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Re: Reddit files to go public

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Post by nosianu »

a_bonobo wrote: post #415
nosianu wrote: post #381

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Who knows what's going on behind the scenes? Example: Last time I read /r/funny for a period I noticed a wave of "look at what funny thing I did with these Coke bottles" posts that were so obviously part of a marketing campaign that surely reddit admins noticed it too. I don't think they would allow that if they weren't in on it. In that case they may have even helped with the upvotes so no external service where you…

There's actually a good incentive for moderators to be in on this, as they aren't paid by reddit for their (in sometimes massive) unpaid labour. If a marketing company comes along and says, 'hey, you've done this so long, don't you think you should deserve some money? just let us run our campaign on your subreddit and we'll pay you!' quite a few moderators would agree. Admins might not notice.

> Admins might not notice.

They might not have noticed a few isolated cases, but they sure would have noticed the phenomenon as such by now. The company would have an even bigger incentive now to try to get such monetization for themselves instead of letting others make the money with their site.

Re: Reddit files to go public

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Post by NotPractical »

geuis wrote: post #425
metamet wrote: post #273

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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. Earlie…

https://github.com/tom-james-watson/old-reddit-redirect

Re: Reddit files to go public

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Post by Cthulhu_ »

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?

It's a hip marketing term that caught on like Hyperloop did, suddenly every time public transit was mentioned, so was Hyperloop.

But don't be fooled. It's Facebook. Don't be fooled by its rename either, it's still Facebook.

Re: Reddit files to go public

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Post by dageshi »

dataengineer56 wrote: post #501
dageshi wrote: post #486

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Facebook gets attacked because politicians believe it can be used to nudge peoples opinions en mass but in a way that's hard to detect. Reddit doesn't because everyone can see what's going on. You might not like it, but you can see it.

I'd have agreed with you 10 years ago when the average Redditor was arguably smarter than your typical social media user and each subreddit's alliances were clear. These days I completely disagree and feel Reddit is more dangerous than other forms of social media. The average Redditor still believes that they're more intelligent and believes that they're seeing balanced information (because how can upvotes and downvo…

Reddit was never and has never been about balanced information, I think the entire purpose of the site was never balanced information it was what was most popular with a particular subs hive mind, 10 years ago we just had different echo chambers.

The thing that changed was that new generations of users started to use the site, younger millennials and gen z. And their echo chambers differ from the previous generation of reddit users echo chambers and are broadly incompatible because echo chambers usually edge to the extremes on both sides.

Re: Reddit files to go public

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Post by rvba »

eloisius wrote: post #348
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 have less rosy predictions about what this IPO will do. I doubt it will fund better search. In fact, I’m thinking it will push it more into the ‘relevancy’ territory where you get a slurry of slightly related results, incoherent reco sys content curation, and deviation from vote and time decay ranking in favor of inscrutable algorithmic content feed ordering. All these things will make Reddit more successful from a…

It will probably be the death of i.reddit.com and old.reddit.com

Re: Reddit files to go public

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Post by mschuster91 »

hatefulmoron wrote: post #434
mschuster91 wrote: post #377

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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.

Reddit has more recently banned NSFW subreddits that were considered excessively violent (/r/struggleporn) or pedophilic (/r/ageplaypenpals, which was just text based).

These are niche at best, definitely not "a lot of the porn content".

Re: Reddit files to go public

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Post by NotPractical »

vultour wrote: post #504
BLKNSLVR wrote: post #245

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I only use teddit.net to access reddit these days. On those odd occasions that I follow a link to the actual reddit site I'm reminded why I avoid it: - Pop-up to download app - Pop-up has been un-clearable on a number of occasions - Having to click "read more" to see more than two posts - Having to click a link to a new page to follow a thread more than two / three replies deep (and often finding that it's only a sin…

The old interface actually solves all those issues. I used to be in disbelief how anybody could survive using the new design for more than 15 seconds but then realised that the way people use Reddit is completely different nowadays. It turned into some sort of 9gag/instagram amalgamation where people scroll through an endless feed of images, enabled by the instagram-like format that is the default with the new interf…

Indeed, the new design reflects the new direction the site is moving towards.

Re: Reddit files to go public

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Post by spurtrenolds »

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?

Parent should not be down voted for asking a genuine question.

Seriously, what is wrong with you people down voting like this? You are turning this place into another Reddit.

Re: Reddit files to go public

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Post by BrazzVuvuzela »

chx wrote: post #373
silisili wrote: post #340

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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.

> I would not expect a good analysis on the Palestinian conflict from Linus Tech Tips

No, but such analysis would be informative when you stop to analyze just how persuasive he manages to sound when he's talking about something he obviously knows nothing about. His tone, cadence, body language.. it would reveal to you how good he is at mimicking the superficial characteristics of being an expert. If he's bad at those things when speaking outside his wheelhouse, that's a good thing! But if he's really good at seeming like an expert when you have good reason to think he isn't one, that's a huge warning sign that he might not actually be so proficient in the things you previously believed him to be good at.

Re: Reddit files to go public

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Post by TameAntelope »

ankit219 wrote: post #290
eljimmy wrote: post #160

I can’t help but think this is the end for that site. It started off with a very old school minimalist designed forum vibe and has been devolving into dark patterns and advertisements as of late. I guess good things can’t stay free forever and the bills need to be paid somehow. Wish they went to a donation model like Wikipedia instead.

They have been touting MAUs and DAUs a lot over the last one year. Turns out their numbers are very very public. Whenever a new user creates an account, she automatically gets added to r/announcements. It's not a choice, they dont even show it as an option. The current subs of r/announcements is 127M. It was 124M at the start of this month. Just shows that reddit - with newer design or not - has not found much accept…

Yeah, “Reddit is going down because they only converted three million new users in the last month.” Is probably not the argument that will convince anyone who’s ever built a b2c of your point.
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