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Re: Reddit files to go public

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Post by kzrdude »

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

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

i.reddit.com works pretty well for phone browsers, quite minimalist and mostly not broken.

Re: Reddit files to go public

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Post by guareber »

silisili wrote: post #402
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…

Genuinely curious...are you old enough to remember Digg and what happened to it? I don't mean that to be patronizing...but I remember being on Digg and Reddit being a weird alternative. And after a series of huge mistakes, almost overnight Reddit was flooded with users and Digg relegated to nothing. It really opened my eyes to how quickly an empire built only on its users can disappear.

I'll give one counterpoint:

When did you see anyone on TV mention Digg?

Reddit's become mainstream, it's quoted by serious news outlets, joked around on Last Week Tonight (and other politic joke shows), and I'd say it's as likely to disappear as Facebook. Which is to say, surely but very slowly.

Re: Reddit files to go public

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Post by cblconfederate »

throw_m239339 wrote: post #506
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.

Plenty of hardcore pornography on Twitter, and not just legal one, which got me wondering why their app is getting a pass on IOS when Tumbler didn't. At least Facebook does not permit any form of pornography.

And mastercard doesn't require them to get a photo id of their users.

Re: Reddit files to go public

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Post by rhaksw »

shitlord wrote: post #94
xtracto wrote: post #70

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Ceddit was really good for r/askhistorians threads. You could read interesting takes on the questions that did not pass the mods snob filter. It hasn't worked for some time.

There are alternatives, like reveddit. I think they all use the Pushshift API behinds the scenes.

That's correct. I'm the author of Reveddit. A few things like user pages and the desktop extension work entirely without Pushshift. Threads can function somewhat without it. I maintain a FAQ with details of how it works in case anyone's interested,

https://www.reveddit.com/about/faq/

Re: Reddit files to go public

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Post by [deleted] »

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?

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Re: Reddit files to go public

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Post by kypro »

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'm so split on Reddit. While I agree with most of what you said the decline in quality of both content and comments, and the extreme moderation which has occurred over the last 4-5 years would really worry me if I was an investor. Presumably as a public company they would come under even more scrutiny for edgy content and feel the need to moderate content even more. And in general as the size of a social site's user base increases, the quality of the content drops as content starts to reflect the common denominator of its users.

I also feel like all social media the there are very toxic aspects to Reddit. I used to be very active on there, but after receiving constant abuse and very few constructive replies I now rarely participate in discussions there. Again with the company going public like Facebook and Twitter, Reddit could come under more scrutiny for this.

Assuming you buy for a fair valuation I don't think it's a bad investment per say, but I think there are a lot of risks there. I find myself wishing for an alternative to Reddit a lot these days because I really miss the high quality discussions I used to have there 10 or so years ago.

Re: Reddit files to go public

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Post by ant6n »

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.

Mussolini got the trains running on thyme.

Re: Reddit files to go public

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Post by jl6 »

unionpivo wrote: post #525
Gareth321 wrote: post #457

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This concept is not long for this world. I've been a daily user for for than a decade. * [Your default sort and filter list no longer only contains content you are subscribed to.]( https://www.reddit.com/r/help/comments/m1pb9u/comment/gqgh82... ) * They continually "improve" the default (and Hot, New, Top, and Rising) sort and filter algorithm(s). Every day it contains less relevant content for you, and more content…

Just disable all the subreddits but the few that you follow. And also disable the trending option in your preferences Its the (show trending subreddits on the home feed (a list of popular and notable subreddits to check out)) in your preferences. And then your home page is normal, sure that should be the default, but it's not hard to do

You can’t disable the banning of a community.

Re: Reddit files to go public

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Post by ant6n »

tornato7 wrote: post #476
petepete wrote: post #442

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I've been saying this for years. Reddit's official app is very poor and they've broken the mobile web experience by choice. The day Sync stops working will be my final day on the platform.

Reddit Sync is amazing and so is Apollo. The official app feels too much like tiktok. But Reddit doesn't get any ad revenue from the third party apps, so I wonder if they're really going to last that long.

They get value from the users.
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