At least on Reddit, for now, you can sort by New and your setting sticks.
Reddit files to go public
731–740 of 834 posts
Re: Reddit files to go public
#732Also 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
I'd use preferences if my accounts didn't keep getting banned from the ever-increasing censorship.
Re: Reddit files to go public
#733Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
But should those numbers be normalized for total numbers of internet users? I'm honestly not sure but I think there's an argument for it. The internet was a smaller place as a whole before Digg's collapse. They can't have had users that didn't exist. On the other hand, maybe turnover can be more rapid when a domain such as the internet itself is rapidly developing. Just seems to me there's broader factors to consider…
My best argument to this that I would gladly be proven wrong so I don’t look silly being wrong. Is there any example in the past ~7 years of any major cultural use content sites that had precedence like Digg losing influence the way Digg and others did?
The only examples that I can think of are things like Yahoo Answers, Quora, Tumblr. Leaving Tumblr aside just to see if there’s any other examples, are there? We could expand it to 10 years possibly? I want to stick to the modern smartphone era.
I list many sites that rose and fell as well as apps like IM apps. How many of them had peaks or consistent growth for 10 years?
My thesis is to not look for people’s opinion on changes. Look at the actual numbers. Web giants once they get established in this modern era. Rarely get displaced like Digg did.
> On the other hand, maybe turnover can be more rapid when a domain such as the internet itself is rapidly developing.
Yes whether this is it or not as the reason is what I am saying based on what is happening
> Just seems to me there's broader factors to consider than Digg per se or reddit per se.
Yeah I didn’t intend to say I knew all the reasons why. Just that modern web giants can’t be compared to the web giants of the earlier web.
Re: Reddit files to go public
#734Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
>"squatting names that are basically common nouns"
I feel like we should be using the term "scalping" instead. It is much more accurate.
Re: Reddit files to go public
#735Good! 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…
Hot take but I think you are incredibly wrong. Remember that Today show clip from the 90's where they laugh off this new Internet thing? That's you. Ignorance.
Re: Reddit files to go public
#736Earlier quoted context omitted.
Similar to my response to the OP, the comparisons don’t work because IRC as a whole, no less one network, are not empires. Reddit did a god awful redesign. Then piled on forcing their official mobile app usage by limiting the site more and more. Unlike the small geeky IRC world, none of this did anything to curb Reddit popularity. While it’s entirely possibly an equivalent move in IRC or some other niche geeky place…
It's the early adopters that move, not the masses that eventually follow a few years later. It's a small community that shapes crowds.
My best argument to this that I would gladly be proven wrong so I don’t look silly being wrong. Is there any example in the past ~7 years, even ~10 years of any major cultural user content sites that had precedence like Digg, losing influence the way Digg and other contemporaries did?
The only examples that I can think of is Tumblr.
If there’s so many examples before 10 years ago. And maybe 1 example in recent times. Your point can still stand. However it also doesn’t mean much when the resilience of web giants are totally different between the Digg Web time and after that
Re: Reddit files to go public
#737Earlier quoted context omitted.
I used to think this but Ben Thompson changed my mind. This meta verse thing really could be the way we work remotely soon. It works as a working space. It works for companies, it could create good work environments, and companies can afford expensive hardware to get people to work more effecively. Think of the metaverse as a more advanced slack+zoom, not as a Minecraft/Roblox alternative.
>This meta verse thing really could be the way we work remotely soon. Oh please god kill me now.
For real. The last thing I want is to get disciplined or fired because the eye scanners in my work helmet told my boss that I looked at non-work related items for 3.7% of my work day and they only allow for 2.9% of the work day not visually engaged with my screen.
Re: Reddit files to go public
#738Earlier quoted context omitted.
Which raises the question. Where will people head from the reddit exodus?
There are lots of interesting potential new homes popping up, including SaidIt.net, Tildes.net, Gab.com, even Parler.com and/or whatever Donal Trump has announced. Problem for all of them is their lack of critical mass. Reddit is slowly squeezing users and communities out to appeal to advertisers, but they haven't had their Digg moment yet. That would be something like killing old.reddit.com. Such a catalyst would ca…
The problem with the sites you've listed isn't "lack of critical mass" it's that they're infested with neo-nazis.
Big yikes from me, dawg.
Re: Reddit files to go public
#739There's maybe one positive comment thread in here and all the rest are thoughtfully negative to borderline "hater", wishing for Reddits demise for some obscure reason. I think we've seen this pattern play out. The HN crowd is really not the right crowd to source opinions when it comes to business matters. And you can see it in the comments, it's mostly about how the UI sucks, the app is slow, the dark patterns, etc..…
You are spot-on about the HackerNews tech criticisms being irrelevant. But I think the points about Reddit being toxic to advertisers because of the hate/porn/gore/mysogny are correct. It just takes one bad story and advertisers will flee the platform. There has been no mainstream examinination and investigation of what Reddit is. Once it starts, it's all over.
Have you been on Reddit lately? They purged all that crap and aggressively censor the entire platform now. The censorship has increased tenfold in the last couple of years.
Re: Reddit files to go public
#740Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 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 would argue this is exactly what predicting future trends is.
It's recognizing current and predicting extremely short-term future trends that lots of other people recognized but didn't have the funds to do exploit in the same way.
Metaverse would be something very different.