I was almost certain that this was the case already, but it's interesting that Steve Huffman is now outright admitting that he's taking inspiration from Elon Musk's changes at Twitter, especially since said changes have been widely mocked by most other people in the tech field and have gotten Twitter into thousands (yes, really[1]) of lawsuits and arbitration claims.
This likely means that there's no way Huffman will reverse course at this point: he's committed to following the Elon Musk playbook to the letter, hence why he's laying off a substantial amount of Reddit staff[2] and is taking Elon's generally bizarre approach to PR in trying to justify them.
My doubts about Reddit's long-term future are now through the roof.
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I was almost certain that this was the case already, but it's interesting that Steve Huffman is now outright admitting that he's taking inspiration from Elon Musk's changes at Twitter, especially since said changes have been widely mocked by most other people in the tech field and have gotten Twitter into thousands (yes, really[1]) of lawsuits and arbitration claims.
This likely means that there's no way Huffman will reverse course at this point: he's committed to following the Elon Musk playbook to the letter, hence why he's laying off a substantial amount of Reddit staff[2] and is taking Elon's generally bizarre approach to PR in trying to justify them.
My doubts about Reddit's long-term future are now through the roof.
[1]: https://www.techdirt.com/2023/06/16/twitters-lawyers-admit-t...
[2]: https://www.reuters.com/technology/reddit-lay-off-about-5-wo...