Reddit should focus on making their community less toxic, it’s hands down one of the most toxic places on the internet. These problems don’t need ML
that's a feature
Reddit acquires ML startup Spell
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#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
It used to be, but the push for monetization has poisoned that well. I don't know what comes after reddit but I'm keeping my eyes and ears open. Had a reddit recruiter reach out to me recently looking for engineering leadership for their upcoming product road map. What's in: ads, influencers, crypto, NFTs. What's not in: improving the core feature set of reddit like community management, curation, search, or user int…
The redesign and the complete stonewalling of it by most of the community is telling.
Do we have any data on percentage of users on old vs. new vs. mobile?
Re: Reddit acquires ML startup Spell
#43Video player fixes? Nope. Search being an open joke? Not going to even look at it. Purchase a few ML people? Oh that will surely increase our valuation. Do something about toxic supermods? That's a feature.
Reddit is a private subsidiary of a large private company, so I'm not sure why their valuation matters.
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#44Imagine how easy it would be to sell ads on reddit, the users self select topics. If I subscribed to r/koreancosmetics and r/makeup, do you really need ML to figure out which ads to show?
I have a Reddit account, but I've never subscribed to any subreddits.
Re: Reddit acquires ML startup Spell
#45Video player fixes? Nope. Search being an open joke? Not going to even look at it. Purchase a few ML people? Oh that will surely increase our valuation. Do something about toxic supermods? That's a feature.
Reddit is a private subsidiary of a large private company, so I'm not sure why their valuation matters.
Reddit is in the process of going public. They began filing last year.
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#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
I worked at Reddit for several years in the past - if anything, they have the exact opposite of viral momentum: https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1360263618508521480?lang=en I do agree on the neat alternative piece, but all of the ones that have come up in the past had some sort of flaw (or in some cases deliberate slower growth) that caused them not to go viral (Voat, Tildes, etc)
I'm honestly flabbergasted that with all the nearly-free money flowing around, nobody tried to build a better Reddit without making it both worse and even MORE filled with spam and nazis. I suspect in general the entire "thing" that is Reddit is on its way out - just like how craigslist killed classified ads and itself may be slowly dying, Reddit killed forums and now is slowly dying, there may be no replacement.
Currently building https://sqwok.im after years of using Reddit but seeking a better experience for live conversation.
Def not perfect and long way to go but so far it's been fun!
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#47Video player fixes? Nope. Search being an open joke? Not going to even look at it. Purchase a few ML people? Oh that will surely increase our valuation. Do something about toxic supermods? That's a feature.
> Do something about toxic supermods I got banned for a year from Armenia sub for criticizing an Armenian politician from the ruling party (who has been involved in a bunch of corruption scandals, including fake companies winning tenders under his grandma's name). The country subs, especially in post-USSR space, are run by ruling party representatives who tolerate zero dissent.
Shadowbanned (through automoderator) from all Dutch subs (same clique of moderators) for no apparent reason and mods won't even respond to my messages. Apparently I'm far from the only one this has happened to.
If Reddit doesn't do itself in it'll be the moderators ruining their own communities.
Re: Reddit acquires ML startup Spell
#48Imagine how easy it would be to sell ads on reddit, the users self select topics. If I subscribed to r/koreancosmetics and r/makeup, do you really need ML to figure out which ads to show?
Yeah, but what about scraping the entirety of a user's comment history to drive it through the algorithm to advertise to the things they aren't explicitly showing interest in?
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#49Re: Reddit acquires ML startup Spell
#50Reddit should prioritize their site working on the browser. Clicking a nested thread seems to crash whatever browser I use 1/10th of the time, the videos never work, and the time it takes to open a thread is almost unbelievable in 2022. (Never mind the times it won’t let me view content without the app.)
It's absurd how poorly the new reddit runs on a decent machine. Old reddit is smooth and still a fine experience, but new reddit turns my old laptop into a space heater.