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Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3B valuation

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Re: Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3B valuation

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Post by incongruity »

noir_lord wrote: post #566
rjbwork wrote: post #473

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And that's fine. I absolutely can't stand the new layout, so if that happens I'll stop using it. Probably not good for their metrics for a 13 year user of the service to stop using it I'd guess. I don't even block ads on it. And I sometimes click them if they're relevant (which, lets face it, they are these days).

11 for me and what used to be 30-60 minutes a day (I like certain subreddits /r/programming /r/chess /r/ Etc.) is maybe 15 and not at all for days now. I miss old reddit, nothing else really fills the niche in a unified way.

So where do you go instead?

Reddit and Facebook both have some hold for me because of niche communities that they both let me aggregate/monitor/interact with easily, without going to a myriad of websites. I really don’t want to have to do that - in some cases, I’m not even sure I can find comparable replacements.

Re: Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3B valuation

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Post by WhompingWindows »

wowzap wrote: post #17
brettgriffin wrote: post #5

I've given up most social media but have become obsessed with Reddit. No matter how much I use it, I'm constantly amazed that I can be immediately connected with the most knowledgeable and enthusiastic people on virtually any subject I care about. I'm not a fan of the redesign or their push to look at other social media platforms, but I understand the direction they have to go to build revenue.

Seriously? I just assume most people on there are in high school, it seems like a place where the lowest common denominator ideas get upvoted and everything else gets nailed.

Well, based on my favorite subreddits, let's see:

/r/starcraft: doesn't have nearly as much good discussion as TeamLiquid, but TL's forums are not easy to trawl through. Great coverage of tournaments/announcements tho

/r/personalfinance: really great here, lot of professional financial experts drop knowledge bombs. I've improved my financial life oodles just reading through this.

/r/piano: lots of great/interesting posts, mostly people playing pieces or shots of their set-ups, not too much memery but people try a little bit. Quite a few better/more experienced players than I am to answer my Q's.

The main thing I hate is memes. They are very low effort, many of them are inside jokes/highly meta, and the humor is usually bargain-basement, not very funny. If you can avoid those subreddits where memery takes over, then you have a better experience IMO.

Re: Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3B valuation

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Post by neuronic »

majewsky wrote: post #785
joefkelley wrote: post #521

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I agree that this process sucks. Do you think it's possible to do 1 and 2 without 3? How could a business that remains focused on benefiting free users compete/profit?

> Do you think it's possible to do 1 and 2 without 3? Wikimedia comes to mind. They're by no means perfect, but they're the closest match I can think of.

You are conveniently leaving out the second portion of the comment which directly asks how profit is possible in such a manner.

One answer to this is it is very hard because your users would need to pay fees instead of being sucked into ads en masse by dark patterns. And who is willing to pay a monthly subscription fee for reddit?

Wikimedia just gets donations instead because they provide useful content. The majority of reddit is memes and images so people will just migrate to Instagram. A faithful rest might pay, but not enough to reach a $3bn valuation.

Re: Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3B valuation

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Post by Max_Mustermann »

simias wrote: post #64
minimaxir wrote: post #16

I've been a fan of Reddit for a very long time (as the amount of data science work I've done with their data can attest to), but lately it seems like the incentives between Reddit as a business and Reddit as a community leader are not aligned, and that is a problem. The increasing amount of dark patterns Reddit has been employing lately is concerning. (recent example: Reddit now gates content in mobile Safari to push…

I've seen this dialog (the misleading "[OPEN] [CONTINUE]" one) on mobile Firefox as well. Besides that you have the pulsating "open in the app" at the top of every page. Fortunately I have u-block origin so I could just add a few filters to get rid of that nonsense. It doesn't solve the terrible performance however (because apparently you need a top-of-the-line smartphone to load and display a few kB of plaintext com…

> a few filters to get rid of that nonsense

Care to share?

Re: Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3B valuation

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Post by specialist »

TheRealDunkirk wrote: post #786
rootusrootus wrote: post #603

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Does advocating for single-payer healthcare, free community college, marriage equality, pro-choice, and higher tax rates for wealthy individuals constitute 'far left'? Serious question. I have in mind what I would think of as far left, but I don't see those folks are particularly well represented in the United States.

I consider myself a right-leaning libertarian, and I am totally on-board with everything you said, save one. The more I ruminate on it, the more I think abortion is the single issue that encapsulates the political dichotomy of left vs. right in the US. Where you fall on the line, from "no abortions, ever" to "abortion up to a week after birth, no questions asked" readily defines how "right" or "left" you are, accordi…

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