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Re: Did Reddit just destroy mobile browser access?

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Post by zuppy »

spit2wind wrote: post #251
MattGaiser wrote: post #94

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I get buying it for that purpose, but why then kill it? Especially when it is a personal video platform, when Reddit is mostly an anonymous text platform?

Robert Reich explains it well using Hacksaw Bob. There are facets he doesn't touch on in that example which he addresses in the full series. Very excellent presentation. Hacksaw Bob: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kZtN3XTk5w0 Whole series: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOLArO56vjuqhmPDfbLGa...

i think you wanted to post this for "hacksaw bob": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGhJyAYZj9o instead of the BMW review :)

Re: Did Reddit just destroy mobile browser access?

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Post by cykros »

chaostheory wrote: post #138
donny2018 wrote: post #76

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This is Silicon Valley (the show) level comical.

They ended that way too early. There is so much good content to write about now. I know it’s hard to transition, but do you really need (near) the full cast still?

Indeed. They could go with an anthology of seasons style show, however, if Mike Judge is up for it. New start ups with new seasons, with the occasional throwbacks perhaps.

Re: Did Reddit just destroy mobile browser access?

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Post by seydor »

kozikow wrote: post #306

I deleted reddit account week ago. It's just time sink without any value: - It's true that some hobby specific subreddits have wealth of information. But it's just occasional view of such subreddit and "sort by top". New posts are 99% attention seeking posts without value, even on good subreddits - Besides the above, 99% of reddit is political virtue signalling, memes, karma farming

HN is like a subreddit anyway. There are subreddits that good enough and worth it , but many of the mainstream ones are destroyed by politics. The remaining ones are still one of the best places on the net though

Re: Did Reddit just destroy mobile browser access?

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Post by piva00 »

deafpolygon wrote: post #124
klardotsh wrote: post #97

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There's so many places you could take your community that aren't another VC-backed SV startup well on its way to trying to be the next TikTok or whatever (see the Discord username change fiasco). Try Discourse, or Zulip (disclaimer: I used to work there), or Mastodon, or spin up your own forum using any number of self-hostable solutions. Try anything but Discord. Future you will thank you when Discord is the one in t…

I dislike how sync Discord is, too. I mean, I don't have time to sit here and chat with people for hours. That is why I'm on HN and Reddit. I read, give it a thought, post some good comments (plus a couple of shitposts) and then I get off my computer. I come back later to check on my responses. Discord just doesn't work for me. I'm not going to scroll through hours of chat, and I'm not going to sit there and watch th…

If Discord tacks on a layer of forum-like discussions besides the chat... It might take over a chunk of current reddit-focused communities.

At least for me, personally, that would supply the only thing I still use Reddit for, some of my hobbies have communities on Reddit + Discord and I participate in both, if Discord provided a discussion board to allow a more asynchronous communication I would ditch Reddit completely.

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Post by motoxpro »

jojobas wrote: post #213
motoxpro wrote: post #155

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Yeah, GP, this is not so much race thing as it is a cultural "where the cool kids are" thing.

Is that as cool for investors? I would imagine, for better or worse, being black correlated with being poor, and therefore black userbase is less valuable then white for ad serving purposes.

You're missing why this would be important. It's cool for investors because the black user base draws in a bunch of other people along with them. It's also not about people saying "omg black people, I must be there!" Culturally, historically, in the USA, black culture has set a bunch of trends. See NBA, NFL, hip-hop/music, comedians, dance, etc.

Same as when a "cool" person goes anywhere, you don't monetize them, you monetize all the people they bring into the club, bar, theater, etc.

An example. https://www.npr.org/2021/07/01/1011899328/black-tiktok-creat...

Please don't focus on whether on not they should or should get credit or any political statements, focus on the fact that they are the ones that made the "cool" dances that the most followed two girls on TikTok used, which then went viral, which in turn made TikTok a bunch of money because those millions of views had ads played against them.

Re: Did Reddit just destroy mobile browser access?

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Post by fifnir »

kozikow wrote: post #306

I deleted reddit account week ago. It's just time sink without any value: - It's true that some hobby specific subreddits have wealth of information. But it's just occasional view of such subreddit and "sort by top". New posts are 99% attention seeking posts without value, even on good subreddits - Besides the above, 99% of reddit is political virtue signalling, memes, karma farming

> time sink without any value

Indeed, time is little and precious and should be spent wisely. Very virtuous of you.

> hobby specific subreddits have wealth of information

Ah the virtue of doing hobbies

> New posts are 99% attention seeking posts without value

Only the most virtuous of us completely avoid the trap of attention seeking, well done.

> political virtue signalling

Ah the biggest virtue of all, avoiding virtue-signalling. You've really tapped into the big one here, well done and thank you for letting us know that you're not some filthy virtue-signaller.

Re: Did Reddit just destroy mobile browser access?

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Post by Gasp0de »

killerstorm wrote: post #261
FormerBandmate wrote: post #36

They are desperately trying to be TikTok. It will not work and has no chance of working. Look at their hilariously terrible acquisition of Dubsmash for $50 million (they converted it to a subreddit with 1.5k subscribers when they had 200 million users at their peak and touted having 25% of black teens in their acquisition press release. Every post is people saying the Reddit app sucks and asking where Dubsmash went)

I don't understand... Why does it have to be one app? Can't they make a TikTok-like app with a subreddit as a backend? So ppl get same content but with a different front-end?

Because they want to force the content on you. It's not the goal that you can choose to enjoy TikTok-like short videos. You can already do that. They want to mix the videos into your feed so that you get caught in the net, like they already do on their app.
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