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Re: Reddit files to go public

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Post by heavenlyblue »

Hippocrates wrote: post #703
smolder wrote: post #489

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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 pretty sure you're wildly wrong about this. Comparing metaverse to virtualboy is a big mistake. Metaverse is not vision over substance. Substance is already there and driving technology to a more refined vision. We’re already spending significant parts of our days working, playing, exploring and communicating digitally. Dating is online. Commerce has moved online. Art and creators are online. Entertainment is onl…

We already have a metaverse: it's called "reading books".

Re: Reddit files to go public

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Post by wayoutthere »

jcpham2 wrote: post #672
wayoutthere wrote: post #607

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I have a project currently deploying a bunch Microsoft Teams Rooms at a client. It tries to create a similar experience in a physical space. People are confused as hell by it — it doesn’t work the way they’re used to / expecting, so they give up within a few minutes and just connect an HDMI cable to the main screen. We weren’t even going to have HDMI as a fallback, but the executives demanded it because they weren't…

This sounds like my world and yes Execs can't seem to reconcile that their personal laptop cannot control a camera linked to an android app on the other side of the room. That's not what they asked for initially, they asked for the one-touch join the meeting crap that the salesman sold them on. Come hell or high water though once they get in the room they want their personal laptop to drive the meeting. It is infuria…

Yeah the tech is wonderful when there’s a good facilitator who knows how to use it effectively, but the problem is most meeting facilitators are not very good and have their own personal style that might not match up with any given product. Getting to the outcome of the meeting is far more important than using some fancy software, and for 90% of meetings you can get there with Zoom or Teams on a laptop.

Re: Reddit files to go public

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Post by ChrisArchitect »

Reddit has come some ways as far as mainstream acceptance etc but man if I will die on the hill that it only survived/became "successful" because of the legendary Digg slip up and exodus. It was on its deathbed before that happened. I know there are enough of us out there that remember this and tire of the having to remind of the history.

And it's nothing more than a large collection of forums basically. With all the mod challenges, UI/UX hurdles etc that come with that. Happy for it to exist/find it useful for niche communities etc but with freaking Alexis Ohanian would stop waltzing around like he had any genius foresight or any insight into anything social/web.

Re: Reddit files to go public

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Post by Hippocrates »

heavenlyblue wrote: post #721
Hippocrates wrote: post #703

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I'm pretty sure you're wildly wrong about this. Comparing metaverse to virtualboy is a big mistake. Metaverse is not vision over substance. Substance is already there and driving technology to a more refined vision. We’re already spending significant parts of our days working, playing, exploring and communicating digitally. Dating is online. Commerce has moved online. Art and creators are online. Entertainment is onl…

We already have a metaverse: it's called "reading books".

That's a wholesome idea and nothing more.

Re: Reddit files to go public

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Post by rhines »

majani wrote: post #527
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.

old.reddit is destined to be nuked after the company goes public.

I honestly don't know how people use new Reddit. On my 2017 laptop with a quadcore i7, SSD, and 16GB RAM, using Ubuntu 16.04 and either Chrome or Firefox, and with a 100Mb/s fiber connection, it just loads glacially slow and causes my fans to come on at full speed. And that's just with a single tab - with Reddit I usually end up scrolling through and opening quite a few tabs.

If they kill off old Reddit, there's no way I'll be able to tolerate using the site. Surely I'm not alone in this, or perhaps 99% of the traffic is mobile users on recent phones?

Re: Reddit files to go public

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Post by skinnymuch »

forix wrote: post #706
skinnymuch wrote: post #461

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I’ve done posts before. As have others. The scope, popularity, and longevity of the fallen past top sites like Friendster, MySpace, Digg, Slashdot, Altavista, Excite. Or web builders like Geocities, Angelfire. Other social networks like Bebo, Hi5. Other messaging apps like Viber. Or older ones like AIM, MSN, Yahoo, ICQ. Finally people stopped bringing up the old messengers. They had such tiny userbases. The compariso…

Not sure why Viber is on your list of fallen messaging apps. In the past few years I've seen more and more "X has joined Viber. Say hi!" notifications about my contacts (based in the US, which if anything makes me think it's growing).

My bad!

Re: Reddit files to go public

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Post by ChrisArchitect »

Also for any of you non-lame-lurkers out there that never log in and insist on using old.reddit instead of setting prefs to use the old look, all the crap that is the default on the homepage of reddit, /r/popular etc whatever, you never have to see at all and can enjoy your niche subreddits without any exposure. I haven't looked at any of the main top level reddits/memes/incels/funny/pics in like 5 years

Re: Reddit files to go public

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Post by BitwiseFool »

quitit wrote: post #660
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.

Are you sure you don't want to veer into /r/popular. /r/Askwomen: What are 100% effective ways at turning you on? /r/Teenagers: Every1 who wears their PJs to bed, I'll tell you your favourite band. /r/ >: I HAVE A CAT, NAME IT FOR ME. /r/NoStupidQuestions: If a woman shakes my hand is that code for sex? /r/Askmen: What's your one perfect way to get a girlfriend? /r/Pics: Here's 10,000 photos of people being gross on…

/r/pics: Blatant political grandstanding mixed in with images meant to be evocative and establish mental association. Here's a smiling photo of Obama. Remember Obama? Picture of rednecks in pickup trucks with Trump flags, next to a photo of Taliban in trucks with flags.

/r/politics: wanton hyperbole, plain and simple.

"Screenshots of Tweets" Subreddits

/r/Antiwork: Literally every problem, shortcoming, or thing you don't like is ultimately because of capitalism.

/r/LateStageCapitalism: Same as above, but we need at least two subreddits about this to really hammer the point home.

/r/WhitePeopleTwitter: Leftist hot-takes du jour, as well as well-trodden reposts.

/r/BlackPeopleTwitter: Leftist hot-takes but posted by 'verified' reddit users.

/r/MurderedByWords: Tomi Lahren and Strawmen being mocked via tweet

/r/MurderedByAOC: Pretty much any AOC tweet posted by u/IrlOurPresident

/r/AOC: Just in case you haven't seen u/IrlOurPresident's post on the front page yet.

Re: Reddit files to go public

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Post by hbn »

wonderwonder wrote: post #629
hbn wrote: post #627

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> Look at Instagram and Whatsapp, perfectly timed investments. What do you mean perfectly timed? If you mean that those platforms shot up in usage/revenue/whatever-metric after their purchase, couldn't that be heavily influenced by the purchase? Neither of those were some small little platform with a groundbreaking new feature before that. Everyone I knew (in highschool at the time) had gotten sick of their parents a…

"All that Zuck did was notice the platform all the kids are migrating to and bought it to keep those users. It isn't exactly "predicting future trends." They tried to do it again when everyone's parents joined Instagram so the kids moved to Snapchat, but thankfully that deal didn't go through" I would argue this is exactly what predicting future trends is. See which way the tide is going and make the necessary invest…

I think there's a pretty big difference between buying a rapidly-growing platform and... whatever the hell was shown off in that vaporware announcement video

Re: Reddit files to go public

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Post by pjc50 »

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 would certainly bet on them going up in the short term. However, going public carries more scrutiny, and that means their two existing problems will be catapulted into the public eye at some point, just as they have been for Facebook:

- political extremism

- very flimsy segregation of NSFW material (and usernames are basically not censored)

I doubt they would be dumb enough to do a Tumblr, but it can't be ruled out entirely.

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