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Re: Apollo founder debunks Reddit's claims

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Post by Engineering-MD »

It would be such vengeful bliss if Apollo were to help start an alternative to Reddit by changing over to another service/creative another service. Yes I know, the back end is difficult, but Apollo currently has a huge reach and moral advantage it feels too good an opportunity to squander.

Re: Apollo founder debunks Reddit's claims

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Post by nojito »

Engineering-MD wrote: post #2

It would be such vengeful bliss if Apollo were to help start an alternative to Reddit by changing over to another service/creative another service. Yes I know, the back end is difficult, but Apollo currently has a huge reach and moral advantage it feels too good an opportunity to squander.

Apollo’s reach is minuscule compared to Reddit as a whole.

Plus their popularity is intrinsically tied to Reddit as a whole. They will have zero ability to peal users away.

Re: Apollo founder debunks Reddit's claims

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Post by hendersoon »

nojito wrote: post #4
Engineering-MD wrote: post #2

It would be such vengeful bliss if Apollo were to help start an alternative to Reddit by changing over to another service/creative another service. Yes I know, the back end is difficult, but Apollo currently has a huge reach and moral advantage it feels too good an opportunity to squander.

Apollo’s reach is minuscule compared to Reddit as a whole. Plus their popularity is intrinsically tied to Reddit as a whole. They will have zero ability to peal users away.

Not zero, his current userbase would probably be amenable, but you're correct in that's a very small proportion of Reddit's total users.

I don't see federated alternatives taking off after Mastodon/Twitter. Most people I followed on Twitter didn't move to Mastodon, they simply stopped posting anywhere.

My feeling is these platforms will slowly die, but that'll take a very long time to come to fruition, same as digg and myspace.

Re: Apollo founder debunks Reddit's claims

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Post by EA-3167 »

nojito wrote: post #4
Engineering-MD wrote: post #2

It would be such vengeful bliss if Apollo were to help start an alternative to Reddit by changing over to another service/creative another service. Yes I know, the back end is difficult, but Apollo currently has a huge reach and moral advantage it feels too good an opportunity to squander.

Apollo’s reach is minuscule compared to Reddit as a whole. Plus their popularity is intrinsically tied to Reddit as a whole. They will have zero ability to peal users away.

So much of Reddit's reach is grasping at crap though, the idea that to compete with Reddit you need hundreds of millions of active users out of the gate isn't useful either.

A "Reddit" with hundreds of thousands of active users, perhaps growing to an HN size community over years, is far more appealing to me at least than a giant that comes out of the gate baying for VC money and blood.

Re: Apollo founder debunks Reddit's claims

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Post by rnjesus »

xqcgrek2 wrote: post #3

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i get a “sour grapes” feeling from this too. funnily enough, when i started reading this i thought to myself, “i bet there is going to be some kind of self-promotion or link to give donations,” and sure enough, there were both those things at the end.

to your second point, reddit tolerates these kind of rants/events because drama creates traffic, and, amusingly, people are giving that post awards.. which is money straight into reddit’s pocket.

Re: Apollo founder debunks Reddit's claims

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Post by celsoazevedo »

xqcgrek2 wrote: post #3

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> It's already likely necessary Reddit's leadership needs extra personal security because of this drama.

A drama created by Reddit's leadership and made worse by their lies (something dumb to do when recordings or emails can be made public).

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