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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 yourbandsucks »

colordrops wrote: post #178
yourbandsucks wrote: post #153

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's a bit of a supremacist take, no offense. Maybe rather than complaining about it, we should actually build things? Maybe we should pay a schoolteacher more than 1/4 what an advertising optimizer makes?

No offense taken, but curious how you see it as supremacist.

Not you specifically but more the thread.

We sell everything to the highest bidder, buy from the cheapest supplier, but then when it's a Chinese company investing it's suddenly a cultural crisis?

If a German company was buying part of Reddit, would it be the same cultural crisis?

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

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Post by axaxs »

fermienrico wrote: post #8

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…

Precisely. I can't spend five minutes on Reddit without getting frustrated. This community feel is perfect. I don't know how it's lasted as long, but kudos to the mods here.

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

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Post by paulcole »

peteretep wrote: post #62
robertAngst wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

HN has gotten worse since I started visiting ~2 years ago. That said, still some of the best comments.

I have been here rather longer than you, and not noticed a decline in the time period you’ve identified. I do note however there seems to be a tendency in all communities for people to think it declined since they started using it.

I won’t join any club that would have me as a member.

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

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Post by SECProto »

dvtrn wrote: post #42
theNJR wrote: 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.

if you click the ... on the "so and so liked this tweet" and select "dont show me this", it hides that particular "liked" tweet. Do it enough, and it seems to hide them all. At least it worked for me - I only see original tweets and retweets from those i havent turned off. YMMV

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

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Post by baby »

colanderman wrote: post #150
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.

because you think the US mindset is not controlling a major number of movies? Have you watched American Sniper?

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Post by baby »

komali2 wrote: post #169
gruez wrote: post #103

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>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…

The Chinese government forced USA airlines to remove mention of the sovereign nation of Taiwan. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-44948599 They also forced GAP to remove a proper map of China that accurately displays its sovereign borders off a sweater, and then, heinously, forced it to release a map that incorrectly displays Taiwan as a portion of Chinese territory through GAP marketing channels. (Incidental…

A great display of how one can rewrite history with enough power.

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

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Post by withhighprod »

theNJR wrote: post #96
jorblumesea wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I think the cheat/steal method of describing China is becoming outdated. Cheat/steal is a viable technique to quickly catch up if you don't mind being a bad actor in a game theory setting. Then you have to surpass. In AI they seem to be at the late stages of stealing. The top two films in the global box office last weekend were both Chinese (The Wandering Earth, $172m and Crazy Alien, $77m). Chinese blockbusters seem…

Late stage of stealing.... check out who invented resnet and the Chinese names on NIPS, CVPR,ICCV

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

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Post by pwaai »

fermienrico wrote: post #8

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…

Funny you say that about HN, for a lot of us veterans on HN, we argue the exact same thing happened to HN.

HN today has deteriorated, what used to be a liberal and open minded place to explore new ideas, it has become a self promoting (especially if you are YC fam) to a large degree, and heavy policing.

With the rise of cryptocurrency I saw a lot more shill accounts manipulating comments and such.

So many of us have left HN, maybe there's something like HN out there?

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

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Post by ardy42 »

throwaway46e21 wrote: post #154
syntaxing wrote: post #72

Is there a good alternative to Reddit? I've been a pretty heavy user for almost a decade but they have been disappointing these past couple of years. I hate how their "principles" aren't consistent. They ban certain subreddit for certain violation while keeping others that fit the same exact category. They never provide an answer to the commuity either. Where do I go to now?! HN is my only safe haven left...

Metafilter

Careful about that one, though. Unless your views are orthodox for the site, you'd better enjoy walking on eggshells if you want to post there.

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

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Post by baby »

scottydelta wrote: post #149

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.

Or people don't mind THAT much that a Chinese company has a stake in Reddit. It is probably not going to change much, if not increase relationships between the US and China.
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