• art101@lemmy.world
    3369·
    1 year ago

    Not sure I’m fully onboard with this to be honest.

    I mean, we’re all adults living in a civilised society and you missed an apostrophe, it should have been “you’re a cunt”, not youre.

    We all know better for next time ;-)

  • LA71@lemmy.oneOP
    1952·
    1 year ago

    I’m actually proud of this and might frame it for my office 🤣

  • ArgonautVehicle@lemmy.world
    147·
    1 year ago

    On a fine Monday morning, Steve Huffman, known colloquially as Spez, awoke from his gold-threaded sheets in his penthouse, sipping on his ethically questionable yet preposterously expensive civet coffee. He looked out his windows, the horizon offering the perfect view of his kingdom, his creation, his Reddit.

    Having decided to raise the cost of API use to levels that would make a NASA engineer’s jaw drop, Spez had embarked on a mission to squelch third-party apps, steering users towards the official (albeit buggy) Reddit app. He chuckled to himself, confident that his plot was as foolproof as an uncrackable safe.

    Little did he know, the storm was brewing.

    As he logged on, dressed in his favorite power suit, he noticed the eerie silence. Subreddits, once buzzing hives of memes, jokes, and shower thoughts, were now as barren as the surface of Mars. The once-mighty r/AskReddit, now reduced to a ghost town, echoed with digital tumbleweeds.

    Confused, he navigated to r/pics. The screen loaded and his eyes were met with an endless scroll of buttholes, every variety, shape, and color imaginable. His newly nanobot-manicured eyebrows knitted together in bewilderment.

    “Must be a new meme trend,” he said, shrugging it off.

    He then moved to r/science, a bastion of intellect and reason, only to find NSFW content occupying every single thread. The Higgs boson was being discussed in a manner Einstein could never have predicted.

    “What in the name of…?” He blinked, checking whether he was still on Reddit and not some obscure corner of the dark web.

    He decided to investigate, opening his mailbox. “Surely my loyal subjects will inform me what’s going on,” he mused.

    And inform they did. His inbox was flooded with messages, each more colorful than the last. “Spez, you’re a legend!” one began, before ending with a plot twist, “…at being a daft cunt.”

    “Has everyone lost their minds?” he wondered, failing to connect the dots.

    He banished anyone who dared cross him, banning his way through his subjects like a monarch with an itchy trigger finger.

    As the day wore on, Spez grew restless. His grand plan was not unfolding as expected. But, in his characteristic arrogance, he was certain that the chaos would soon subside and he would ascend as the one true app lord.

    In his plush office, surrounded by screens showing falling Reddit stocks, he clutched a crystal ball he bought from a New Age store, whispering, “Soon, my Reddit will be worth billions…” The crystal ball, deciding it had enough, promptly rolled off his desk and shattered on the Italian marble floor.

    In the end, a day that began with grand ambitions ended with a lonely billionaire, surrounded by pictures of buttholes, an inbox full of profanity, a shattered crystal ball, and a kingdom in chaos.

    Unbeknownst to him, the Reddit community reveled in their rebellion. They might not have won the war yet, but oh, how they celebrated the battles. As the moon replaced the sun, one phrase echoed throughout the kingdom of Reddit, repeated in posts and comments, whispered in DMs, etched into the heart of the rebellion,

    “Fuck Spez.”

    • Rull_9@lemmy.world
      251·
      1 year ago

      I need this entire comment printed out and framed. Its composure is truly artistic!

    • BeardyGrumps@lemmy.worldEnglish
      18·
      1 year ago

      Let’s sing all together:

      Well Spez is a cunt, he’s a big fat cunt, He’s the biggest cunt in the whole wide world. He’s a stupid cunt, if there ever was a cunt, He’s a cunt to all the boys and girls.

      On Monday, he’s a cunt, On Tuesday, he’s a cunt, On Wednesday though Saturday, he’s a cunt, Then on Sunday, just to be different, He’s a super King Kamehameha Cunt.

      Have you ever met Reddits Spez? He’s the biggest cunt in the whole wide world, (La-la-la-la-la-la-la) He’s a mean ol’ cunt and he has wangy eyes, He’s a cunt, cunt, cunt, cunt, cunt, cunt, cunt.

      Cunt, cunt, cunt, cunt, cunt, cunt, cunt, He’s a stupid cunt! (Woah!)! Reddits Spez is a cunt, And he’s such a dirty cunt! (Cunt!)!

      • spankinspinach@sh.itjust.works
        8·
        1 year ago

        The little rectangle with a triangle out of the bottom, beside the downvote buttone, saves comments for later enjoyment. Happy Lemmying!

