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Reddit valued at $6B on a $250M round

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Re: Reddit valued at $6B on a $250M round

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Post by h0p3 »

frakkingcylons wrote: post #66

What feels like a big missed opportunity for Reddit is having a front-page without the low-quality subreddits. People often say to just never visit /r/popular because of all the garbage, but it's unfortunately the only way to discover subreddits when you’re not looking for anything in particular. Sure, if you know what you're looking for, it's pretty easy to find the appropriate subreddit. But if you just want to wan…

Amazing. Adore it. May the workers own the means of production, including picking out what is salient. What are your thoughts on F2F networks of salience classification? Can I leverage my trust in others to help me see what matters most, and so on?

Re: Reddit valued at $6B on a $250M round

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Post by shmageggy »

1996 wrote: post #98
markdown wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Digg users had an attractive alternative to run to. Reddit users don't.

yet

It’s different now. As one of those Digg refugees who has now been looking to ditch reddit for a long time, there just isn’t a good, obvious reddit alternative in the same way there was a good, obvious Digg alternative. The internet is too grown up, too parceled out, the big players are too dominant.

Re: Reddit valued at $6B on a $250M round

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Post by edgyquant »

NoPicklez wrote: post #147
rkho wrote: post #63

Reddit is an intentionally designed dopamine machine with some areas of usefulness. There are pockets of great, high signal communities on Reddit that have not been unbundled. Discovery, however, is a mess. Some examples of some great subs: - HomeImprorvement is great for repair advice - Keto was helpful in my weight loss journey - Posture for, well, fixing my posture I've also bought and sold various digital and phy…

Could you not argue that HN is the same thing, just at a smaller scale? HN is essentially just a front page. Reddit just doesn't tailor itself to one particular type of discussion like HN does. But rather the dominant topics of discussion such as /r/funny frequently dominate the front page due to popularity. Reddit is really what you make of it and if you only subscribe to topics that interest you, it becomes a vastl…

The minimum karma requirements to downvote goes a long way on HN. I’d say they should add a limit to upvote as well, but that might make things worse idk.

Re: Reddit valued at $6B on a $250M round

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Post by hertzrat »

rkho wrote: post #63

Reddit is an intentionally designed dopamine machine with some areas of usefulness. There are pockets of great, high signal communities on Reddit that have not been unbundled. Discovery, however, is a mess. Some examples of some great subs: - HomeImprorvement is great for repair advice - Keto was helpful in my weight loss journey - Posture for, well, fixing my posture I've also bought and sold various digital and phy…

I used to search around for various forums to post in or find answers in. Over the years, the little forums vanished and all that’s left is Reddit and a few holdouts. The only real advantage of the Reddit model is that you don’t have to read 5 pages of flame war and off topic “how is your cat these days?” to find a good comment. If the average web forum sorted posts by upvotes instead of chronologically by default (while letting a user choose their preference), I think small forums would still be a lot more common - Eg, hn, stack overflow, etc

Re: Reddit valued at $6B on a $250M round

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dmode wrote: post #145

Reddit to me feels very undervalued. As witnessed by the GameStop saga and previously through the influence of r/D_T, Reddit has tremendous influence on modern society and shapes a lot of our narratives. They should be valued way over $6bn

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Re: Reddit valued at $6B on a $250M round

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Post by edgyquant »

pjscott wrote: post #156
throwawaysea wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> what I find awesome about reddit is its ability to connect people and really have group conversations on almost anything I see Reddit at its best in niche subreddits but it is far from a place to have conversations on almost anything. The site as a whole as well as most of the biggest subs have banned various topics or lines of discussion in a bid to align to progressive left political views.

If a subreddit forbids discussion of a topic, you probably wouldn't have been able to have a good conversation about it anyway. Don't go to the biggest subs! Avoid the places that have been taken over by the most aggressive enforcers of mass culture! Reddit's great redeeming virtue is that it's big enough for groups with more liberal discussion norms to flourish, if you can find them.

Yes but downvotes are annoying and the sub threads aren’t a good place for real discussions imo. I’d take an old fashion forum any day. It’s a shame that outside of history and science fiction there aren’t too many large forums anymore as Reddit has basically replaced them all. Reddit has a serious meme problem (even on subs where they’re banned) and repetitive jokes often times derailing conversations as funny one liners get upvoted to the top (then replied to with funny one liners) as longer form posts get moved to the bottom.

Re: Reddit valued at $6B on a $250M round

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Post by edgyquant »

riantogo wrote: post #168
1996 wrote: post #98

Earlier quoted context omitted.

yet

My covid side gig is a modest attempt at starting something: https://discoflip.com

I went there and thought it looked interesting, but quit after it wanted me to login to view the technology channel. Allow people to view (but read only) and it would go a long way to helping you grow I think.
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