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by 9935c101ab17a66 1083 days ago
I’m astounded you see it as a stroke of genius. Reddit may weather this storm, but spez made it worse at every turn. If their initial goal really was killing third-party clients, there are so many other ways they could have done it without astronomical levels of negative attention. The “landed gentry” sound bite made it to sites like TechCrunch and the verge — not a good look for Reddit’s IPO.