Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

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

techcrunch.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

71–80 of 296 posts

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

#71

Post by movedx »

carboy wrote: post #3

I’m done with Reddit. It was a nice ride, but now it’s officially over. They’ve been trying to turn reddit into Facebook, a personal data vacuum, but now it’s going to get ugly. Considering the valuation, remaining as an unpaid moderator for a reddit sub, is absolutely crazy. Hopefully all the mods up and leave, nothing like letting others get rich from your free efforts.

My advice would be to treat it like a tool: look up what you need, ask questions when you need to, but ignore it the rest of the time.

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

#72

Post by syntaxing »

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...

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

#73

Post by faleidel »

For anyone interested, I'm making an open source clone of reddit that is federated using activityPub. Everybody can host it's own server and each server can talk to eachother so you can interact with threads and comment from other servers.

The project is in very early stage, but it's usable and lind of cute.

https://moontreeproject.org

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

#74

Post by adventured »

JohnJamesRambo wrote: post #36
mulmen wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It sounds like you're conflating entertainment with culture.

I’m not sure we have culture anymore that isn’t entertainment.

> I’m not sure we have culture anymore that isn’t entertainment.

I think that's pretty unnecessarily cynical.

It's all around you. It's in the people: their beliefs, their charity, their hopes, their parents, their children, their food, their routines, their compassion, their striving. 330 million people and dozens of major cultural sub-groups, it's extraordinarily rich.

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

#75

Post by o10449366 »

movedx wrote: post #40
o10449366 wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

10+ year user, I only consistently browse ~3 subreddits now. I realized it was time to move on when I was using Reddit Enhancement Suite more than Reddit itself. My subreddit filter list (so not including keyword filters, blocked users, domain filters, etc.) is currently 1,391, which translates to 2 or 3 unfiltered posts out of 25 if I browse r/all. "Why don't you just browse your own front page instead of r/all?" I…

> My subreddit filter list (so not including keyword filters, blocked users, domain filters, etc.) is currently 1,391, which translates to 2 or 3 unfiltered posts out of 25 if I browse r/all. I don't understand what you mean here. It sounds as though you have a black list versus the superior option of a white list (in this case)? Surely it's better to let in what you want and ignore everything else by default versus…

It wasn't originally my intention for the filter list to become so comprehensive, but it's steadily grown over time as the content on Reddit has degraded. I've been building the filter list since it became a feature in RES. Also, while rare, I still do find new subreddits through r/all, so I prefer the "everything but B" to "only A" approach of filtering.

I wasn't even aware it was possible to have a whitelist and I'm not quite sure what you're referring to, to be honest. I'm guessing it would be easy enough to construct now that RES supports complicated custom rules, but I think at this point I'm too lazy to. It's far more convenient to be able to just hover over a post and one-click filter a subreddit from the card RES displays.

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

#76

Post by jorblumesea »

theNJR wrote: post #28

Tencent has a meaningful ownership of American youth. 12% Snap 7.5% Spotify 40% Epic Games 100% Riot Games 100% Supercell 5% Reddit Hollywood has also been moving in this direction, with a lot of Chinese investment in the studios, and blockbusters adding special scenes with Chinese actors and locations. What does it mean for America when it's no longer the owner or creator of culture? It's historically one of our lar…

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.

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

#77

Post by voltagex_ »

derefr wrote: post #13
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…

Reddit, like Usenet, or IRC, is just a collection of individual communities that happen to share an identity system. Expecting the (not-logged-in) Reddit front page to be “intellectual discourse” would be like expecting a random selection of Usenet posts or IRC chat-lines to be “intellectual discourse.” Try just visiting specific Reddit communities, rather than looking askew at the entire menagerie as if there was va…

Yes, I have a set of subreddits that I subscribe to as well. They don't fix:

* The introduction of Reddit Gold, then the introduction of Reddit Silver - originally a joke, now a real thing

* The degredation of the UI - old.reddit.com won't last forever

* The push to mobile apps (see degredation of UI)

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

#78

Post by nickpsecurity »

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.

People often react negatively to change in what they hold dear. It could just be that they all started using these communities, loved the experience at that time, the experience changed, and then they feel the "community" (not their experience) "declined over time." Might just be an instance of that more general tendency.

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

#79

Post by Simon_says »

movedx wrote: post #40
o10449366 wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

10+ year user, I only consistently browse ~3 subreddits now. I realized it was time to move on when I was using Reddit Enhancement Suite more than Reddit itself. My subreddit filter list (so not including keyword filters, blocked users, domain filters, etc.) is currently 1,391, which translates to 2 or 3 unfiltered posts out of 25 if I browse r/all. "Why don't you just browse your own front page instead of r/all?" I…

> My subreddit filter list (so not including keyword filters, blocked users, domain filters, etc.) is currently 1,391, which translates to 2 or 3 unfiltered posts out of 25 if I browse r/all. I don't understand what you mean here. It sounds as though you have a black list versus the superior option of a white list (in this case)? Surely it's better to let in what you want and ignore everything else by default versus…

I feel qualified to chime in because this is the way I use reddit, too, with similar numbers of filtered subreddits.

There are two reasons to do it this way. The first is that you never find smaller subreddits you might like with a whitelist. The second is that reddit will not actually give you a whitelist of subreddits. It instead picks a random 50 subreddits among your subscriptions and limits itself to those. That 50 is fixed for a period of time (I don't know how long).

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

#80

Post by Simon_says »

ihuman wrote: post #43
o10449366 wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

10+ year user, I only consistently browse ~3 subreddits now. I realized it was time to move on when I was using Reddit Enhancement Suite more than Reddit itself. My subreddit filter list (so not including keyword filters, blocked users, domain filters, etc.) is currently 1,391, which translates to 2 or 3 unfiltered posts out of 25 if I browse r/all. "Why don't you just browse your own front page instead of r/all?" I…

Why not just buy a premium membership?

I think it's immoral to support that website.
Post reply on HN