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Reddit confirms $300M Series D led by China’s Tencent at $3B value

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Re: Reddit confirms $300M Series D led by China’s Tencent at $3B value

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post #24

Waiting for the API to be turned off to force use of the official app. I am subscribed to lots of niche subreddits and love browsing reddit from my app of choice, but when the day comes that they force me to use the reddit app, I will abandon ship. They won't care, because they probably make no money off of me.

They have almost made their mobile website un-usable. You have to click 3-4 buttons just to close out all of the popups. If you browse in Incognito mode, you have to close everything every time.

Re: Reddit confirms $300M Series D led by China’s Tencent at $3B value

#132
post #42
post #26

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Ugh this is so true about Twitter. It really does seem like the feed is filled with political retweets. Good idea about turning them off.

Does anyone know if such functionality exists to disable seeing likes? I've turned off all retweets for exactly the reasons discussed but twitter still shows me that so and so liked some snarky thing so and si said about So and Se, Candidate from State about current affair. If I can prune that last bit, my twitter feed just might be saved.

Yes: create a "list" on Twitter, add the people you want to that list, and visit just that list (not the main Twitter stream/feed/timeline/whatever). The list does not show likes. (But I haven't tried combining it with disabling retweets...)

Re: Reddit confirms $300M Series D led by China’s Tencent at $3B value

#134

I've seen Reddit degrade painfully over last 8-10 years. It was full of intelligent comments, insight and unique perspective from people all over the world. Browsing the front page and reading the comments makes me sad that instead of intellectual discourse, we have a 3 billion dollar meme making machine. I wish to keep HN away from the masses as much as I'd like a broader perspective in the light of how things go wi…

> I wish to keep HN away from the masses as much as I'd like a broader perspective in the light of how things go with typical social networks

Agreed. I downvote ferociously on HN when I see people attempt to be funny or meme on hacker news. It'll be a sad day once people try to use HN as some sort of hacker joke thread.

Re: Reddit confirms $300M Series D led by China’s Tencent at $3B value

#135

I've seen Reddit degrade painfully over last 8-10 years. It was full of intelligent comments, insight and unique perspective from people all over the world. Browsing the front page and reading the comments makes me sad that instead of intellectual discourse, we have a 3 billion dollar meme making machine. I wish to keep HN away from the masses as much as I'd like a broader perspective in the light of how things go wi…

I feel this way about the internet as a whole. Just a complete obliteration of the culture.

The things that I hate the most are screenshots of other people's tweets (who cares) and "when u" with some stupid pop culture still attached. Everywhere I turn, I see this shit-tier cyber detritus. I am unable to escape it, even with endlessly tiresome filtering, list management, content blocking extensions and the like.

A long, long, long time ago, there was an absolutely delightful community called "b3ta" where people chatted and shared images (as still happens today), but there was a wonderful _culture_ to it, where it was simply socially unacceptable to post other people's content as your own, or even your own content if it wasn't really up to snuff. That seems unthinkable these days, as shameless reposting is not only the cultural norm, but the very business model for the largest web's primary attractions. And yet when I think about the delight the internet can bring, that's what I think of. I also think it's dangerous to cling to that nostalgia for the "golden era" of the internet, recognize that for the most part the great experiment has failed and to simply abandon it, or move on to the next thing with some of these bugs ironed out.

Re: Reddit confirms $300M Series D led by China’s Tencent at $3B value

#136
post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

While I think this is a little extreme, I understand fully the sentiment behind it. It's lamentable considering how simple the site is but there exist currently, no good alternatives! I suppose we can attribute that at least partly to the Network Effect. I've been tired of it since the front-end redesign; I grew weary of the dark patterns, the constant nagging to use their app when on mobile, the fact that my back bu…

I worked at reddit for 4 years but quit in 2016, largely because they were clearly beginning to switch from a small, fairly independent company (despite being owned by Advance/Conde) to one that was going to become completely dependent on venture capital and I knew what that would end up doing to the site (which, like you mentioned, is manifesting through the redesign, the dark patterns, and so on). They've now taken…

I was going to mention tildes but who better to do it than you!

I have been using tildes for about 6 months so far. I love the technical side of the website. Its fast and its minimal and doesn't seem to be sucking up my data. I also love the interactions I have had while using it.

What its missing is the specialty stuff. On reddit I can find a whole community focused on one programming language. On tildes I'm lucky to see a programming post.

But this leaves me with an interesting problem, how can you have a website that has enough users to make up a group for specialty interests without it becoming big enough that it turns in to reddit. It almost seems like the only way is to have totally separate sites for every interest.

Re: Reddit confirms $300M Series D led by China’s Tencent at $3B value

#137

As a site that derives the vast majority of its value from the contribution of its users it is a shame that they didn't open at least some level of participation in this round of funding to its users.

The constraint is SEC filing requirements https://www.investopedia.com/terms/1/2000-investor-limit.asp

Wealthy investors can find a connection or pay a bit of a premium with companies like https://equityzen.com/trending/reddit/ who (last I checked) promise you most of your share of the gains in exchange for a cut and keeping ownership over the actual options.

Re: Reddit confirms $300M Series D led by China’s Tencent at $3B value

#138

I've seen Reddit degrade painfully over last 8-10 years. It was full of intelligent comments, insight and unique perspective from people all over the world. Browsing the front page and reading the comments makes me sad that instead of intellectual discourse, we have a 3 billion dollar meme making machine. I wish to keep HN away from the masses as much as I'd like a broader perspective in the light of how things go wi…

Is weird, because reddit for me is great, sometimes even more than HN and stack overflow.

However, I suscribe to rust, mechanical keyboards, how make programming languages...

Re: Reddit confirms $300M Series D led by China’s Tencent at $3B value

#139
post #71
post #3

I’m done with Reddit. It was a nice ride, but now it’s officially over. They’ve been trying to turn reddit into Facebook, a personal data vacuum, but now it’s going to get ugly. Considering the valuation, remaining as an unpaid moderator for a reddit sub, is absolutely crazy. Hopefully all the mods up and leave, nothing like letting others get rich from your free efforts.

My advice would be to treat it like a tool: look up what you need, ask questions when you need to, but ignore it the rest of the time.

Its a tool covered in weird gunk and makes your hand feel dirty every time you use it. The website is slow and bloated and filled with mountains of JS and tracking

Re: Reddit confirms $300M Series D led by China’s Tencent at $3B value

#140

For anyone interested, I'm making an open source clone of reddit that is federated using activityPub. Everybody can host it's own server and each server can talk to eachother so you can interact with threads and comment from other servers. The project is in very early stage, but it's usable and lind of cute. https://moontreeproject.org

I think there are multiple projects of this sort. Is there an effort to make sure they are all compatible with each other? Does that even make sense?

The other one similar that I know of is prismo. If they all use activityPub they will be compatible. They will also be compatible with mastodon (which is like twitter), peertube (which is like youtube) and many others.
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