate
"The best union organiser is the boss" sort of vibe
When I look at the guy and then at what he did. I think he really looks the part.
Same. My very first thought upon seeing a picture of this ghoul was "of course he looks like that"
This picture doesn't show his teeth. Dude's got some fucked up teeth.
Right?! Why does he look exactly like the kind of guy that would moderate r/Jailbait?
Who is this 😅
I believe this is Steve Huffman (aka u/spez) the co-founder and CEO of Reddit. (wikipedia)
This controversy is what this post is most likely referring to.
Came here to say this
Man, he even looks like a cunt.
Come on guys, it’s not funny anymore. Give him back his chin.
Reddit is the only major platform I've ever been banned from. And no it wasn't intentional.
I was banned from /r/funny for commenting on a spam post, place is so dumb
banned from /r/halo, these people/mods are thick, no offense meant, but thick
My 12 year account was banned. Still not sure why. Prior to that, i was banned from r/idiotsincars for speaking out against stereotypical jokes on Asians with bad driving by stating the statistics that Asians are not the worst driver. I guess that ruined their joke in that subreddit. Then they shadow banned me. My new accounts posts can't be seen by the public.
See I kept trying to tell people, cuz I was in that Century Club thing that you get from having me a certain amount of likes my comment or Good Karma or whatever.
And I told people that sub reddit bans need to be made 90 days of the longest, simply because the permanent bans were being blatantly abused.
I had many people agreeing with me
Seems like they doubled down
Reddit summarized: I got temp banned from a subreddit for calling a neo-nazi a cracker so I made the mod's message "Calling someone a cracker isn't standing up to racism" my flair on SubredditDrama where I proceeded to get perm banned from for spoiling Hogwarts Legacy before literally everyone on that subreddit started doing it so it was reduced to a temp. Oh and that one time I got a perm from a certain hexbear-affiliated subreddit for pointing out that some guy receiving a bunch of positive attention was probably an anti-semite but it would be a few years later before I got banned entirely off that site. Point is, reddit mods will ban you over the stupidest shit.
It really is telling that I've been on the internet since way before I should have been on the internet, and the only thing I've ever been banned from are various credits and then Reddit itself.
He DM'd me and told me my elbows are too pointy. 😞
That's a quality example of a lame insult, I think I'll borrow it
For real? 2012 negging moment
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I hope the bots are helping with that ad revenue you were so concerned about milking from the user base with your shitty app. Was it worth it, dumbass?
Mandatory fuck Reddit is in order...
We all know the BIGGEST promoter of the Fediverse but he's certainly the biggest for Lemmy!
Elon should buy reddit too.
That way he can kill two toxic platforms!
He may even be more skilled at ruining platforms than Elon Musk, and that is no easy task
Wait, is that spez? I kinda pictured him looking more pale and android like, more similar to zuck than this.
He does look like a discount version of Elon
Backpfeifengesicht.
🗯️👋🏻
I don't even know him
source rofl?!?
Lemmy, sure, but probably not the fediverse I'd guess, since the most popular fedi platform is mastodon, meant to recreate Twitter rather than Reddit
Who is that young boy and why isn't he in school?
Everyone at school was legally required to bully him and it was talking up too much time from everyone's schedules (not to mention the regular bullies who basically had their duties doubled, underpaid teachers had to bully him in their spare time, etc) ... so they told him he was a boy genius, gave him a degree & threw him out - now he's everyone else's problem.
Thank u/spez
/s
Oh cool, I love Queens of the Stone Age!
♪ Close your eyes and see this site is falling ♪
Oh look, a goatse. That takes me back.
He looks like a teenager still living in his moms basement
It doesn't surprise me that he looks like a colossal asshole
Real "mommy still cooks for me and I throw an tantrum when she forgets to cut the crusts off" vibes.
He is a world-class moron, no doubt about it.
You can take the turd out of the toilet, but you can't take the toilet out of the turd.
I... what?
He is highly regarded.
A big hurrah for the Lemmy Lord...
... of metal. And social platform.
Dude looks like a daytime tv villain.
Like Steven Seagal and aikido.
He wants to deep kiss Zuckerberg... at both ends of Zuckerberg.
He's also got his eye on musk the blot. Good loving there too!
You could even say he'll zuck the berg out of mark
You haven't said who this is? Is he supposed to be some globally recognisable celebrity?
He's not famous here in the UK.
Just the piece of shit reptile, that ruined reddit
Cunty McCuntface, known for being the CEO of Reddit. And if that doesn't ring a bell he himself has basically said he's a wannabe Musk. That should give a good indication of the kind of person we're dealing with here.
He's the literal pedophile who runs reddit
Did this man come for a reason besides Reddit
Cause if so that's awesome and quite rare from what I've seen
Acct created June 9, 2023. Probably not, but I also didn’t recognize spezs face
Suck fpez
Now, we have centralized communities on privately held domains names. How is that supposed to not go exactly like digg/Reddit all over again, if it ever becomes popular ?
Because in theory, there will be "sister" communities on different servers and everyone can just go somewhere else on the same platform.
IMO, the master stroke is to 'sub-federate' communites. Allow each special interest community on each instance to join into the same feed.
In practice there's a big one and unless there's a big schism that fragments the community, the big community will suck the air out for any smaller community in any topic.
Worse if it actually worked as intended and each tiny community stayed fragmented forever and em never amounted to anything.
I question if it is by design to prevent the formation of true, fediverse wide, decentralized but coalesced community.
If it is by accident, then it is a huge missed opportunity.
But I don't think it's by accident. The protagonist of Lemmy is the instance owner and the moderator, not the user. So the important part of the network is the instance fiefdom, not the whole network. Instances should just be another mirror of the whole, instead of tiny dictatorships.
he looks like a bootleg Rob Beckett.
Good ol Tombstone Teeth
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Thoughts and prayers.
Just erased all my comments and deleted my account. I will be a read-only user, because YourSearchEngine will probably suggest me some reddit results in my tech/misc requests.
EDIT: I refer to the tool i used here: https://lemmy.ninja/comment/1943034
His face looks like a clock.
One-handed clap.
And yet he makes more money out of it.
Thats the real shame those enshittifications dont have consequences as long as people dont change and i know most wont
Doomsday prepping libertarian 🙄
who considers himself a “natural leader”….
Jesus Christ, his whole self oozes "douche".
What a punchable face.
Buck toothed tiny dick
Hello there king ubermeisters,
It is I, the humble spokesperson for all of Lemmy. We sincerely apologize for falling short of your almighty opinion of opinions and expectations! How naive of us to air our own feelings about someone online and forget about your precious opinions and reaction to reactions.
In the future we will try Uber hard to think about your all-important feelings about another lying corpo pig who outright lied and defrauded one of his own user base. Surely one day your ball gobbling sycophant glory will be repaid in full through a deep and rough anal plunging you so clearly desire. Soon you will join the ranks of your masters - do not fret us lowly people.
Sincerely,
Eat shit.
Oh hey, it's cunt face.
less attractive, more punchable bad luck brian
Bad idea Brian.
Not as attractive as a cunt or an asshole, he's a dickface.
Idk, dicks can be pretty hot. A hairy ballsack, now that's almost universally seen as not attractive