This got me banned from Reddit Event with u/Spez (Steve Huffman) LOL

Lol at the sign-language interpreter, like Reddit gives half a shit about accessibility now.
- Sign language yes, real time captions no. Only whatever live transcription crap your phone or computer could do

I recognize that guy. He was a moderator of the r/jailbait subreddit for the many, many years it was hosted on Reddit.com.
- Is that true? Holy moly!
  
  Consensus: FALSE
- Source? See

Of the three people involved in Reddit's creation, he was the most useless and antithetical to reddit's greater vision.
Swartz was a far better person.
- Those are always the guys that wrest control though. They have no contributions, so instead they spend their time scheming.
  
  That goes for most sub culture. A new thing pops up, comics, tabletops, internet thing. It slowly gets popular. At it's zenith some wise guy realize he can make a quick buck out of it, wrestles control over it. more people show up less informed but still keen to try it out. Leaves the old guards behind.
- Aaron Swartz, the internet's own boy.

- They did buy a superior client. Alien Blue it was called. Then internal politics killed it. Even today Alien Blue would still be a better experience, without any updates in the last five years.
- There are a hundred different ways they could have reached a compromise on third party app support if it was just about API limits. They killed it because they want to gather mobile app telemetry like everyone else does these days.
  
  Telemetry is telling them their app sucks and that people try it x period of time and then uninstall it.
  It is so terrible that I log into reddit once a week on my pc.
- All that costs time, money and resources whereas flatput lying and fucking people over is cheap. You calculate how much you'll lose, see that it's enormously bad qualitatively but you won't lose too many visitors because most people don't give a fuck so you go with it.
- RwF
- That's the thing. I get that people using the service on a third party client and not seeing ads is hurting their bottom line as they use bandwidth and not make money. But just banning them outright is a shit move. Ideally they would've made it part of Reddit Premium to make that a bit more worthwhile.
- You know, I realize that some people run a dictatorship and only want absolute obedience, I totally get that, that's totally a gettable thing for me, that's not weird at all.
- Yes. And ok.

Oh so now they don't like ads
- Only ads that serve them are allowed

I’m sure their next “Reddit Event” will not have a real time chat.
- I bet you are right lol

Aww, you hurt their delicate fee-fees! How mean! /s
Also, lol at that pathetic sycophant's reply below your comment. Dude needs to stop twerking for spez.
- There were many like that, lol!
- Who is that comment even aimed at? Being that it is right under OP's comment in (what I presume to be) a busy chat, I doubt it is a response to OP.
  
  Good point.

- Wow, it's like a glimpse inside the mind of a junior highschool edge lord.
  
  Being around other people is a good thing. I also have this somewhat egotistical view that I’m a pretty good leader. I will probably be in charge, or at least not a slave, when push comes to shove.
  Well, at least he's right about the ego thing. He's going to get traded for a handful of batteries within the first week lol.
- When i read this in 2017 i got really mad, had this in my head for weeks. What a piece of shit spez is.
- he was a competitive ballroom dancer
  That's a new one.
- Ew just make sure you wash your hands
- Hail all mighty master spezy wezy uwu 👉👈

Reddit has become Facebook with a different management team. These people are motivated by profit and that's the only way their decisions make any kind of sense. Whenever we mix the profit motive with a service for people, the people will always play second fiddle. It's why mixing profit with healthcare is inhumane and it's what's so great about Wikipedia.
- i'm of another notion, i think its more about controlling public space for discourse itself than it is about profit.. they want to sever access to whatever they might consider subversive dialogue and control the next generation's access to it.
  
  A lot of things in life are not this heavily conspiratorial...
  
  Occam’s Razor.
  The only thing that matters is profits. Those profits come from advertising. The businesses doing the advertising do not want their brands associated with things that are controversial or offensive to the general public.
  Therefore Reddit is bending to their will.
  Because profits.
  No conspiracy necessary.

🫡 thank you for your service 🫡
- It was an honor, sir!

- u/Ademir… A Lemming on a mission with a swagger that will set the world at ease…

So...what exactly was this event? Was it like a AMA? Or was it like one of those corporate circle jerk things where everyone says what they are supposed to say?
- If I’m guessing correctly, it’s a modcon, which makes it even more pathetic for mods to attend an event hosted by the very people who have given them grief this past few months, just so they can feel special with their own exclusive event.
  
  Yes, that's what it was. I went in just to mess when Spez was gonna talk.
- Is there a difference between the latter and a typical spez ama?
  
  Last time I saw one of his AMA, it was just a wall of deleted comments.

I got banned because I said "lemmy dot world" in reply to someone who said they wished reddit had an alternative.

We must all remember spez’ has an abnormal love of cats, among his other issues. Like keeping slaves and resource hoarding.

Yeah redditors can do that too, it would probably look somewhat like this:
Come to reddit, we have CEO who's an idiot but controls everything, a 100% closed API unless you pay exorbitant prices to use it, and we have advertisements everywhere, but WE NEED TO MAKE MONEY. So please come. We also have sociophants and trolls.
/Steve Huffman
- He asked to forgiven him because of the API thing LOL
  
  We need details, please.

lol you fucking legend.

If he doesn't want to accept dissenting opinions, he should do like Mr. Burns and only allow prefabricated text.
Lisa: "Mr. Burns your campaign seems to have the momentum of a run away freight train. Why are you so popular?"
- He allowed dissenting opinions when he let jailbait be one of the most popular subs lol

Don't forget, he used to moderate r/jailbait.
- Heard this is a myth but by all means continue to propagate this rumor 🥳
  
  If i recall, at the time sub owners could designate anyone as a moderator without them having to accept the position, meaning that its very possible he was made a mod of the subreddit as a joke/troll but never actually interacted with it.
  Hes still a dipshit though
  
  He is clearly steeped in 2000s chan culture, and jb was a big part of it at that time. It's a big part of the reason I stopped using 4chan, because it got to the point where there was too much chance of randomly coming across that shit. Reading between the lines, it's very likely that he's a fucking pedo.
  
  someone addressed it in the main thread

Spez has like a bunch of fore written answers and then tries to fit them in the questions asked
-TitusRex, hero, probably banned now as well
lmao

Screw Reddit and spez. You did well, OP!

