Reddit and Twitter should merge or one acquire the other. Both kind of the same web property, with the same problems and same audience.
I'm completely baffled by this. What?
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#12Reddit and Twitter should merge or one acquire the other. Both kind of the same web property, with the same problems and same audience.
I'm completely baffled by this. What?
I'm guessing that ProAm is thinking about how posts under both twitter and reddit are (for the most part) public by default.
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#13Reddit and Twitter should merge or one acquire the other. Both kind of the same web property, with the same problems and same audience.
Uhh, what? Reddit and Twitter have completely different models. Twitter is very person-oriented ("what is this person saying") while Reddit is very topic-oriented ("what are people saying about this topic"). They have completely different use cases.
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#14Interesting third argument. Based on work by google and published papers, monorepos have some advantages. Of course not always and not everywhere. But here, reddit connects it with service oriented architecture. Somehow i dont get it.
Personally, I buy into the 1 service, 1 repo argument. The fewer interferences between services the better.
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#15For many of my apps, the main reason the core isn't open source is simply because there is too much stuff specific to how we deploy, our deploy target, and specific workflows in the app to be generally useful.
It's pretty understandable that reddit as it scales would have to start making choices between making reddit the site better and making reddit the app usable.
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#16Interesting third argument. Based on work by google and published papers, monorepos have some advantages. Of course not always and not everywhere. But here, reddit connects it with service oriented architecture. Somehow i dont get it.
I think google might be the only people to do monorepo (and even they don't - for example, Android and Chrome are different repos), but they have built massive internal tooling to support this. For everyone else, once you get past a certain size, it's much much easier to do multi-repo than monorepo.
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#17Reddit and Twitter should merge or one acquire the other. Both kind of the same web property, with the same problems and same audience.
I'm surprised at the downvotes. Comments seem focused on the differences between the two and not the similarities. If they were exactly the same, there'd be no reason to combine them.
It's a crazy idea. I don't know if it's crazy good or crazy silly. But I think it merits some consideration.
Personally, I use twitter to keep up with very narrow niche news (like subfields within AI or the private space industry), and guess what, I use Reddit to keep up with targeted interests. That both are public by default is fascinating. For one thing, Reddit integration might make it easier to find people to follow.
Or maybe it's a bad idea, I don't know, but it seems original and worth considering, and might lead to interesting improvements for either system.
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#18>Open-source makes it hard for us to develop some features "in the clear" (like our recent video launch) without leaking our plans too far in advance. As Reddit is now a larger player on the web, it is hard for us to be strategic in our planning when everyone can see what code we are committing. I'm curious what harm they are afraid of? Like, what happens if outsiders know what reddit is working on next?
They are afraid of not living up to a 9 digit valuation and being able to make VCs money, so they are scrambling for any edge they think they have.
Its the same kind of move that was behind twitter killing off their API.
Calling this "a commitment to do open source right" is insulting to their user's intelligence.
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#19Reddit and Twitter should merge or one acquire the other. Both kind of the same web property, with the same problems and same audience.
Uhh, what? Reddit and Twitter have completely different models. Twitter is very person-oriented ("what is this person saying") while Reddit is very topic-oriented ("what are people saying about this topic"). They have completely different use cases.
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#20Reddit and Twitter should merge or one acquire the other. Both kind of the same web property, with the same problems and same audience.
I'm surprised at the downvotes. Comments seem focused on the differences between the two and not the similarities. If they were exactly the same, there'd be no reason to combine them. It's a crazy idea. I don't know if it's crazy good or crazy silly. But I think it merits some consideration. Personally, I use twitter to keep up with very narrow niche news (like subfields within AI or the private space industry), and…
Combine both so they can lose money at twice the rate?