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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 bob_theslob646 »

minimaxir wrote: post #187
throwaway427 wrote: post #44

I will often scope google searches for product reviews or food/recipe/diet/fitness knowledge to reddit. This is not the sole research I do but it does tend to be pretty high quality data. I would not be surprised if Reddit is an ML/AI dataset gold mine.

Reddit's public-facing data is very useful for ML/AI. On the data science end, you can do a lot to gauge important topics and user behavior: https://minimaxir.com/2018/09/modeling-link-aggregators/ On the silly AI-end, I made a subreddit consisting only of text-generating RNNs: https://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditNN/ Reddit's internal data is even more robust.

>Reddit's public-facing data is very useful for ML/AI.

assuming that the users generating the data are humans and not bots....

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

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Post by baggachipz »

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…

> Where you fall on the line, from "no abortions, ever" to "abortion up to a week after birth, no questions asked"

This is the false dichotomy so often pushed by right-wing ideologues. Literally nobody on any side of the abortion debate advocates for "abortions up to a week after birth" or anywhere close to that. This sort of boolean thinking is the root of our (especially current) toxic political climate.

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

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Post by gruturo »

josteink wrote: post #271
ChrisSD wrote: post #98

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But the AMP pages give them preferential treatment in Google search results. I doubt they'd want to give that up.

So you are saying Google is blackmailing websites into having a terrible user-experience? I guess everbody sucks on this new, modern and JS-USB-enabled (thanks again Google!) web.

Yes.

AMP is an absolute cancer and its adoption would probably be 0% if google didn’t forcefully shove it down everyone’s throat. (And they are very good at learning from their own history, because that totally worked with Google+.)

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

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Post by Zecar »

dragonwriter wrote: post #564
burfog wrote: post #485

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The antisemitism accusation is completely over-the-top ridiculous. Trump's own daughter is a Jew. Trump moved the embassy to Jerusalem, and not one democrat showed up for the ceremony. There are a couple openly antisemitic members of congress now, Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., and Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn. Louis Farrakhan hasn't even been disowned. This is a case of projection if there ever was one.

> Trump's own daughter is a Jew. She's also a woman, but I don't think anyone would see that as sufficient to refute the claim that Trump is a misogynist. Not that Trump was even referred to here except as a victim of the popular act of mocking politicians appearance. > Trump moved the embassy to Jerusalem Being a Christian Zionist, or politically pandering to Christian Zionists, isn't incompatible with anti-Semitism…

Ok so what exactly has he done that IS anti-semetic then?

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

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Post by 0xffff2 »

wyldfire wrote: post #789
0xffff2 wrote: post #513

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Could you elaborate? I've managed to avoid the redesign completely, and I haven't noticed any comments that appear to be rendered incorrectly.

The one that keeps coming up is how 'code' is rendered. Old reddit uses four leading spaces for a code block and IIRC new reddit uses triple-backtick. It's probably slightly different, not-quite-100% compatible markdown dialects. Admittedly it's a problem more common on the more technical subreddits.

Ah. I have noticed that one actually, but I chalked it up to someone confusing Github/SO/Reddit markdown. Didn't realize that Reddit itself was inconsistent.

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

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Post by r721 »

minimaxir wrote: post #264
marknadal wrote: post #46

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Max, would you be willing to evaluate Reddit alternatives? One is https://notabug.io/ after the Aaron Swarz quote, has seen hypergrowth since it started a few months ago using our P2P tech.

You emailed me about this so I'll reply here: I call shenanigans on the hypergrowth, where the metrics you sent me imply ~1 million pageviews per month yet there is barely any engagement or new/original content on the site itself. (and the few comments there appear to be very Voat-esque) Semi-related, I dislike straight-up Reddit/Hacker News clones , including the UI. If Reddit/HN has enough issue to warrant a compet…

I think ~1 million pageviews (according to SimilarWeb: https://www.similarweb.com/website/notabug.io) is notabug.io+snew.notabug.io (see subdomains section: snew.notabug.io 97.85% notabug.io 2.15%).

So notabug itself is 2% of 1 million ~ 20k pageviews.

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