He did a talk and Q&A in England awhile back at I believe Oxford and he kept checking his watch, it just seemed rude.
- It was probably a smart watch where he read what to answer

he was a competitive ballroom dancer, who hacked his roommate’s Web site as a prank.
What a fun little image that conjures up.

I hadn't thought about it until now but what do redditors who didn't migrate say about us? I'm really curious now but I don't want to look. I've only been on the site a couple times since the blackout and they were for specific reasons * I don't want to ruin my streak * . Does anyone here use both regularly?
*Edit
- Okay, that's slightly disappointing but nothing surprising. I appreciate the well thought out response, thank you.
  Kind of seems like the scale will always be tipped on reddits side but hopefully that doesn't discourage the people who actually do come here. As long as Lemmy is active, I don't plan on using anything else. My reddit account was over a decade old and I'm hoping my Lemmy account will last even longer. Should I move instances?
  
  Out of all the people I know irl who are aware of Lemmy, 50% have tried it, and of those, all but one was put off by the tankie mind rot and inconsistent moderation.
- From the place I still use as they didn't move, I haven't seen a single mentioning of Lemmy, fedivers, black out or anything close. Makes sense as those communities didn't even try moving.
  In one of the subs I did notice a quality decline and it moving a bit from, people talking about shared experiences with a medical condition, to being babys first experience with medical condition, but it has moved back even so slightly, but the average age seems to have gone down.
  The other one for a game. I can proudly say is just as low quality as before, but I stick around to give tech support, even if it of the absolute most basic nature sometimes, and keep up with updates, bugs and community fixes.
  
  Wow, that last sentence makes you a saint.
- From what I can tell a lot of the people there who are even aware of it think of Lemmy as inactive and irrelevant and the protests as an embarrassing failure.
  
  the protests were an embarrassing failure but lemmy isn't

You a real one bruh!
- Hey! Thanks!
  Btw Berserk rocks!

Worth it. It's a win/win really

Nice, keep it up
- Hell yeah this is great, especially if it is done in a cheeky way like you are poking the bear a little bit while also genuinely inviting people to try the fediverse out.

I'd ban you too for using that fucking emote.

And that was the comment with more "likes" 👍
- I saw it getting one more thumbs up after the screenshot

Grande Ademir, melhor admin da melhor comunidade de lemmy.
To everyone else, come to lemmy.eco.br (or to Brazil)!!
- Brasil numero 1 Penta Campeão!
- Tamo junto, meu considerado! E aquele problema com o docker? Conseguiu superar?
  
  Kkk, acho que me tá confundindo com alguém mais

#PunchSpezsrslurredlittleface

You are the people's champ.
- Some of those that run corporates...

That face insists upon itself.
- Oh I get some kind of urge, definitely.

This is the greatest thing I could have seen on the top of my page 😂 Keep spreading the word Lemmings!!

Good job hero
- lol thanks

Lmao

Worth it

Spez has that empty stare of a person who knows the devil is about to collect

He looks exactly how I pictured it.

What was this event, and how did you manage to get your username showing without /u?
- It was a modcon sort of thing. Anyone could edit their name and add a pic.

o7

I don't understand. Why did you get banned?
- Because I advertised Lemmy in front of Reddit CEO
  
  Ooohh I see it. Apologies. I don’t know how I missed it.

Based and anti-corpo pilled
- 🗿

What is up with Mr. Nosferatu hands in the little corner picture?
- Sign language interpreter, presumably

I love this

Oh god, that was cringey. Please, if you want to dunk on spez, or play to the camera in other ways, please write like you passed the 4th grade.

Spamming a live chat is just being a nuisance. Nobody's been annoyed into listening to a spammer.
- From the image, I don't see how this was spamming, though.
  
  We can't see much of anything. The image shows all of 4 comments. But I can guess, considering the all capital username and copy-paste format - I would bet money that they posted that same thing over and over again. Also, I know this platform is understandably anti-Reddit, but I really doubt they're banning people for a single comment about Lemmy.
- Nobody’s been annoyed into listening to a spammer.
  It was just the comment with most "thumbs up" while I was there LOL.
- i can imagine an infinite number of live chats where spamming as a nuisance is positive. spez, scientology, MLMs, i don't even have to be political
  
  I'm not defending the Spez stream. I'm saying spamming a chat with JOINLEMMY is just going to make Lemmy look bad and associate it to new people as an annoyance rather an interesting alternative.

To be fair, I would imagine that this event had some rule about not advertising in the chat in the ToS or stream rules fine print somewhere.
And as much as I dislike Steve and Reddit, I agree with Reddit on this one. You (or anyone else) shouldn't be abusing the chat of a competing service stream to advertise a different one. It is not the place for that and is rude. Please do not give existing Reddit users reason to believe all Lemmy users are rude rule breakers.
- I am not complaining. I was there to make fun of Spez and I don't care if I was rude. If they think Lemmy users are any different than Reddit users they are delusional. There is all types of users here and there.

- Calm down. Just because no one likes you doesn't mean you have to be a dick for no reason
- Oh looks Spez made a fed account. Name checks out too
- He uses arch btw
  OP is a superior life form and the masses must obey because of the technological superiority and the nuanced knowledge base that OP operates with. Trust bro, lemmy is better.
  
  You're being ableist by forgetting the /s honey