I gotta unpack this a little…
Reddit’s main source of revenue is advertising. Other companies pay Reddit to shove ads in your face. You probably buy products from at least some of those companies, and while market forces and consumer perceptions have large influence, operating costs are still a factor in setting those prices. Just like everyone else, Reddit sets the prices of its advertising services based in part on its operating costs, which includes Spez’s salary.
Even if you avoid Reddit, things you buy are more expensive because this fucking toolshed gets paid $193 million a year just to be a sociopathic jackoff with a popular website.
I quit Reddit years ago, but I’m still fucking pissed about this shit and I have every right to be.
Just like auto insurance is more expensive than it should be because they advertise like mad.
Impressive
You’re funny. You think Reddit is the only place these tools get paid. So many of these are from other sites as well. And they dish out money to all of them.
Nothing OP said indicated he thought Reddit was the only place that did that.
Not exactly sure what you missed or what your point is supposed to be.
The same would be true of any ad platform. I hate Facebook for all the ills it’s caused society and it pisses me off that my breakfast cereal is slightly more expensive because of Zuckerberg’s compensation package too.
But Facebook, et al. aren’t being discussed here. Reddit is.
Even if I stay off the internet completely, a portion of the money I spend STILL goes in their pocket, and the only way to prevent it is to spend hours exhaustively researching every product I buy to find the one or two alternatives out of hundreds of others that don’t feed into the system somehow. And even if product A doesn’t buy ads on these platforms, the place I shop for it probably does. If I can’t buy direct, as is the case with so many purchases, all that time and research are robbed of any real impact by the fact that my closest retail outlet spends millions on targeted Internet ads.
But it’s not really about the money though, it’s about where it’s going.
In an alternate timeline, Spez, Zuck, and the rest are decent human beings with a functioning conscience and use their platforms for the common good. I don’t mind those versions of them getting a piece of my alternate self’s dollar. But I don’t live in that universe.
So, because I’m stuck here, every single one of these modern-day Prometheus wannabe, god-complex, techbro shitheads can kiss my hairy ass.
Go fuck spez, spez fucker.
Dumbass
That doesn’t make them wrong, it just proves the companies are even worse than was originally implied cause they do this same scumfuckery all over the place. Congratulations, you played yourself.
I’m pretty sure my point was that they were worse then this dude said. I didn’t play myself, I just proved how many dumb fucks are in this site that don’t know how to fucking read you fucking tool.
Bro chill. You don’t even really seem to be disagreeing. Have some water and lie down for a minute and come back after you’ve cooled off.
you’re right it’s the entire world that’s wrong, it could never be you just yappin from out your ass to be contrary compulsively.
reddit these days is very different. i remember people were buying each other reddit gold back in the day to pay for the site so it wouldn’t have to bend to advertisers and their rules. now reddit is big business
Lemmy.World is far batter than Reddit, I Love Lemmy
We should have absolute caps on incomes and wealth. In no fair world, would anyone be compensated with enough wealth to buy a fleet of mega yachts.
No one deserves that much no matter what they’ve done. To squeeze that much out of the company requires taking away from employees, the company as a whole and advertisers.
According to a google search, reddit has 2,233 employees. Meaning his bonus is ~$86.5k per employee.
Whenever I see these giant C suite bonuses announced, it seems hard to imagine why every single staff member doesnt demand a massive raise, and they all strike till they get it. After all, the company has just proven they have the massive piles of extra cash and can afford it.
Because it takes organization to get everyone to strike, especially when a majority of Americans live paycheck to paycheck. This is why corporations are also very anti-union. It’s how that organization happens. It’s how we got a 5-day work week!
Obligatory FUCK SPEZ.
Came here to say this FUCK SPEZ
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Username checks out.
This is what people mean when they say profit is theft
greedy little pig-boy
He looks like he is still searching for his ‘precious’
Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.
Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez
I did my part by spoofing their API and using RIF right up until I got banned for saying nazis deserve to be dead.
Hit too close to home for the admins with that one.
I didn’t get banned, but I remember once teaching people how to fuck with tire valve stems discreetly to fuck with cops and bad parkers and getting a ton of downvotes. That same advice just got a ton of upvotes here. It’s better here.
What’s your method? BB under the screw on cap?
BB or piece of gravel under the cap. Or placing a nail under the tire so it punctures when they pull away.
can of soup for their family under their windshield wiper alongside Engels’ Origin of the Family.
“I have a hemorrhoid. It’s like an infected blood vessel on your ass. I’m nine years old, and I have a hemorrhoid, Stan. I have a hemorrhoid, and, Cartman has his own theme park.”
Ok so I don’t actually have a hemorrhoid, but bad things do happen to good people. And Cartman has $193M in this example.
Steve Huffman is a pedo sympathizer.
No no, he is a pedo. He used to run r/jailbait.
I know that’s a funny bit of trivia to bring up, but the actual reason that was the case is because once upon a time the mod of a Subreddit could add other users as mods without needing them to accept. Someone added his account as a mod and the dude likely didn’t even notice. He probably has some assistant running his account.
Reddit has turned into a dumpster fire, and that dude is like all the other greedy billionaires, but I don’t think it’s necessary to perpetuate false facts.
spez ain’t gonna suck your dick, you’re too old for him
There’s no way he did not know about the /r/jailbait sub, and he and reddit at large, allowed it for a long time
There was a lot of dodgy stuff on Reddit. Whether or he personally knew about all of it is one thing, but Reddit as a company allowed it up until it became fiscally advantageous to remove it. It was never about censorship vs free speech like the end users always argue about.
I quit Reddit long ago; cast your vote by deleting your account!
I stopped using it after the API fiasco, but only deleted my account last year, admittedly.
Doing my part! ✊
