And Huffman’s programming skills weren’t even that great because they quickly brought in Aaron Schwartz to make it all work, yet they always conveniently leave him off of the founders’ list.
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SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 months ago
Founded in 2005 by web developer Steve Huffman and entrepreneur Alexis Ohanian, Reddit became best known for its niche discussion groups and its users voting “up” or “down” on the content posted by other members.
I appreciate this extremely sly shade at Steve Huffman.
He’s not an entreprenuer because he didn’t do dick between leaving Reddit and coming back to Reddit whereas Ohanian had a few other companies in his back pocket.
I mean, Ohanian sucks, too, but this sentence is just Reuters kicking dirt in Steve Huffman’s smarmy little bitch face and I’m fucking here for it.
ericisshort@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Kyrgizion@lemmy.world 9 months ago
This is literally the story of almost every successful tech venture. Even in the company I work for, the CEO was a former salesperson while the dev who started it all was still a dev after 20 years. He singlehandedly created the entire product catalog but no one outside of the company knows his name. The CEO’s name is all over everything, including a “book” he “wrote”.
There’s always a low profile nerd somewhere in the background who is absolutely key to the whole operation but they rarely get cred.
hoshikarakitaridia@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
Man I wish you were wrong but I have seen this exact thing 95% of the times I had a look behind closed doors of companies.
And even more dumb: this nerd usually gets undervalued, and as soon as they leave, it takes about half a year for ppl to realize how fucked they are and frantic recruitment noises to fill the offices in the hopes to pick up the pieces.
frezik@midwest.social 9 months ago
There is a certain satisfaction in leaving a job and then they have to hire three new people to do what you did.
Uglyhead@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Huffman was fucking pissed about how good Alien Blue and Apollo were. He bought and absolutely fucking ruined AB and when he couldn’t buy Apollo (he tried) he crushed it under his boot heel.
Quetzlcoatl@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
Shoutout to all the tip of the spear folks here on lemmy for devaluing reddits ipo. Even if it makes a minimal dent kudos for taking the more difficult road and standing on principle.
match@pawb.social 9 months ago
I’ve tried to go back to Reddit occasionally and it’s garbage, vastly more garbage than I remember last year, from the web design down to the userbase. Whereas I can’t recall a single time I’ve been on lemmy and encountered an [undeclared] bot
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 months ago
Just today I noticed how low skilled the reddit base seems to be in my general meme/tech/piracy thrmed feed.
So many basic questions that could literally be answered by or get a start on from ChatGPT etc.
Instead they pollute the subs with their low effort requests for help or guidance.
Example: How to get started on pirating anime.
That was a legit title…
Hyperreality@kbin.social 9 months ago
The younger generation is less tech savvy than the millenial generation who were forced to figure stuff out themselves and didn't have smartphones.
I get the idea that a lot of people who emigrated to the fediverse are older and also more tech literate given all the linux memes.
kescusay@lemmy.world 9 months ago
There are a few bots, mostly spammers. If you mod a community, you can see them. They’re typically caught by the spam filters before I even notice they’re there.
agent_flounder@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Same. It’s pretty damn terrible.
Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 9 months ago
The fediverse has better memes anyway
RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Although the Star Trek memes factionalized faster than I would have expected.
EmergMemeHologram@startrek.website 9 months ago
You too buddy!