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Re: Reddit files to go public

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Post by philipkglass »

systemvoltage wrote: post #44
belval wrote: post #42

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Mandatory guideline quote: > Please don't post comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. It's a semi-noob illusion, as old as the hills. The actual quote has a bunch of links that I worth looking at. People were echo'ing your comment 7 years ago.

I’ve been here for a while. Maybe we can break the rule in a thread about Reddit going for an IPO? :-) Also, I am not saying HN is turning into Reddit. We are just degrading.

I migrated here in 2016 a couple of months before the American presidential election because the comments on Ars Technica kept derailing into American politics or culture war, even when the article was about science or technology. The problem seems to have followed me. I recognize your name as one of the numerous people using HN for discussing American politics and culture war.

Re: Reddit files to go public

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Post by fzzzy »

smolder wrote: post #780
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…

Everything in your second paragraph is right, and the internet is amazing. I also think VR goggles are cool, have a place in providing relatively short term immersive experiences (though not replacing 16 hours of screen time for some people) and am excited to see where the tech goes. The reason I use quotes is because Zuck has stolen a word to represent his vision of a world people are already incrementally building…

There are other words. The Grid or Cyberspace.

Re: Reddit files to go public

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Post by Sohcahtoa82 »

rchaud wrote: post #657
jowsie wrote: post #583

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I'm sure the metaverse will be 90% ERP channels within a month.

ERP as in Enterprise Resource Planning? My bet is that it becomes like what Clubhouse is now: a home for all kinds of whackjobs, hustle culture bros, "become wealthy" gurus and recruitment channels for MLMs and political extremists.

I believe you were being facetious, but just in case...

ERP can also mean Erotic Role Playing.

Re: Reddit files to go public

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Post by rhaksw »

moneywoes wrote: post #613
rhaksw wrote: post #541

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You can search by date with Pushshift, and I built in a UI for that on reveddit [1]. Just visit a subreddit page and select a date under filters. [1] https://www.reveddit.com

Does this mirror remove Reddit?

It is like a removeddit 2.0

Re: Reddit files to go public

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Post by achillesheels »

Mezzie wrote: post #675
wonderwonder wrote: post #608

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Zuckerberg has proven extremely effective at predicting future trends. Look at Instagram and Whatsapp, perfectly timed investments. Zuck has taken long term bets on the metaverse starting with Occulus and now seemingly betting the whole company on it. He could very well be wrong but there are a lot of very smart people at Facebook and on their board I have to think they did some very intensive validation before doing…

I think Zuck has a fantastic understanding of systems and where they're headed...and a negative understanding of human motivation and emotion (outside of their quantified metrics). That's why he's smart enough to understand that FB as a platform has a limited lifespan and to get WA and Insta under his belt when they threatened him, and to know that he needs to come up with something else if he wants to continue to ac…

So Zuckerberg was like playing the ATL Falcons with Michael Vick and their 4-6 formation on Madden online? Cool thought.

Re: Reddit files to go public

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Post by epistasis »

ErikVandeWater wrote: post #656
epistasis wrote: post #628

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A land value tax solves this.

Good point! Someone should invent a more general term though; at first I was wondering what taxing Facebook's land would do. Perhaps "self-appraisal tax"?

One general term, though it's kind of unsatisfying, is "economic land," and it can refer to things like electromagnetic spectrum too. Any finite resource that that is a factor of production and can not be expanded.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_(economics)

For namespaces, there is extra value for particular names that come not from any work the owner of the name performed, but rather that comes from the productive activity of others. If I squat "olives.com" in 1994 and wait for the web to get big, and then sell the domain in 2000 to a hottest new direct to consumer olive startup, then any profit from that should really be taxed away. All that "value" came from the work of others that made the web into a valuable place to own some "land."

Re: Reddit files to go public

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Post by pyuser583 »

McWobbleston wrote: post #652
BbzzbB wrote: post #374

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I don't know about r/philosophy, but if it's grown too large to be usable, as many do, look for subsets of philosophy (by genre, philosopher, etc). I'm sure there are more niche subs with decent communities.

Sadly the niche subs end up following the same path, and as someone who has done that Reddit is starting to feel like it's lost its charm. I think it boils down to upvote/downvote system steering discussions to a particular kind of consumer that doesn't align with what I'm there for and it gets worse over time. It's so rare for me to find insightful comments there anymore, it's really turned into intellectual junk fo…

I’m pretty sure /r/philosophy was a default sub back then.

Re: Reddit files to go public

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Post by makeitdouble »

nebula8804 wrote: post #651
shawabawa3 wrote: post #429

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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)

It would be hilarious if this became the next "dropbox" comment. I'm placing my stake here just in case! :)

Interestingly we don't yet have a player coming it with a "we made it cheap and simple" solution.

Even Meta's Quest hardware is still not at that point, and the ecosystem is pretty small. I feel like we're not even at the "No wireless. Less space than a Nomad." stage yet.

Re: Reddit files to go public

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Post by Semaphor »

nunez wrote: post #763
Semaphor wrote: post #336

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The fabricated issues with old are starting to appear, though. Slow reddit now supports markdown code blocks with 3 `’s instead of 4 spaces, which gets rendered as normal inline-text on old. Using the editor to insert links with _ in them on slow, will escape the underscores (…/this_is/ => …/this\_is/), breaking the links for users of the fast version. The worst part (for me) is, that I actually like the new reddit.…

tons of scrolling gifs blow through that performance high-watermark, especially on mobile (even on the M1 iPad)

I don’t care much about mobile, and even if I didn’t have a gif-animation-blocker extension installed, it wouldn’t be that much of an issue as they barely get used in the subreddits I read in ;)

Re: Reddit files to go public

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Post by brokenmachine »

3maj wrote: post #615
2OEH8eoCRo0 wrote: post #598

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Nobody uses them because they are clunky and unnatural. The leap of faith is that soon the technology will make these things seamless and natural. Only then will virtual spaces take off in a meaningful way.

Here's a wild idea, meet in person.

Email is fine, thanks.
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