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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 by SXX »

voltagex_ wrote: post #77
derefr wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Reddit, like Usenet, or IRC, is just a collection of individual communities that happen to share an identity system. Expecting the (not-logged-in) Reddit front page to be “intellectual discourse” would be like expecting a random selection of Usenet posts or IRC chat-lines to be “intellectual discourse.” Try just visiting specific Reddit communities, rather than looking askew at the entire menagerie as if there was va…

Yes, I have a set of subreddits that I subscribe to as well. They don't fix: * The introduction of Reddit Gold, then the introduction of Reddit Silver - originally a joke, now a real thing * The degredation of the UI - old.reddit.com won't last forever * The push to mobile apps (see degredation of UI)

While I agree with general stance there is way to avoid these problems. The reason I use reddit much more than Twitter / Instagram is because there are nice open source UI-enhancement projects and clients.

> The degredation of the UI - old.reddit.com won't last forever

I pretty sure Reddit Enhancement Suite will just continue to be developed:

https://redditenhancementsuite.com/

> The push to mobile apps (see degredation of UI)

RedReader is open source and amazingly good for mobile.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.quantumbad...

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

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Post by Pharmakon »

gruez wrote: post #103
jorblumesea wrote: post #76

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China "owns" them in the investment sense, but is hardly responsible for creating it or the culture that birthed the ideas. That's the real key here. If many home grown Chinese apps or concepts take off (ala TikTok), you may be right. But at the moment, like everything in China it seems they are just keen to buy/cheat/steal. The only issue I can see from ownership is if they start to censor the platform.

>The only issue I can see from ownership is if they start to censor the platform. I doubt they'll do any overt censoring (eg. "no talking about what happened at Tiananmen Square in 1989), but I wouldn't be surprised if they do subtle manipulation like silently deemphasizing anti-China content, or emphasizing anti-westnern content (eg. infighting, failure of western democracy). The latter probably would probably even…

They’ve been plenty overt when someone talks about Taiwan...

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

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Post by flatline »

itake wrote: post #131
steve19 wrote: 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.

The original desktop site on mobile works fine for me, it’s all I’ve ever used. But it’s not the default and the redesign is unusable, so you have to configure each new browser you visit the site on. My usage has definitely dropped over the last few months due to usability alone.

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

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Post by Deimorz »

sublupo wrote: post #125
Deimorz wrote: post #51

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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…

Can you at least make it public for lurkers?

Yes, that should be happening within the next week (but it will still require an invite to register/participate).

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

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Post by jakebasile »

brownkonas wrote: post #56
adtac wrote: post #39

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I think a few DNS records can fix their UI, don't need 300MM for that. Just make reddit.com the same as old.reddit.com.

The mobile app UI is fantastic IMHO. List is snappy, easy to perform upvote, downvote, comment.

Their mobile app (on iOS) is pretty terrible in my opinion. I use Apollo. It's fairly priced and the developer is responsive, and it feels like an iOS app not a web app.

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

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Post by mulmen »

atomicUpdate wrote: post #95
mulmen wrote: post #49

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Really? That's sad. Our democratic values are not motivated by entertainment as far as I can tell. Neither is our capitalist approach to the economy. Really I'm not sure what component of American culture is driven by entertainment, other than the consumer oriented nature of our economy. But in that case entertainment is just one of many products.

The president is literally an ex-host for a reality TV show.

And most Americans don’t like him.

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

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Post by anfilt »

atomicUpdate wrote: post #110
anfilt wrote: post #93

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People used to host forums dedicated too a topic. Forums are still a thing... Reddit, is just a forum of forums... Why do we need centralized forums anyways?

Because they are a million times easier to browse when all on one site and there (usually) aren’t any worries about cross-promoting different subreddits. It also makes it a lot easier for knowledgeable people to poke their heads into a random thread and offer an opinion compared to going to another site. Unfortunately, all of that was a lot better 10 years ago.

However, people who would create a forum for a topic were often more dedicated. Same for those that seek out such a forum. You also got a lot of different quality of content from dedicated forums. At least for technical ones from my experience.

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

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Post by throwaway46e21 »

peteretep wrote: post #65

I don’t know what it means for America, but what it apparently means for China is no more Chinese villains in films for an international audience

Honestly, as an Asian American, I actually prefer the villain characters as opposed to the new “sidekick/background” character trope.

Hollywood writers and producers still know how to marginalize these new Chinese characters and unfortunately, it seems the Chinese audience is still naive to it.

At least the villains had agency. These new Chinese sidekicks only purpose is to serve the “American” hero.

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

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Post by scottydelta »

Reddit was outraged when the users heard that Reddit was going to take $150M from Tencent but now there is not a single mention of it on the frontpage even after they took double the earlier reported amount.

I cannot help but think if it's the Reddit's censorship is in play here.

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

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Post by colanderman »

peteretep wrote: post #65

I don’t know what it means for America, but what it apparently means for China is no more Chinese villains in films for an international audience

Or references to the sovereign nation of Taiwan, or the Dalai Lama or Tibet.

Allowing such an oppressive government to control so much of our cultural mindspace is quite chilling.

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