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Re: Reddit files to go public

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Post by Terr_ »

ItsMonkk wrote: post #459
IgorPartola wrote: post #217

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Ok I’ll bite. How would you fix Reddit? I have been using online forums for the past 20+ years and I know what you mean about communities like Reddit going from nerd heavy topics to primarily being the free advertising platform for onlyfans accounts and political hacks. But how would Reddit at this point stuff the genie back into the bottle? For that matter, if you don’t believe in Reddit’s long term success, there a…

They messed up when they made sub-reddits. Sub-reddits are a harmful combination of community and content. Popular content becomes a huge community, and all of the issues based on Dunbar's number happen as a result, which includes abuse of powers from the admins. Instead of using sub-reddits for content you should have tags. Communities should never be bigger than 150 people, and should not be limited to a single ide…

> Instead of using sub-reddits for content you should have tags

Then who prevents totally-unrelated trash from being deliberately misfiled under popular tags?

Subreddits are a way to farm out moderation without paying employees to do it.

Re: Reddit files to go public

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Post by ankit219 »

emodendroket wrote: post #346
ankit219 wrote: post #319

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> What's odd is they haven't stopped growing. It's just been linear user growth Most growth is driven by Google Search. It accounts for almost half of their traffic. At this point, SEO is their moat. The problem they have had is that they cant get most of the traffic to convert ie. create accounts and engage in those subreddits. That is still done by a small fraction of the traffic. As an experiment, if you create an…

> The problem they have had is that they cant get most of the traffic to convert ie. create accounts and engage in those subreddits. That is still done by a small fraction of the traffic. Is that really a problem? Any site like this is going to see the same dynamics. e.g., the vast majority of Stack Overflow users never make an account either.

A definite problem from a company's perspective when their model is ads and gold/donations, both of which require users to be logged in. This directly affects the number of users willing to participate in discussions - both in big subreddits and niche ones - and it risks some active users becoming dormant because they dont see enough reaction/response to what they have posted.

Stack Overflow is not the best comparison. In some cases yes, they are very similar, but mostly the reason for users to land on stack overflow is very different (solving a problem while working) than for users to land on a subreddit/post (looking for more info and satisfying curiosity via Google search - not always solving a problem)

Re: Reddit files to go public

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Post by ankit219 »

initplus wrote: post #393
ankit219 wrote: post #319

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> What's odd is they haven't stopped growing. It's just been linear user growth Most growth is driven by Google Search. It accounts for almost half of their traffic. At this point, SEO is their moat. The problem they have had is that they cant get most of the traffic to convert ie. create accounts and engage in those subreddits. That is still done by a small fraction of the traffic. As an experiment, if you create an…

If I want to search reddit content on my phone, I use google search because reddit's search sucks. But then I look like a non-converted user because I'm only logged in on the app not the mobile site.

you also count as one of the DAUs and MAUs - minimum 2, as one logged in and one not logged in, and maybe more if you use incognito to search for those comments, because reddit will treat that as a separate visit from a separate user I guess.

Re: Reddit files to go public

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Post by Borrible »

namrog84 wrote: post #473
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?

Whenever I hear the word metaverse. I just replace it with the word "internet". Its nothing more than a way for a few companies to monetize a few extra things and become gate keepers to things that have neither on the internet. The metaverse is basically what the internet would be if it was invented today

> Whenever I hear the word metaverse. I just replace it with the word "internet".

Does there happen to be a browser extension to automate this?

Re: Reddit files to go public

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Post by riffraff »

shawabawa3 wrote: post #429
makeitdouble wrote: post #387

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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)

my thought exactly. We've had virtual worlds and communities as long as we've had the internet, and the idea of carrying "stuff" from one to the other never worked out.

So my bet is that there will never be The Metaverse just like there never was The Forum, The MMORPG, The MUD.

We may still have useful/fun stuff in specific VR worlds, of course.

Re: Reddit files to go public

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Post by Oddskar »

bogota wrote: post #268
teaearlgraycold wrote: post #251

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They’re all Bay Area engineers. So switching jobs is an inconvenience with a raise on the other side. The changes aren’t their ideas but it’s not like they can’t refuse. They can just work anywhere else. They probably don’t care.

I mean… browse through HN for the day. According to its users you shouldn’t work at any company that pays well because they are all evil. At a certain point you just don’t care what people are writing on forums.

Yes its truly awful for you to be held accountable for your place of work and its impact on the world. Completely unacceptable.

Re: Reddit files to go public

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Post by askvictor »

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…

Eventually, it will go the same way Facebook has gone, and email before that. Was once fun and useful, now, at best, a tool and a chore.

Re: Reddit files to go public

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Post by loa_in_ »

smolder wrote: post #489
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…

Stop taking "the metaverse" seriously, please. It's a rich idiots dream, like a digital Fordlandia. I can hardly blame people for trying to follow trends, because following trends can be lucrative. "The metaverse" is just not the one to follow. It's nintendos virtualboy, vision getting ahead of substance, fixing problems we don't have. If it succeeds at all, it will be a testament to societies ability to bend to the…

I'm getting really angry at companies squatting names that are basically common nouns. This practice should be banned. It's something I though was more cyberdystopian-esque not reality, but here we are in the future.

Re: Reddit files to go public

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Post by thinkingemote »

dragonwriter wrote: post #471
thinkingemote wrote: post #462

Would this be the first public porn platform? A flippant remark, but Reddit is a not insignificant facilitator of pornography alongside many great safe for work subreddits and we will probably see them trying to stop this before or after going public. That or changing the terms of use for users to be 18 from the current 13.

> Would this be the first public porn platform? Not even close. > Reddit is a huge publisher of pornography No, they aren't. Section 230 says so.

I changed the phrase to

"not insignificant facilitator of pornography" to be more relative.

What a publisher is, today, is a bit muddy imo.

Re: Reddit files to go public

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Post by gremlinsinc »

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…

I feel like there's some of the most foul...obnoxious...people on Reddit...but at least they're not the same people in FB groups... which is to say they're my obnoxious sycophant people.

In other words...social media can really showcase the best/worst of people but Reddit kinda at least can give some intellectual content and discussion. I also kinda just 'get' the snark/culture of reddit as it were, and interestingly enough it doesn't matter my political persuasion as there's enough different corners of reddit to find where I fit in. People are also more willing to share their real thoughts when there's some measure of anonymity whether that's good or bad, who knows.

Reddit + HN is basically my source of news/new thoughts. Best part of reddit is that topics are generally single groups, where there's like 5 yard sale groups on FB JUST for my city in a county with 45k people in rural utah, on FB nothing's stopping there being 2 or 200 SLC groups, but on reddit - everyone just would go to the one w/ the most subscribers/content/activity....

FB is nothing but memes or people trying to sell something. Of course Reddit going public will probably make it incentivized to turn more of a profit and go that way as well.

My only real gripe w/ Reddit is that I can't use the login via Relay on Android because something's jacked w/ my main account... if I go to user/prefs I get an error after a long wait...and it's been reported for a few months and no fix...

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