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Would this be the first public porn platform? A flippant remark, but Reddit is a not insignificant facilitator of pornography alongside many great safe for work subreddits and we will probably see them trying to stop this before or after going public. That or changing the terms of use for users to be 18 from the current 13.
Not even close.
> Reddit is a huge publisher of pornography
No, they aren't. Section 230 says so.
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I only use teddit.net to access reddit these days. On those odd occasions that I follow a link to the actual reddit site I'm reminded why I avoid it: - Pop-up to download app - Pop-up has been un-clearable on a number of occasions - Having to click "read more" to see more than two posts - Having to click a link to a new page to follow a thread more than two / three replies deep (and often finding that it's only a sin…
I cyncially feel like your third point is to save them on egress data. Better to send two comments for a post that quite a few people will never read the comments of.
Good! I‘ll go long on them. Reddit is the ONLY place on the Internet where you can simultaneously watch garbage recycled content from TikTok and visit extremely-niche and highly knowledgeable communities in the same session. Heck, I get my HN updates from Reddit now. Facebook/Instagram/TikTok are nothing like this in that the info you get is wholly dependent on your social graph. Twitter has very high quality content…
> Reddit can fit nicely into the metaverse Why do people keep talking about the metaverse like it already exists and is a huge part of our future? It's vaporware right now. Are we all so susceptible to marketing that we've just accepted that if Meta is going all-in on a thing it must be both real and a guaranteed win?
Its nothing more than a way for a few companies to monetize a few extra things and become gate keepers to things that have neither on the internet.
The metaverse is basically what the internet would be if it was invented today
This is not good. The only reason I am still using Reddit is because of the old.reddit.com interface. Feels like an IPO will make them retire it at some point.
If they retired old.reddit then the only time I would browse reddit would be when I use my phone, which I only do when I have no computer to interact with or before bed. If they then do the logical thing and block third party apps then I will just stop using reddit completely, because using the official app just isn't worth it.
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I last as long as the APIs allow Apollo to be amazing.
I've been saying this for years. Reddit's official app is very poor and they've broken the mobile web experience by choice. The day Sync stops working will be my final day on the platform.
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Genuinely curious...are you old enough to remember Digg and what happened to it? I don't mean that to be patronizing...but I remember being on Digg and Reddit being a weird alternative. And after a series of huge mistakes, almost overnight Reddit was flooded with users and Digg relegated to nothing. It really opened my eyes to how quickly an empire built only on its users can disappear.
> It really opened my eyes to how quickly an empire built only on its users can disappear. Reminds me of the Freenode IRC network which pretty much stopped existing[1][2] overnight. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freenode#Ownership_change_and_... [2] https://gist.github.com/prawnsalad/4ca20da6c2295ddb06c164679...
It was essentially just an infrastructure change, which is the nice thing about open protocols and server implementations. Libera has 40k users and over 1000 foss projects that were on freenode.
the freenode userbase and community is alive and well, just under a new link
The Reddit of 2006 where tutorials on generating HTML in Lisp rocket to the top of the homepage is long gone. I can't imagine investing in an ad company that is fueled by clickbait and outrage the way Reddit is. Plus, some percentage of the userbase will always run aggressive ad blockers and be impossible to effectvely monetize. However, my brain works very differently from other people's, so I could be wrong.
I've been following lemmy [0] for a while, a federated reddit alternative in the same spirit as mastodon. It's still very small, but I think as monetization pressure on reddit increases, people will look for other places to post and this might be one of them :) edit: add the link [0] https://join-lemmy.org/
Since I already have an account on a mastodon instance I first thought I can just connect to lemmy instances using that but that is apparently not possible.
Good! I‘ll go long on them. Reddit is the ONLY place on the Internet where you can simultaneously watch garbage recycled content from TikTok and visit extremely-niche and highly knowledgeable communities in the same session. Heck, I get my HN updates from Reddit now. Facebook/Instagram/TikTok are nothing like this in that the info you get is wholly dependent on your social graph. Twitter has very high quality content…
Nothing specific on Reddit, but I'd like to point out that when you go long on a stock, you should at least try to possess some specific knowledge that most people don't have about that company.
Reddit might be great; but if everyone knows about it, then the price is going to reflect that already.
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It does exist in the form of Roblox :)
Since we’re talking about Reddit, my take is that Roblox is Digg and Rec Room (which is VR-native and has much better tech even though it currently has lower user numbers) will end up being the “Reddit” of the space.
Then after every match I have to spend time opening up some kind of gift that I have no use for. All the while 13 year old kids are being annoying yelling and whining. It’s a pretty rough experience right now.