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Re: Reddit files to go public

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Post by mschuster91 »

sombremesa wrote: post #342
nunez wrote: post #334

Good! I‘ll go long on them. Reddit is the ONLY place on the Internet where you can simultaneously watch garbage recycled content from TikTok and visit extremely-niche and highly knowledgeable communities in the same session. Heck, I get my HN updates from Reddit now. Facebook/Instagram/TikTok are nothing like this in that the info you get is wholly dependent on your social graph. Twitter has very high quality content…

> Twitter has very high quality content Can you give me an example? I have zero followers/following on Twitter and just use Tweetdeck so I'd like to know what I should be looking for.

@foone is always a good bet, if you are interested in old technology.

Re: Reddit files to go public

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Post by colordrops »

siruncledrew wrote: post #367

Reddit has definitely had noticeable changes over the past 5+ years as they’ve gone through further VC rounds of funding that demand more ROI-centric changes. I can’t imagine the ways it will change as a public company once numbers are public to scrutiny and the shareholder makeup shifts. It seems the intrinsic problem with platforms like Reddit (at least from what’s been witnessed over the last 8 years) is that they…

Good, reddit is a stagnant control-freak dinosaur that has monopolized forums and needs to be disrupted.

Re: Reddit files to go public

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Post by chx »

silisili wrote: post #340
discardable_dan wrote: post #331

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is the Gell-Mann amnesia effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Crichton#GellMannAmnes...

Fascinating, thanks! This got me to thinking though...almost every news outlet flubs covering deeply technical things folks here would be familiar with, and we all have a laugh. But we get our news from them and generally believe it, so do we all suffer from it to some extent?

No, this effect is, to quote itself, baloney.

The underlying presumption of it is every person working at a paper is equally wrong about the topic they write.

However, most newspapers are focused on politics and so those might be better.

I would not expect a good analysis on the Palestinian conflict from Linus Tech Tips nor a good analysis on the latest graphics cards from Foreign Affairs.

Re: Reddit files to go public

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Post by BbzzbB »

pyuser583 wrote: post #306
DantesKite wrote: post #250

The larger subreddits have problems, but Reddit has done a remarkable job of collecting people with niche interests into one area. I wouldn't discount their success and future success (as much as I'd like to). What's odd is they haven't stopped growing. It's just been linear user growth. They could literally do nothing and the site would still grow. It's closer to Wikipedia than a social network in some respects. And…

Reddit is my go to place for local news. There is so little coverage of local news outside big cities. The coffee-house atmosphere of the local sub I’d very refreshing and informative. Sadly, many of the bigger subs have less and less quality. There’s a post I remember from about 2010 that blew my mind in the /r/philosophy subreddit. Now /r/philosophy is all crap, and I can’t event find that article.

I don't know about r/philosophy, but if it's grown too large to be usable, as many do, look for subsets of philosophy (by genre, philosopher, etc). I'm sure there are more niche subs with decent communities.

Re: Reddit files to go public

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Post by [deleted] »

discardable_dan wrote: post #311
throwaway1777 wrote: post #266

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Taking shots at the engineers is too far. Reddit is about a million times more stable than it used to be a few years ago. Also I don’t think Reddit or the Internet needs “saving”. They’re both more successful than ever by any common metric whether we like the direction they’re going or not.

I have a 10-year-old reddit account. When it was static pages served out of lisp, it was rock-solid. Their rewrite got to the instability you're describing, and it never really recovered.

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Re: Reddit files to go public

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Post by colordrops »

Rendello wrote: post #39
ferdowsi wrote: post #33

Congratulations folks! I'll say that Reddit has become one of my favorite sites to visit occasionally and I feel they've earned their success. I honestly feel it is a positive factor in my life, for the little I use it. There's really excellent content to be had, like well moderated educational content at subreddits like r/AskHistorians and r/COVID. I've learned a lot from hobby communities that are hard to find else…

Reddit already has embedded GIF comments, ie. https://old.reddit.com/r/InsanePeopleQuora/comments/kip08x/w...

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Re: Reddit files to go public

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Post by mschuster91 »

throwawaysea wrote: post #366
discardable_dan wrote: post #302

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Just to pick this one out: > - remove the "influencer" aspects of the site. People don't need a profile with a custom picture, don't need to post to their /u/ board when they should be posting on a reddit reddit. I think this was added for the OnlyFans pipeline. There is a massive porn community on Reddit, and the entirety of it thrives on this feature. Whether either of us want that, Reddit's decided it is a good an…

Didn’t Reddit ban a lot of the porn content during the same “progressive” ban wave they banned gender critical, the Donald, etc?

It's rare that Reddit bans nsfw content, the only major porn ban I'm aware of is r/jailbait and that one was banned for very good reasons. r/TheFappening and r/creepshots weren't porn but sexual exploitation.

In any case, these three bans were many years ago.

Re: Reddit files to go public

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Post by colordrops »

mightyquacks wrote: post #210

Reddit used to be amazing Now it's like a red flag in your resume if you worked for reddit Then they made a whole mess on the homepage. This is what happens when you hire mediocre engineers. Its like junior engineers who cant write code. Reddit mobile is not bad, but stop trying to make me install it. There are people who only wants to use web. But your web engineers are garbage their ads is incredibly bad. there are…

> So the trillion dollar question is, what's next to replace reddit

Discord is taking some of their traffic. But it sucks as a replacement since the threading model doesn't match a true forum.

Re: Reddit files to go public

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Post by theshrike79 »

mschuster91 wrote: post #371
sombremesa wrote: post #342

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> Twitter has very high quality content Can you give me an example? I have zero followers/following on Twitter and just use Tweetdeck so I'd like to know what I should be looking for.

@foone is always a good bet, if you are interested in old technology.

Just be prepared for "this tweet thread should've been a blogpost" -style tweeting :)

(Yes they have ADHD and this helps etc etc, I know).

Re: Reddit files to go public

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Post by dustymcp »

aahortwwy wrote: post #370
nunez wrote: post #334

Good! I‘ll go long on them. Reddit is the ONLY place on the Internet where you can simultaneously watch garbage recycled content from TikTok and visit extremely-niche and highly knowledgeable communities in the same session. Heck, I get my HN updates from Reddit now. Facebook/Instagram/TikTok are nothing like this in that the info you get is wholly dependent on your social graph. Twitter has very high quality content…

> Reddit can fit nicely into the metaverse Why do people keep talking about the metaverse like it already exists and is a huge part of our future? It's vaporware right now. Are we all so susceptible to marketing that we've just accepted that if Meta is going all-in on a thing it must be both real and a guaranteed win?

I have 1 Friend that has var goggles, and he does not like the chat funktion it just seems like its dead in the water unless var Prices come down hard..
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