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Reddit CEO Steve Huffman says the company used to be so idealistic that people were 'not working very hard'
(www.businessinsider.com)
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this post was submitted on 06 May 2025
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Ah yes, Steve showing his true colors.
"Forget moral convictions or a greater purpose than self enrichment. Reddit is public now baby, this thing makes money, not societal progress!"
And in the vacuum, Lemmy rises up.
I might buy ONE(1) share of reddit and ask for it to be directly registered to a stock certificate so I can someday point to it and say "I personally ate a piece of its corpse" out of
pure
s p i t e .
Maybe people should go back to "not working very hard" because Reddit has spiraled into a shit hole ever since it's users became ad revenue generators.
Fuck Steve Huffman, fuck Reddit, Nazi sympathizing shithole website.
Was that the same idealism that led to the jailbait and creepshot subreddits being allowed to flourish? Or Covid misinfo? Deepfakes? The chimpire? Qanon? All that stuff definitely wasn't operating clandestinely.
I've heard from writeups from former employees that the internal culture is a perfect reflection of Reddit as a whole. Which says a lot.
Fuckin' wannabe Muskrat.
Yep. Exactly. Before Elon went full Nazi and during the API riots, he said that he wants reddit to be like X and run like how musk operates it
Guy who never worked hard in his life tries to tell other people to work hard.
Yes sometimes these guys (CEOs) do longer hours, but it consits of eating dinner with other Cs, looking at presentations (which they cant judge because they generally have no idea how the actual business runs), sitting in meeting, flying to other meetings and pretending to look at some company numbers and of course having the very very high responsibility that they keep talking about that they actually never ever have.
Does this mean they should make x50 or more than the average worker ? You judge that.
Does this mean they should make x50 or more than the average worker ?
x50?
Pigboy gave himself a $193 million bonus. Do you think the average reddit worker made $3.86 million?
I can't remember who it was, but sometime in the last few years a VC or CEO wrote an article documenting their day and how they "worked 12 hours a day" or something like that. What I remember most is that their accounting of their work included their time at the gym, at least one meal, and something else that few if any employers would consider "working time".
I agree that sometimes C-suite execs do work long hours sometimes, and I'll differ from you in that sometimes those long hours are legitimate and valuable for a company. IMO, it's not the norm nor is it generally worth the premium that most companies pay for those hours.
This dude needs a London smile.
s/London/Glasgow and then we're talking.
I think I'd prefer a Glasgow kiss over a Chelsea smile.
He's basically admitting that now that he's wholly a sellout, he's making more money. La-de-la, tell me more.
reddit is mostly managed by AI filters.
Whats weird is how bad reddit works in a basic web browser, which is where the app started.
I think that's intentional, to drive you onto their shitty app.
Fuck spez
Greedy little pig boy
WOW A BOSS WANTS PEOPLE TPO WORK HARDER?????
Translation - the employees weren't getting abused until I came back and reminded them why I'm back
Fuck off bunker boy.
I shadow banned everyone except bots and now my company sucks but NobOdY WaNts To WOrK ANYmOre
They just outright ban people now. Been a Reddit user with zero problems for well over a decade, like 13 years, I’m now banned completely for upvoting Luigi content and saying I was surprised Kanye hadn’t murder/suicided Kim or Taylor yet which is apparently promoting violence. They’re really going out of their way to purge users.
Funny. I said I didn't understand why CIA hadn't killed Trump yet. That is also promoting violence, I guess... If you completely ignore all the people they've killed in the past with a worse reason than what Trump has done specifically to the CIA.
The least they could've done was banning me for when I said Trump deserves to hang upside down for an extended amount of time in piñata hanging height.
This guy has a face in need of a fist, as the German saying is translated.
That's my patron saint.
This is your brain on capitalism
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