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Re: Reddit files to go public

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Post by yeahh8hjd » Thu, Dec 16, 2021, 7:36 AM UTC

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?

You are being too literal.

Re: Reddit files to go public

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Post by mdp2021 » Thu, Dec 16, 2021, 7:38 AM UTC

starik36 wrote: post #354

Freskis wrote: post #327

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This is a moral conundrum. Yes, some of the smaller sub-reddits are good, but by participating, you legitimize the conflict/fakenews/horrorshow that is the main website. It's like saying you enjoy the trains running on time in Nazi Germany whilst ignoring the rest of what the regime is.

It was Italy that got trains running on time. Get your fascist regimes straight.

It is rhetorically pretty direct to talk about "Brain scientists and rocket surgeons".

Re: Reddit files to go public

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Post by aahortwwy » Thu, Dec 16, 2021, 7:42 AM UTC

qaq wrote: post #416

aahortwwy wrote: post #370

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> 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?

It does exist in the form of Roblox :)

Roblox could be considered a metaverse, sure[0], but the metaverse implies a ubiquitousness that no offering so far has achieved.

[0] And, honestly, I see Meta's play here as the Google Plus to Roblox's Facebook.

Re: Reddit files to go public

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Post by donio » Thu, Dec 16, 2021, 7:43 AM UTC

Karrot_Kream wrote: post #355

discardable_dan wrote: post #311

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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.

The Python rewrite happened 16 years ago. 10 years ago, there was probably an order of magnitude (or more!) less traffic and this is probably what causes most of their instability.

10 years ago was about the time when they first moved to Cassandra and that was a pretty rough period. Lots of rose tinted glasses around here. Reddit has had plenty of stability and scaling problems during the early years.

Re: Reddit files to go public

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Post by geuis » Thu, Dec 16, 2021, 7:47 AM UTC

metamet wrote: post #273

donio wrote: post #232

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The fact that old.reddit.com continues to be available suggests that they did.

To this point, I would probably stop using the desktop version of the site if they nixed old.reddit.com.

Same. I only use old mode for both mobile and desktop. It’s super annoying that about once a week they drop me back into their utterly awful mobile web experience. Then have to go back to settings and choose request desktop site yet again.

Most recently they’ve switched image galleries to using their new desktop design, so simply trying to view images often pops up this new and totally incompatible experience. Earlier today the left/right nav icons stopped working so I just gave up on trying to view those images.

Re: Reddit files to go public

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Post by jdgoesmarching » Thu, Dec 16, 2021, 7:47 AM UTC

pithon wrote: post #335

anyfactor wrote: post #258

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My personal last strands of hope for Reddit are - their API which is still available to public without hoops to jump through. The downvote button. And the usabillity of old.reddit. Some communities that are still well moderated and strikes a good balance between open to questions and not open to stupid questions. Beyond that I stopped using mainstream reddit as a value source.

I only last as long there as old.reddit.com does.

I last as long as the APIs allow Apollo to be amazing.

Re: Reddit files to go public

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Post by eloisius » Thu, Dec 16, 2021, 7:47 AM UTC

yeahh8hjd wrote: post #421

aahortwwy wrote: post #370

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> 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?

You are being too literal. Meta Verse Self referential artistic expression Artistic abstraction of self; ones ideation, concepts; is not limited to Zoom with Mario64 heads. Extracting the idea of a web of documents into web 1… Any concept can be a metaverse. The creator outputs an abstraction arising within self. Zuckerberg has a specific thing to sell. Don’t go coming up with your own metaverse to play in.

Exactly /s

Re: Reddit files to go public

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Post by perth » Thu, Dec 16, 2021, 7:48 AM UTC

briga wrote: post #236

henning wrote: post #200

The Reddit of 2006 where tutorials on generating HTML in Lisp rocket to the top of the homepage is long gone. I can't imagine investing in an ad company that is fueled by clickbait and outrage the way Reddit is. Plus, some percentage of the userbase will always run aggressive ad blockers and be impossible to effectvely monetize. However, my brain works very differently from other people's, so I could be wrong.

> some percentage of the userbase will always run aggressive ad blockers and be impossible to effectvely monetize Can’t block ads when they’re disguised as user content. Viral marketers have had a heyday hawking their products on Reddit

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guerrilla_marketing

Re: Reddit files to go public

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Post by shawabawa3 » Thu, Dec 16, 2021, 7:53 AM UTC

makeitdouble wrote: post #387

aahortwwy wrote: post #370

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> 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?

Meta has made a full announcement of vaporware, but the metaverse is specifically not Meta's property, nor do they get to define what the metaverse is/will become. In that sense, I agree with you we should ignore the marketing, and I also think we should talk about the metaverse as we talk about the web, not as some rigid concept, but more a vague idea of a thing in VR.

There will not be "a metaverse" or "the metaverse"

They may be some competing metaverses, I doubt one will win out (I kind of doubt any will do well)

Re: Reddit files to go public

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Post by aahortwwy » Thu, Dec 16, 2021, 7:54 AM UTC

yeahh8hjd wrote: post #421

aahortwwy wrote: post #370

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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?

You are being too literal. Meta Verse Self referential artistic expression Artistic abstraction of self; ones ideation, concepts; is not limited to Zoom with Mario64 heads. Extracting the idea of a web of documents into web 1… Any concept can be a metaverse. The creator outputs an abstraction arising within self. Zuckerberg has a specific thing to sell. Don’t go coming up with your own metaverse to play in.

> Meta’s focus will be to bring the metaverse to life and help people connect, find communities and grow businesses.

> The metaverse will feel like a hybrid of today’s online social experiences, sometimes expanded into three dimensions or projected into the physical world. It will let you share immersive experiences with other people even when you can’t be together — and do things together you couldn’t do in the physical world. It’s the next evolution in a long line of social technologies, and it’s ushering in a new chapter for our company.

https://about.fb.com/news/2021/10/facebook-company-is-now-me...

> In the next decade, he thinks most people will be spending time in a fully immersive, 3D version of the internet that spans not just Meta’s hardware such as the Quest, but devices made by others. He’s pushing his teams to build technology that could one day let you show up in a virtual space as a full-bodied avatar, or appear as a hologram of yourself in the real-world living room of your friend who lives across the planet.

https://www.theverge.com/22749919/mark-zuckerberg-facebook-m...

You can play semantics if you want. Meta, the company, have announced that they are building a thing. That thing is what I am talking about. It is vaporware right now. It it not a guaranteed win.