Reddit ceo doing an AMA soon…wonder how rattled Reddit they are about all this.
The CEO has already resorted to libelling the Apollo app's developer, so... they must be fairly rattled.
Reddark: Website to watch subreddits going dark
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#162Earlier quoted context omitted.
It’s incredibly frustrating when you take the time to write something out- something that benefits others and does nothing for you, like sharing your experience or knowledge- only to have the comment removed for one bullshit reason or another. I have never written hate speech or anything racist or in that vein on Reddit, yet I’ve been censored and banned so many times by what I can only assume are children (or childr…
> when you take the time to write something out - something that benefits others and does nothing for you, like sharing your experience or knowledge Sharing your experience or knowledge is not a completely selfless act. Some enjoy the feeling of being an expert, others use this as an opportunity to push their point of view, some just like to help but even that is a benefit for them. https://xkcd.com/386/
Feeling good when you do good things is, in the main, what makes you a good person. I'm not sure it's sensible to describe such people as essentially selfish.
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#163Earlier quoted context omitted.
Depending on the outcome of the AMA with spez tomorrow [1], and how much it ends up inflaming the situation, that may well happen. [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/144ho2x/join_our_ce...
Oh wow, I didn't know about an AMA. I need to get some popcorn.
I saw rumblings about the AMA maybe beating the most downvoted "Pride and accomplishment" comment. Thinking of that I just yesterday got Diablo 4 and realized just how normalized always online, microtransactiony BS has become. Maybe Reddit too will not so slowly boil the frog.
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#164Earlier quoted context omitted.
Reddit isn’t profitable therefore technically it doesn’t profit from anything.
Do you reckon their C-suite are not waged? (What revenue are they working with?) This is a common issue with discussion of companies, people say "look they're not making any money" just because the company accounts are not recording profits. But if you pay out all your money as C-suite wages (for example) then you have "no profits" as a company but people are certainly profiting. Another angle is political steer; you…
So you're saying the C-suite aren't profiting from their work? They do no work?
C-suite and other employees profit from selling their time to to Reddit. It's kinda weird to start acting like that isn't how employment works.
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#16548 hours will not even ding reddit. Do it for a month and it will count, assuming reddit doesn't simply re-enable the subreddits. But obviously the mods here are walking a fine line between pissing off their users and getting reddit to bend over. With camarades.com we had a week long outage because of a fire in EV1's DC which then caused the fire marshal to shut everything down for a week (I don't blame them, but tha…
> 48 hours will not even ding reddit. I don't think the direct losses of the 48 outage will be what matters here. Rumors are that Reddit wants to IPO later this year. This blackout will put the spotlight on two issues: - Reddit is extremely dependent on the goodwill of the community, especially the moderators who provide an essential service for free. - Reddit is out of touch with its own community, and keeps pissing…
Reddit has some pretty powerful tools at its disposal to re-enable those subreddits and then they can ask who wants to moderate them instead, I think there will be plenty of takers, if the community is in sync with the mods then the mods' play will succeed otherwise the mods are just putting themselves out of business.
This whole thing is a nice illustration how when you use someone else's website for your community you don't actually own the community.
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#166Earlier quoted context omitted.
The pre-IPO process often involves all kinds of fun short-term profit maximizing activities.
Is it securities fraud if your pre-ipo profit maximization moves cause your user base to relocate, and you didn't disclose that your filings?
Yes, they will need to be completely transparent about their outlook at the time of the IPO, and disclosing the current and historical active user counts is a pivotal figure in that data.
I wouldn't be surprised if this move actually damages Reddit enough that they can't IPO because the user engagement numbers will take such a sharp negative turn.
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#167Time to shreddit I guess. (https://github.com/x89/shreddit)
Re: Reddark: Website to watch subreddits going dark
#16848 hours will not even ding reddit. Do it for a month and it will count, assuming reddit doesn't simply re-enable the subreddits. But obviously the mods here are walking a fine line between pissing off their users and getting reddit to bend over. With camarades.com we had a week long outage because of a fire in EV1's DC which then caused the fire marshal to shut everything down for a week (I don't blame them, but tha…
> 48 hours will not even ding reddit. I don't think the direct losses of the 48 outage will be what matters here. Rumors are that Reddit wants to IPO later this year. This blackout will put the spotlight on two issues: - Reddit is extremely dependent on the goodwill of the community, especially the moderators who provide an essential service for free. - Reddit is out of touch with its own community, and keeps pissing…
And the loyalty to the platform itself low. There are other ones, and Reddit should remember the great Digg Exodus.
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#169Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 48 hours will not even ding reddit. I don't think the direct losses of the 48 outage will be what matters here. Rumors are that Reddit wants to IPO later this year. This blackout will put the spotlight on two issues: - Reddit is extremely dependent on the goodwill of the community, especially the moderators who provide an essential service for free. - Reddit is out of touch with its own community, and keeps pissing…
And the loyalty to the platform itself low. There are other ones, and Reddit should remember the great Digg Exodus.
That's very true, but digg never had the kind of stickyness that reddit had from early on. I think reddit has a stronger sense of community and I think that users may well be more attached to their communities than they are to their mods.
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#170Too bad we don't have a viable replacement for reddit atm or this would have been end of Reddit
But should we have a replacement for reddit..? I think we had the model right before the concept of social media came along, which is many small independent communities.
Reddit is many small communities, but all in one convenient place.