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Re: Reddit files to go public

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Post by nunez »

throwaway1777 wrote: post #418
nunez wrote: post #334

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…

Tiktok is not really based on your social graph. I think it’s kinda like Reddit in some ways but far less in depth content and actual interaction.

You are correct in that it's not based on an explicit social graph (i.e. who I tag as my "friend"), but it is based on an implicit social graph (i.e. who I like watching/listening to).

Re: Reddit files to go public

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Post by nunez »

simonebrunozzi wrote: post #479
nunez wrote: post #334

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…

> Good! I‘ll go long on them. 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.

Having insider knowledge as an outsider is great, but you can also long a stock if you think the company has a strong vision and is executing on it.

Re: Reddit files to go public

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Post by nunez »

Semaphor wrote: post #336
nunez wrote: post #309

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if facebook can maintain mbasic, then reddit can maintain old. the onboarding funnel is towards new reddit anyway, old is mature and _appears_ stable, and most folks new to the platform will use their official app. i can see the API becoming more restrictive in the coming years, like Facebook and Twitter’s before it.

The fabricated issues with old are starting to appear, though. Slow reddit now supports markdown code blocks with 3 `’s instead of 4 spaces, which gets rendered as normal inline-text on old. Using the editor to insert links with _ in them on slow, will escape the underscores (…/this_is/ => …/this\_is/), breaking the links for users of the fast version. The worst part (for me) is, that I actually like the new reddit.…

tons of scrolling gifs blow through that performance high-watermark, especially on mobile (even on the M1 iPad)

Re: Reddit files to go public

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Post by derbOac »

skinnymuch wrote: post #733
derbOac wrote: post #592

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But should those numbers be normalized for total numbers of internet users? I'm honestly not sure but I think there's an argument for it. The internet was a smaller place as a whole before Digg's collapse. They can't have had users that didn't exist. On the other hand, maybe turnover can be more rapid when a domain such as the internet itself is rapidly developing. Just seems to me there's broader factors to consider…

My best argument to this that I would gladly be proven wrong so I don’t look silly being wrong. Is there any example in the past ~7 years of any major cultural use content sites that had precedence like Digg losing influence the way Digg and others did? The only examples that I can think of are things like Yahoo Answers, Quora, Tumblr. Leaving Tumblr aside just to see if there’s any other examples, are there? We coul…

I agree there's few if any examples of more recent entities. I also am pretty unfamiliar with actual numbers of active users per se, though. Tumblr may be the closest, maybe Quora although I'm not sure even Quora compares to Reddit. Maybe Snapchat? Flickr? Probably not; I'm not sure about those for several reasons.

I think there might be some kind of memory bias in the sense that we're less likely to remember things that have receded into the background or even disappeared but I agree that as more users come on board because of network effects it's harder to let go of a service or to replace what it has to offer.

Re: Reddit files to go public

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Post by iratewizard »

seattle_spring wrote: post #80
iratewizard wrote: post #26

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Market predictability is at an extreme low. Rug pulls are happening on a regular basis, and spy is regularly being propped up by a few random, overvalued stocks.

What are some examples of rug pulls? All of the ones I can think of are ICOs, not IPOs. I can, however, think of dozens of IPOs that have gone gangbusters.

Woof, csco, essc, snow...

Re: Reddit files to go public

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Post by emodendroket »

ankit219 wrote: post #750
emodendroket wrote: post #712

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I think it is similar in this sense: those users are in a funnel as long as they visit regularly. Not everybody who walks into a store buys something, but if the store is busy that’s a good sign.

There is a distinct possibility that those users arent visiting regularly. They visit via Google search, explore a bit, don't create an account. Next time they come in, it's again via Google search. Reddit may or may not be able to track them. And again, you cant see that they are even visiting a page. All the signals - upvotes, comments, etc. are only available when logged in. (except for video views)

Right. My point is that after you get there by search results or shared links enough times some percentage of users will create an account.

Re: Reddit files to go public

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Post by Shared404 »

fknorangesite wrote: post #738
Gareth321 wrote: post #470

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There are lots of interesting potential new homes popping up, including SaidIt.net, Tildes.net, Gab.com, even Parler.com and/or whatever Donal Trump has announced. Problem for all of them is their lack of critical mass. Reddit is slowly squeezing users and communities out to appeal to advertisers, but they haven't had their Digg moment yet. That would be something like killing old.reddit.com. Such a catalyst would ca…

The problem with the sites you've listed isn't "lack of critical mass" it's that they're infested with neo-nazis. Big yikes from me, dawg.

Yeah...

Anyone know of any that aren't? Most things around that I know of are from people getting banned from reddit and building their own.

Just checked out tildes.net, that one seems pretty ok at a first glance.

Re: Reddit files to go public

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Post by dt3ft »

nunez wrote: post #758
dt3ft wrote: post #399

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I built whoaverse during my studies which went on to become voat. You do not need a lot of resources to run such a site, but you do need a way to monetize it. We ran on donations and the ads that we ran were never profitable. Donations are not profit either, so it was working purely because we could afford some time off to work on it. This does not work in the long run, if you can no longer justify working for free.…

Thanks for building voat! for what it's worth, I liked it.

Thank you, glad to hear that :) Stop by 20-things sometimes if you can, I still go by Atko there.

Re: Reddit files to go public

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Post by GhettoComputers »

eljimmy wrote: post #713
PhoenixReborn wrote: post #663

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Disclaimer: I worked at Reddit prior to when ads were a major revenue source and left in 2018 Prior to ads and the current dark patterns you see on the site, Reddit primarily tried to monetize through Reddit Gold. It didn't work, and users never purchased it in any meaningful volume to keep the site afloat. So while you wouldn't give them money for the decisions they've made recently, they weren't making enough money…

Interesting - I never knew that was the purpose of Reddit gold. I feel like a donation drive with direct acknowledgement that it would keep the site private and free of external financial interests would have provoked me to donate. I thought Reddit gold was just some meaningless emoji thing.

Really? It was pretty obvious, my guilded comments and gold stats even says that donation paid for an amount of server time.
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