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Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3B valuation

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Re: Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3B valuation

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Post by jameslevy »

karmickoala wrote: post #611
minimaxir wrote: post #16

I've been a fan of Reddit for a very long time (as the amount of data science work I've done with their data can attest to), but lately it seems like the incentives between Reddit as a business and Reddit as a community leader are not aligned, and that is a problem. The increasing amount of dark patterns Reddit has been employing lately is concerning. (recent example: Reddit now gates content in mobile Safari to push…

I was browsing it using Firefox Focus, it pointed me to two options to use reddit: the app or Chrome (with its logo). I didn't want to open Chrome, so I closed and tried again. Only then I noticed that it was referring to any browser instead of Chrome... Not entirely bad, but a bit annoying.

For me, the "read in Chrome" option in Mobile Safari never works. So there's a choice between two options, and actually your two options are to read in the native app, or to let the popover dialog take up half the screen in the mobile browser. This would be truly evil if it was intentional and not just a bug.

Re: Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3B valuation

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Post by vvillena »

qgsrw3fd wrote: post #607
opportune wrote: post #466

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yeah the people who want to redistribute money are equally as scary as the ones who are actively racist

If your comment is not sarcastic, you can go and ask in Eastern Europe if the people who want to "redistribute money" are scary or not.

Please, don't equate taxes to a complete nationalization of nearly all industries plus a ban on all monetary transactions save a few whitelisted types. It's an absurd comparison that does nothing to further the current discussion.

Re: Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3B valuation

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Post by andrewflnr »

this_user wrote: post #537
6cd6beb wrote: post #281

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>the platform itself hosts tons of alt-right, incel, racist, sexist, and violent content. This is despite being pretty ban-happy in general about topics they don't like. So now they've got the worst of a censorship-heavy platform and the worst of a censorship-free platform.

> This is despite being pretty ban-happy in general about topics they don't like. So now they've got the worst of a censorship-heavy platform and the worst of a censorship-free platform. I think you have to separate the admins, who are reddit employees, and the subreddit moderators, who are mostly not. The admins are ultimately accountable to the CEO, who is accountable to the board and, by extension, the investors.…

Citation on Gallowboob? The only accusation I'd heard against them was reposting too much.

Re: Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3B valuation

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Post by Bograff »

hart_russell wrote: post #530
6cd6beb wrote: post #281

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>the platform itself hosts tons of alt-right, incel, racist, sexist, and violent content. This is despite being pretty ban-happy in general about topics they don't like. So now they've got the worst of a censorship-heavy platform and the worst of a censorship-free platform.

the_donald subreddit is basically not allowed on the front page from what I understand

They sort of earned that by gaming the front page algorithms. The mods would repeatedly sticky 2 minute old posts and encouraged all their users to upvote the stickies. This caused any post of their choosing to surge into the the front page. They would have 1/4th of the front page full of posts less than 2 hours old pre-election.

Re: Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3B valuation

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Post by point78 »

ChrisSD wrote: post #98
tyingq wrote: post #47

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Would help if they dumped the AMP pages too. Landing there results in a useless "not logged in" and "partial content" page. AMP is just a terrible fit for Reddit pages.

But the AMP pages give them preferential treatment in Google search results. I doubt they'd want to give that up.

I think there have been some linked articles on hn on amp pages actually performing poorly for seo

Re: Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3B valuation

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Post by mrep »

debaserab2 wrote: post #349
fivefive55 wrote: post #292

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"10 years ago when reddit would go down, you rooted for them as the underdog to figure it out. Now when it happens, it's just sad. They still can't even handle the kind of traffic that the super bowl brings them. They've had years to figure this out." Reddit goes down pretty rarely and I can't remember when it was ever down more than an hour or two. It also definitely didn't go down for the SuperBowl that I saw. The…

It definitely was down for me during the Superbowl - I checked periodically throughout the broadcast and each time was met with a "reddit servers are currently down" with the reddit teletubby logo thing. They have intermittent server issues all the time that usually don't last all that long but I rarely if ever see intermittent server issues from any other top 20 site.

I also saw that and a lot of other people saw that [0]. However, outside of the past 2 weeks which I have seen the service unavailable messages, it has been pretty good.

[0]: https://downdetector.com/status/reddit/news/237455-problems-...

Re: Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3B valuation

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Post by MisterOctober »

irrational wrote: post #419
ssnistfajen wrote: post #232

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Yeah the horde of edgelords in WPD totally isn't one of the reasons the sub got quarantined. Gore will always be considered shock content, but the comments in WPD are almost always downright repulsive.

Dare I ask what an edgelord is?

obligatory xkcd : https://xkcd.com/2036/

Re: Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3B valuation

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Post by saalweachter »

saalweachter wrote: post #346
dhimes wrote: post #300

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Weren't they bought by Conde Nast a few years ago? Is that when it started to slide? EDIT: My how time flies. It was bought by CN in 2006!

Reddit is ~1 year younger than Facebook, and ~1 year older than Twitter.

Oh, and Digg is in between Facebook and Reddit in terms of founding, since Digg was the original point of comparison a few posts up.

(Plus the old "MySpace is only 6 months older than Facebook" [ignoring the semi-private nature of Facebook, initially].)

Re: Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3B valuation

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Post by Angostura »

calvinmorrison wrote: post #608
rchaud wrote: post #519

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It's when you behave online like you are 15 years old. Everything about you has to scream 'enlightened contrarian' or 'devil's advocate' otherwise you'll become one of those conformists clicking their fingers to Taylor Swift and Imagine Dragons. Conversations with them are impossible and frustrating because they aren't looking to talk to someone, they're looking to talk AT someone and collect as many upvotes as possi…

so the entirety of /r/politics?

I think you are confusing edgelord with circlejerk.
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