Reddit Co-Founder Alexis Ohanian Steps Aside, Focuses on Initialized Capital

Post by wand3r » Wed, Feb 07, 2018, 7:09 PM UTC

kwelstr wrote: post #12

faitswulff wrote: post #5

Full text: Reddit Co-Founder Alexis Ohanian announced on Wednesday he will step down from daily duties at the internet company and focus his attention on Initialized Capital, the early stage venture capital firm that he co-founded and is known for investments such as Coinbase and Instacart. He will continue to sit on Reddit’s board. Mr. Ohanian, 34, said the timing of his decision reflected a number of personal and p…

Reddit is done, I deleted my long time reddit account last month, it has become a circle jerk and even small subreddits are mostly useless. I remember when it was a real source of interesting news and comments. Hacker News is my online forum now and sometimes I even check slashdot for all times sake.

Post by komali2 » Wed, Feb 07, 2018, 7:11 PM UTC

kaffee wrote: post #19

komali2 wrote: post #7

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While I appreciate you doing this, is this not "reprinting without permission?" EDIT: Downvotes could mean many things. The next person planning on hitting the downvote button, could you spare for me a brief reply letting me know why? EDIT2: Ugh, now I'm the "downvote edit guy." Obviously irrelevant now, but I don't want to remove the first edit and screw over people saying "I downvoted you because x," so, apologies…

Why are you taking it upon yourself to say such a thing? You're doing free work for the legal industry. Fighting copyright monopolies is hard enough without adding Stockholm syndrome to the mix.

Post by abritinthebay » Wed, Feb 07, 2018, 7:12 PM UTC

vxNsr wrote: post #18

Interesting that he named his daughter after himself. I guess having a unisex name had its benefits. More importantly,I agree that reddit's public perception had changed a lot in the last year, it went from seeming like a boys club where others were tolerated to being totally nondinominational. Obviously there are still some subs that are pretty insular but for the most part as they've grown they've gotten nicer.

Post by JumpCrisscross » Wed, Feb 07, 2018, 7:14 PM UTC

ddevault wrote: post #11

komali2 wrote: post #7

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While I appreciate you doing this, is this not "reprinting without permission?" EDIT: Downvotes could mean many things. The next person planning on hitting the downvote button, could you spare for me a brief reply letting me know why? EDIT2: Ugh, now I'm the "downvote edit guy." Obviously irrelevant now, but I don't want to remove the first edit and screw over people saying "I downvoted you because x," so, apologies…

Working around paywalls is a sanctioned HN passtime, and paywalls without workarounds are banned (though I have never seen this enforced, much to my displeasure).

Post by virtuexru » Wed, Feb 07, 2018, 7:16 PM UTC

abritinthebay wrote: post #25

vxNsr wrote: post #18

Interesting that he named his daughter after himself. I guess having a unisex name had its benefits. More importantly,I agree that reddit's public perception had changed a lot in the last year, it went from seeming like a boys club where others were tolerated to being totally nondinominational. Obviously there are still some subs that are pretty insular but for the most part as they've grown they've gotten nicer.

Not... really. The Donald/GamerGate/alt-right/troll factor has got immeasurably worse over the last 2 years. They’ve done nothing about it - in fact seem to tacitly be ok with it (preferring the useless “leave them in their own space” approach that has kept failing for years ) Reddit is doing far far worse than even Twitter at combatting these issues. At least Twitter seems to be (kinda ineffectually) trying.