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Reddit confirms $300M Series D led by China’s Tencent at $3B value

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Re: Reddit confirms $300M Series D led by China’s Tencent at $3B value

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Post by Bograff »

abnry wrote: post #20
derefr wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Reddit, like Usenet, or IRC, is just a collection of individual communities that happen to share an identity system. Expecting the (not-logged-in) Reddit front page to be “intellectual discourse” would be like expecting a random selection of Usenet posts or IRC chat-lines to be “intellectual discourse.” Try just visiting specific Reddit communities, rather than looking askew at the entire menagerie as if there was va…

This is very good advice. One of my most upvoted Hacker News comments was saying that creating an account and whitelisting the subreddits you want to read is a tremendous improvement on reddit. Funny thing to me is that it is really hard to isolate yourself in this way on Twitter. I've spent a lot of time trying to do this but politics always seems to leak through. One thing that has helped is by turning off retweets…

This may be more work than some are willing to do but I took the opposite approach. I browse /r/all almost exclusively but I've got RES filtering any subreddit I don't want to see in my feed again. The list of filters gets long.

Re: Reddit confirms $300M Series D led by China’s Tencent at $3B value

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Post by Sendotsh »

syntaxing wrote: post #72

Is there a good alternative to Reddit? I've been a pretty heavy user for almost a decade but they have been disappointing these past couple of years. I hate how their "principles" aren't consistent. They ban certain subreddit for certain violation while keeping others that fit the same exact category. They never provide an answer to the commuity either. Where do I go to now?! HN is my only safe haven left...

I'm still on half a dozen different forums. A few general chat ones, and a few specific to hobbies/interests.

If anything, the quality of them has gone up since most of the "I just want lulz" people went to reddit. The software is better than ever too, with Discourse and XenForo adding modern web features.

There's also a few "new reddits" like Tildes which are quite good.

No single one of the above replaces reddit as a whole, but combined I find it much more enjoyable than reddit these days.

Re: Reddit confirms $300M Series D led by China’s Tencent at $3B value

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Post by Zarel »

misiti3780 wrote: post #63
ihuman wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why not just buy a premium membership?

what is the benefit ?

Server-side filtering of /r/all is a Premium feature - or, at least, it was a Gold feature. I don't see a list of Premium features anywhere.

Re: Reddit confirms $300M Series D led by China’s Tencent at $3B value

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Post by pwaai »

throwaway46e21 wrote: post #148
peteretep wrote: post #65

I don’t know what it means for America, but what it apparently means for China is no more Chinese villains in films for an international audience

Honestly, as an Asian American, I actually prefer the villain characters as opposed to the new “sidekick/background” character trope. Hollywood writers and producers still know how to marginalize these new Chinese characters and unfortunately, it seems the Chinese audience is still naive to it. At least the villains had agency. These new Chinese sidekicks only purpose is to serve the “American” hero.

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Re: Reddit confirms $300M Series D led by China’s Tencent at $3B value

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Post by peter_retief »

Tencent is part owned by Naspers, originally a local South African media company who by some accounts have played a big part in the Tencent's success Quote from Reuters Founded in 1915, Naspers has transformed itself from an apartheid-era newspaper publisher into a 1.5 trillion rand ($127 billion) multinational with private equity-style investments in e-commerce platforms that also include OLX, the biggest classified sites in India and Brazil, and Russia’s Mail.ru.

Re: Reddit confirms $300M Series D led by China’s Tencent at $3B value

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Post by withhighprod »

colordrops wrote: post #178
yourbandsucks wrote: post #153

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That's a bit of a supremacist take, no offense. Maybe rather than complaining about it, we should actually build things? Maybe we should pay a schoolteacher more than 1/4 what an advertising optimizer makes?

No offense taken, but curious how you see it as supremacist.

I also see it supermacist, which in fact is true, USA still rules Japan more or less and have actual military base on Island that belongs to Japan.

Re: Reddit confirms $300M Series D led by China’s Tencent at $3B value

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Post by thosakwe »

abnry wrote: post #20
derefr wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Reddit, like Usenet, or IRC, is just a collection of individual communities that happen to share an identity system. Expecting the (not-logged-in) Reddit front page to be “intellectual discourse” would be like expecting a random selection of Usenet posts or IRC chat-lines to be “intellectual discourse.” Try just visiting specific Reddit communities, rather than looking askew at the entire menagerie as if there was va…

This is very good advice. One of my most upvoted Hacker News comments was saying that creating an account and whitelisting the subreddits you want to read is a tremendous improvement on reddit. Funny thing to me is that it is really hard to isolate yourself in this way on Twitter. I've spent a lot of time trying to do this but politics always seems to leak through. One thing that has helped is by turning off retweets…

Twitter’s content muring is useless in that it still shows quote Tweets if anyone you mute in your timeline. I have POTUS, Tomi Lahren, and several others blocked and muted, yet they still appear in my timeline because of the infamous “slam dunk quote tweet” phenomenon.

It’s not just hard to filter things out on Twitter; it’s downright impossible.

Re: Reddit confirms $300M Series D led by China’s Tencent at $3B value

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Post by icelancer »

doorbellguy wrote: post #162
theNJR wrote: post #109

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Yes, it's big and growing quickly. The structure of kids memeing kids (who are told to do so by the TikTok AI and marketing team) plays well and spreads quickly.

I agree, apps like these and previously musically (sp?) are extremely shallow and promote narcissistic traits in gullible teenagers. Glad I was not a teen in 2019.

There were plenty of other mechanisms whenever you were in high school to promote "narcissistic traits in gullible teenagers," a sentence which is probably the most "old man yells at clouds" thing I've heard in a week.

Re: Reddit confirms $300M Series D led by China’s Tencent at $3B value

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Post by bredren »

o10449366 wrote: post #27
fermienrico wrote: post #8

I've seen Reddit degrade painfully over last 8-10 years. It was full of intelligent comments, insight and unique perspective from people all over the world. Browsing the front page and reading the comments makes me sad that instead of intellectual discourse, we have a 3 billion dollar meme making machine. I wish to keep HN away from the masses as much as I'd like a broader perspective in the light of how things go wi…

10+ year user, I only consistently browse ~3 subreddits now. I realized it was time to move on when I was using Reddit Enhancement Suite more than Reddit itself. My subreddit filter list (so not including keyword filters, blocked users, domain filters, etc.) is currently 1,391, which translates to 2 or 3 unfiltered posts out of 25 if I browse r/all. "Why don't you just browse your own front page instead of r/all?" I…

I disagree.

My main is a 12+ year account of reddit. I think the site is more useful than it ever has been.

I’m in a variety of subs, genres spanning many interests and have mod on several.

Sure there are accounts focused on upvotes. But not only can this be corrected, you see this on all social platforms now.

TikTok, for its youth and growth has this and that platform—though it boasts leading edge media presentation—is completely without the real and deep comment threads you find all of the time on reddit.

You find more “shitpost” content and commentators on major networks, local news and even newspapers as they attempt to keep up with what grows out of subs every day.

There is stuff discussed in subs that is incredibly serious and you won’t find talked about as openly anywhere else on the internet.

If anything the site is undervalued and growing.

Re: Reddit confirms $300M Series D led by China’s Tencent at $3B value

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Post by toomuchtodo »

doorbellguy wrote: post #163
samstave wrote: post #130

What we need to see is if people like /u/gallowboob get any of this funding

Who or what is that?

Marketing professional who has mastered manipulating Reddit audiences for corporate clients.
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