Big talk from a small man. The internet hasn’t forgotten the buried sub you were moderator of, Spez.
is this the moment spez became Heisenberg? Reddit CEO warns users: "We know your dark secrets'
Submitted 8 months ago by i_have_no_enemies@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/reddit-ceo-tells-users-we-8082550
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Red_October@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Asafum@feddit.nl 8 months ago
We couldn’t possibly be talking about jail but I’ll take the bait.
But yeah spez tell us again about the dark secrets lol
taanegl@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Yeah, show us them dark secrets. He probably keeps them in PDF files.
catculation@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
This article was posted in 2016, how it is relevant today?
carl_dungeon@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Because that was the moment!
pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 months ago
stupid SEO
Steve@startrek.website 8 months ago
Fuck spez
bruhbeans@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
Sure, spez, tell them all about how dark and dirty my account, “pegmewithpigintestines”, can be. We’ll all be shocked.
SharkAttak@kbin.social 8 months ago
Not a smart move, right before the IPO. And what was this 'warning' about?
InvaderDJ@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Not a smart move, right before the IPO.
Really? I think the opposite. He said this in a profoundly stupid way, but what he is saying is that reddit is still the largest collection of human generated content. And not just the sanitized stuff you post on Facebook or LinkedIn, but your actual political opinions, your fears, your hobbies, the totally real secrets you posted to the weekly “What is your darkest secret” AskReddit post, your porn preferences, etc. And that is likely very valuable.
go_go_gadget@lemmy.world 8 months ago
He’d have a very difficult time proving any of it is authentic.
melooone@feddit.de 8 months ago
Maybe he wants Investors to think that his site will be really good for targeted ads.
linearchaos@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Which is kind of surprising after his incredible string of extremely smart moves over the past several years… /s
madcaesar@lemmy.world 8 months ago
This is a serious threat. I’m afraid he’ll release my secret… People might learn that I dabble… In… Linux…!
kawa@reddeet.com 8 months ago
So it’s you ! The hacker known as “4chan”
linearchaos@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Quick everybody stand back! They’re MAD!
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Oh no, go tell my wife I’m sleeping around on her. Go tell my friends I’m into bdsm. I don’t have dark secrets, I have aspects of my life that I display discretion in announcing. Dark secrets sound fucking exhausting.
Sweetpeaches69@lemmy.world 8 months ago
🤨📸
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I don’t want to be spied on not because I have something to hide but because I don’t want anyone looking. In the same way I’m not hiding what’s under my clothes, but you still can’t look.
Breve@pawb.social 8 months ago
Probably all those throwaway accounts that people create to post comments that they don’t want attached to themselves in any way. I doubt many people took enough precautions to prevent Reddit from identifying them as alternate accounts though.
GenderNeutralBro@lemmy.sdf.org 8 months ago
Same IP address(es), same OS/browser/app, same configuration? Easy match.
I mean, they got me, that’s for sure. I used to cycle accounts pretty frequently to dodge stalkers, but even a dedicated user could’ve figured me out just by matching the different subs I posted to. I eventually stopped posting in my local subreddits because of this, but even so, I talked about a lot of seemingly-common things that in aggregate could identify me pretty accurately. And that’s even without the data that only Reddit admins would have access to, like browser fingerprinting and whatever tracking mechanisms I wasn’t able to block (or the mere fact that I did block them).
For example, millions of people use the same phone model as I do, but how many of those also share my hobbies? How many of those play the same types of games? And how many of those use my same general writing style? How many times did I throw in an idle comment referring to a city I’d traveled to, or hinted at where I grew up? Oh my god, did I call Coke “soda”?! Information is leaking everywhere!
Heck, I wouldn’t be shocked if someone could match my Lemmy account to my Reddit account(s). It’d take a crazy stalker with a lot of time and skill, but with the ever-increasing power of AI, it’ll probably be easy for any schmuck to do within a couple years, never mind major governments and corporations. There’s a ton of information that’s hidden in plain sight, and it won’t stay hidden forever.
tb_@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Same IP address(es), same OS/browser/app, same configuration? Easy match.
