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I wish someone would actually invest in competing product, with less censorship and no braindead mods.
Reddit was my favorite website growing up. I'd discover new interesting subs, read random posts and comments. The frontpage was somewhat interesting too, but now it feels like a bot fest and propaganda machine. I still use Reddit but way less than I used to before, and I no longer use it for fun but just to read niche tech subs. I refuse to use the official mobile app. I've always used Baconreader and then Relay on A…
> but now it feels like a bot fest and propaganda machine. Pretty much sums up every popular social media platform these days. HN is still a good place to learn about whats going on in the tech world and what not because it's simple and filters out alot of "brainrot", although there is an increasing number of comments that soley react at the headline. Reddit has become like meta, you either have an account or your us…
Another point i would like to discuss, if someone has more knowledge than me: How the fuck was reddit not profitable? The founder said it but i still don't belive it. Was all the money spent in bullshit features no one still uses or it was before that?
This results in companies rapidly growing until no more profit can be made in the short term at which point they start cutting costs to continue show profit. The cuts result in destroying the long term value (firing valuable know how etc.) for a short term profit. At the end the company dies or becomes a sad zombie.
Rinse and repeat.
Reddit was my favorite website growing up. I'd discover new interesting subs, read random posts and comments. The frontpage was somewhat interesting too, but now it feels like a bot fest and propaganda machine. I still use Reddit but way less than I used to before, and I no longer use it for fun but just to read niche tech subs. I refuse to use the official mobile app. I've always used Baconreader and then Relay on A…
> but now it feels like a bot fest and propaganda machine. Pretty much sums up every popular social media platform these days. HN is still a good place to learn about whats going on in the tech world and what not because it's simple and filters out alot of "brainrot", although there is an increasing number of comments that soley react at the headline. Reddit has become like meta, you either have an account or your us…
Then go make one. It’s easier now than ever. The social media mistake was trying to make one site everything to everyone but the web is still there.
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Whatever number of users are or were bots it was and is still one of the most visited sites in the world and it was text based (before the image and video hosting) with the added bonus of the user autotargetting themselves and their interests...how can it NOT be profitable?
Personally, the only people in my circle of friends I know that use it heavily are single, older liberal Millennials. Plenty of others use it for niche topics at times, but not to the same extent. To young people, it might as well be a more boring Facebook. The key demo of 18 to 34 is mostly uninterested. Of the next demo, you only have one slice of the pie who interacts much at all. Compared to most other social med…
Because it does not guarantee visibility.
"Why pay for advertising on Facebook when you can have a Facebook page?"
The advantage of going the proxy route is that you only have to do this once after which you can access those sites from all your devices without needing to install separate apps.
Another point i would like to discuss, if someone has more knowledge than me: How the fuck was reddit not profitable? The founder said it but i still don't belive it. Was all the money spent in bullshit features no one still uses or it was before that?
2019 350 million users
2024 504 million users
Man, i just hate the new reddit, but in a way i appreciate the fact that the update literally stopped me from continuing to use it. It was my togo app, i spent hours browsing and reading random comments and articles, my English got surprisingly better than most of my peers and all it took was a mild internet addiction. Now it's short form content for me. YouTube mainly (premium helps a lot, tiktok enshittified a litt…
> Now it's short form content for me. YouTube mainly Videos take much longer than reading text . And they mostly say the same things. It's just that the better content has moved to youtube, where it can be monetized better
But I’m a late boomer, so I come from the last century. I consume video content, but also, a great deal of written stuff.
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Personally, the only people in my circle of friends I know that use it heavily are single, older liberal Millennials. Plenty of others use it for niche topics at times, but not to the same extent. To young people, it might as well be a more boring Facebook. The key demo of 18 to 34 is mostly uninterested. Of the next demo, you only have one slice of the pie who interacts much at all. Compared to most other social med…
--- Also, why pay to advertise when you can just make a shill account for free? --- Because it does not guarantee visibility. "Why pay for advertising on Facebook when you can have a Facebook page?"
Plus, the users are self segregated, what a dream.
Imagine you wanted to sell drop shipped backpacks. All you'd need to do is create and prime, or buy, a dozen or so accounts, and start recommending your own brand subtly in every recommendation thread in r/backpacks or whatever the most popular sub for it is.
People trust Reddit because they assume they're other real users. Many advertisers already know and take advantage of this. It's nearly impossible at this point to know who or what is authentic.