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Why publish this number now? Makes me think they're looking for buyers or to go public. Which would be the easiest way to make the owners, who have the only say about selling it, very rich indeed compared to trying to show nice ads to a critical audience.
Reddit is garbage now. Every remotely interesting discussion gets locked by moderators. Every interesting subreddit gets deleted. So you’re left with content that is diluted to appeal to the lowest common denominator. It’s sad, it used to be a great place to read intelligent discussions from a variety of perspectives, a lot like HN is today but with a broader scope. But today that’s gone.
Only if you find racism, misogyny, doxing, foreign infiltration, and hate interesting.
Good for Reddit, but I'm becoming increasingly disillusioned with the entire site and how it's managed. The astroturfing isn't even subtle and the same few dozens of accounts dominate the front page day in and day out. The content on the frontpage, r/popular, r/all is starting to congeal into screenshots of tweets. The mods of the biggest subreddits don't seem to care if the content that gets posted actually lives up…
> At this point I'm convinced Reddit's platform is being used as a propaganda tool, with the goal of bombarding users with the same views in every major subreddit. There's an entire cottage industry dedicated to doing reputation management for brands on platforms like Reddit. I don't think Reddit cares that they aren't using their ad platform directly, because the companies that manipulate Reddit buy awards for their…
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> Didn't they champion themselves as the bastions of free speech at one point? Didn't liberals too?
No one has a right to a private platform. Facebook banned QAnon, so did Youtube. They can, frankly, fuck off. Public good is a consideration.
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I think the biggest existential risk to reddit is their mod structure. There is no effective mechanism for getting rid of bad mods, users just have to spin off into a new subreddit.
> users just have to spin off into a new subreddit. Which then get taken over by SJW mods after some time any way.
There are many pathological flavors of bad mods, and reddit's mod system is poor at handling all of them.
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I agree that it seems like it's ripe for disruption. Time for another Digg (which was what reddit was supposed to be) -- maybe with a mobile-first user experience (reddit is trash on a phone).
rather than digg, I'd like to see another stumbleupon
Good for Reddit, but I'm becoming increasingly disillusioned with the entire site and how it's managed. The astroturfing isn't even subtle and the same few dozens of accounts dominate the front page day in and day out. The content on the frontpage, r/popular, r/all is starting to congeal into screenshots of tweets. The mods of the biggest subreddits don't seem to care if the content that gets posted actually lives up…
The biggest subreddits have always been awful. The best way to use reddit is to subscribe to niche subreddits, unsubscribe to the big ones, and avoid the temptation to see the /popular or /all pages.
On a side note, really hope reddit's engineering team doesn't kill off their 'old.reddit.com' domain though. That's probably the only thing keeping me from dumping reddit altogether (aside from their API-powered custom reddit apps made by indie devs for Android).
Why is Reddit’s UI still getting worse? I have to click a link like 4 times on mobile for it to register, and I get errors for about 20% of links. Sometimes links take me the comments and not the content for some reason, particularly with images and videos.
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If you have an account, you can just flip a switch in the settings that disables the new UI.
I just signed in, I'm in the new UI, there is nothing in my settings to turn it off.
There's also "Use new Reddit as my default experience" if your looking at the setting in old reddit, and you want to turn that off.