Fingerprinting. This is a fun website to take a look at: www.amiunique.org/fingerprint
bus_factor@lemmy.world 8 months ago
You forgot same email address.
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Man, if I started getting nsfw recommendations on my sfw account, I’d be pissed. What else could he even want to practically/legally use that info for?
7heo@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
Spez could learn a think or two from russia. That is not how one uses kompromat…
ItsAFake@lemmus.org 8 months ago
Jokes on you spez I get off on that shit.
mihies@kbin.social 8 months ago
TBH this is always the case when you interact with any social network or any website in general. Data can be always collected. GDPR helps somehow.
THE_ANTIHERO@lemmy.today 8 months ago
Simeone post it to reddit too they are kinda starting to forget the issues .
inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Yes they know the deep dark secret that I absolutely cannot stand conservative values and microtransactions. So many deep dark secrets that I expressed on Reddit.
natarey@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Do these people proclaiming Reddit’s data as a “treasure trove of human-generated information”, or Spez claiming “We know your dark secrets” not realize that most of what people say online is at least partially a lie? Most Reddit comments were either low-effort echolalia or outright bullshit of the, “Yeah, that happened eyeroll” variety.
jonwyattphillips@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
They also have people’s private messages, chats, and mod mail.
natarey@lemmy.world 8 months ago
That’s fair – those aren’t things I ever used.
Conyak@lemmy.tf 8 months ago
My wife already knows what my sex kinks are. I’m good.
Gakomi@lemmy.world 8 months ago
My answer to this is so fucking what ? Boo hoo your gonna cancel me fuck you and your platform!
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 8 months ago
Bitch please. If they were so dark that you could blackmail me with them, they wouldn’t have been posts on fuckin’ Reddit.
voluble@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Think it’s more of an allusion to lurking habits, active times, metadata, stuff not related to public posts. I’d imagine the average user has plenty of stuff they’ve browsed through that they wouldn’t want their family / co-workers, etc. to know.
weew@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
Is this like a competition? Is it an invitation to dox spez? We know your dark secrets too, buddy.
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Man, it’s a good thing I never used my real name.
Lmaydev@programming.dev 8 months ago
Unless you like revealed details of a crime that only the criminal would know there’s no way to prove if anything you said is real.
spongeborgcubepants@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Well, say my name
Faceman2K23@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
We know spez’ secrets too.
Dude loved the jailbait subreddit before it was banned for obvious reasons.
He was a moderator.
Stern@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Misleading. At the point he was made a mod, the invite system didn’t exist so you could just make people mods whenever you wanted. He might not have even noticed depending on how active his inbox was or how active he was.
The better questions would be why it wasn’t banned after being nominated for subreddit of the year, and only got the axe after international attention via the Anderson Cooper segment.
Its not that he loved the subreddit, his (and by extension reddit corp) sociopathic ass simply views all that stuff as page views whether its memes, cp, or whatever. MBA cancer looking at everything as numbers.
Kbobabob@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I love that you made a point at the end to explain why he loved it.
Mango@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Nice try Spez.
Zak@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Reddit, and the early 2000s Internet culture that spawned it had a more absolute view of free speech than the modern consensus. Reddit’s rules were pretty much limited to:
The introduction of any other sitewide rules was controversial with the userbase at the time, and not because the average user was a creep who wanted to see teenagers in bikinis. People predicted (correctly) that other topics like piracy and darknet markets would eventually end up banned as Reddit tried to become more palatable to advertisers. People remain concerned that pornography will be banned or severely limited.
Let’s be fair to spez; there’s plenty to criticize him for, but he did not work at Reddit between roughly 2008 and 2016 when the jailbait controversy came up.
PoliticallyIncorrect@lemmy.world 8 months ago
He likes fresh meat?