As one of the most addictive sites on the internet, Im surprised the valuation is that much low.
Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3B valuation
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A lot of subreddits had that happen to them. It's sad because they are choosing who can speak and who cannot.
Perhaps interestingly, this is exactly what people criticize Twitter/Jack for not doing.
The problem is, it's generally different people in those cases. These two groups are fundamentally opposed, and satisfying them both is impossible.
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#633Reddit is going to challenge Facebook.
I have started to lose interest in Reddit too. I never thought I'd say that but it's way more noise than signal these days too.
I have also grown to prefer reading books and time away from screens more and more.
A tech backlash is underway for millions of people in the developed world. A sense of burnout seems to be common among under 40 year olds.
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Reddit is still a haven for the far-right. It really leaves a bad taste in my mouth that they are tolerated there.
While this may be true, Reddit's "free speech" ethos has been part of its DNA from day 1. Reddit has also gone a long way to getting rid of the most egregious content (I mean, jailbait???) What would you suggest the alternative is? I think the real problem is that society is coming to terms with the fact that anonymous free speech isn't all it's cracked up to be.
Jailbait was tacky and creepy, but in line with what you have on Instagram.
It pales in comparison to the virulent racism and sexism that still pervades the site (not confined to any subreddit)
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Perhaps interestingly, this is exactly what people criticize Twitter/Jack for not doing.
The problem is, it's generally different people in those cases. These two groups are fundamentally opposed, and satisfying them both is impossible.
You're right, when GP says "people want less X for Y" and I say "people want more X for Z," we aren't talking about the same "people."
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Reddit is still a haven for the far-right. It really leaves a bad taste in my mouth that they are tolerated there.
you mean alt right. Alt right is the racism and tariff producing political force. I would hope you don't have a bad taste from right leaning economics. Not even China can deny the power of Free Markets.
China is not a free market. It is a state controlled market.
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If their API is killed I think Reddit's done for. I wouldn't use it if I were forced to use the official app myself, sure many others wouldn't either. Folk would probably move over to something like voat.co
Voat is appalling and revels in its terribleness. There has to be something better to migrate to.
The most promising general reddit equivalent I've seen so far is tildes.net. It's the first time I've seen a fork of the reddit model with some actually fresh ideas. However, like all of the hundreds of alternatived, this site is far below the critical mass required to make browsing it regularly worthwhile.
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Reddit played a big part in the 2016 USA elections that crowned Trump. Reddit had to change its front page algorithm to avoid having Trump content near the top of the page for almost the whole time. The subreddit in question organized itself to mass-upvote certain posts at certain times, and Reddit wasn't prepared for such massive, non-organic influence. I wonder how big of a part the Russian bots and trolls played.…
Reddit by and large was actively against Trump during 2016 and thereafter.
As was a majority of the country, so that's unsurprising.
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/r/all potentially could have anything pop up, no?
I could be wrong but it always (in my recollection, so only going back a few years) excluded nsfw? When I last visited even going to a fully nsfw subreddit all the media was blurred out, so you might have NSFL titles .. but if you're that timid then probably any site with UGC is going to be a struggle.
It use to show up in my /r/all feed when NSFW filtering was off. Definitely stood out among the other NSFW content you would be scrolling past.
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I'll take issue with that. For all Clippy's interpretation problems (way ahead of their time), it was still trying to facilitate actions that were useful to you (not Microsoft). Dark patterns are defined by trying to willfully get you to do something that's counter to your own intent.
What's the difference, if the result is the same? Do you not think that the employees who write big "use the app!" banners believe they're doing what's best for the user? As for Clippy, it's not hard to design a straightforward auto-correction feature, which detects what you typed and suggests a useful addition or replacement. Google, Apple, etc., all have their own designs that work perfectly well. I have trouble se…
You are ignoring the general population's and the industry's attitude toward computing metaphors and cartoons in the 1990s. What do you imagine is the exploitative profit motive of Clippy? Microsoft fido get more revenue when you formatted your document as a resume or whatever.