        • Feliberto@programming.dev
          3·
          1 year ago

          Thanks, it doesn’t work or I don’t know where to find my saved posts. I’m using wefwef, so I tought it’d be a feature yet to be implemented.

          • spankinspinach@sh.itjust.works
            3·
            1 year ago

            Ah shoot, just logged into Wefwef and see it doesn’t have it! I’m using Jerboa and it does have save functions if that’s an option for you :)

              • megane-kun@lemmy.worldEnglish
                3·
                1 year ago

                If you’ve got a way to access your user profile via a browser (mobile works too), you can see your saved posts there.

                On any page, click/press the hamburger icon on the top-leftmost part of your screen. It’d open up a menu (or an area) where you can see your profile picture and username at the very bottom. There’s a triangle next to your username, click/press that.

                Another menu/area opens up that has options “Profile”, “Settings”, and “Logout”. Click/press “Profile” to see your user profile.

                You’re then taken to a different page (which you can directly go to via https://your.lemmy.instance/u/your_username, for example:‌‌‌ https://lemmy.world/u/AllGoesUpMustGoDown). There, you can choose between “Overview”, “Comments”, “Posts” and “Saved.” That last link (to your saved posts/comments) won’t be visible to others (I tried).

                PS: I tried looking for the same in wefwef, but I can’t find it as well.

                PPS: Weirdly enough, it might be faster to just go directly via the address bar of your (mobile) browser if you know what you’re doing, lol!

                Edit: Typos and shit. Added PPS part.

                • AllGoesUpMustGoDown@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  3·
                  1 year ago

                  Ironically, I accidentally found the saved part yesterday trying to find something I posted, but that was quite an informative guide! However, apparently something you save via the wefwef save button doesn’t actually save, the button seems just for show. Thought it was a .world bug at first, with the influx of Redditors happening yesterday.

  • Bushwhack@lemmy.world
    46·
    1 year ago

    I tagged him in messages for a few days calling him a cunt but never got banned. I guess DM was the thing to make it be effective?

  • PatFusty@lemm.ee
    457·
    1 year ago

    Like 3 days ago I got a site wide ban for posting a picture of the comments spez altered on TheDonald like 4 years ago. Reddit has gone downhill ever since Pao got the CEO title and has only gotten worse under spez.

  • Kerrangutan@lemmy.one
    32·
    1 year ago

    called /u/Spez a cunt

    This is inaccurate, /u/Spez lacks warmth and depth and has never given anyone pleasure.

    • InverseParallax@lemmy.world
      16·
      1 year ago

      No, they talked about it, it was brutal, they were overworked for a good while, then when the money came in they went dumb corporate.

      There was a while where they said the stress felt like it was worth it then everything fell apart, this was around when pao was in charge and the ama lady got fired.

      • Obi@sopuli.xyz
        5·
        1 year ago

        That sounds about right, it’s been coasting on the momentum from past glories since then, and we were protected from the worst of it by third party apps and good mods and communities in smaller subreddits. Both things they’re now ripping apart. Curious to check Reddit again in a couple years and witness just how bad it got.

  • InfiniteGlitch@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    281·
    1 year ago

    Surprises me that you get banned for it but whenever someone else call another person that - they get away with either a warning or nothing happens. Lol.

    • sonofbattles@lemmy.world
      75·
      1 year ago

      I hope you did all this behind a good ad blocker/DNS filter or else you just increased engagement with the site and potentially their ad delivery network. They also collect the analytics, think advertisers won’t pay for metadata related to a cohort of users mass exodusing? I love the decentralized setup here, this is really cool. Let’s get more time and engagement here instead and stop providing our data to Predditers.

      • RestingBitchFace@lemmy.world
        7·
        1 year ago

        The only time I don’t use an adblocker is on my work computer because they are so locked down. If I have to go there again I’ll use a VPN just to fuck with their engagement.

      • delfinom@lemmy.world
        6·
        1 year ago

        FYI, they go beyond IP and use browser fingerprinting to ban all your accounts.

        There’s also a hilarious bug in reddit logic that can let you ban innocent users this way :3

  • Finnbot@lemmy.world
    241·
    1 year ago

    Glad to see my permanent ban for reporting one fucking Fox News post on politics for blatant climate change denialism is on level with this. For using the report function to bully/harrass ffs. Laughable!

    Place was becoming a shitehole months before these API changes anyway.

      • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldM
        8·
        1 year ago

        An r/Politics mod banned me for “homophobia” because I said that children in kindergarten should learn what parts of their bodies adults shouldn’t touch. I never figured that one out.

    • damnYouSun@sh.itjust.works
      7·
      1 year ago

      What’s somewhat depressing is that he didn’t have to act like that. It’s done in no favours at all and yet he still chose to be a complete twit.