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

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

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Post by abnry »

lanevorockz wrote: post #46
abnry wrote: post #20

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This is very good advice. One of my most upvoted Hacker News comments was saying that creating an account and whitelisting the subreddits you want to read is a tremendous improvement on reddit. Funny thing to me is that it is really hard to isolate yourself in this way on Twitter. I've spent a lot of time trying to do this but politics always seems to leak through. One thing that has helped is by turning off retweets…

Twitter is a rage machine, that’s what makes people glued to it. Twitter threads are also a waste of time.

You're right about the rage machine. I don't mind the threads. When you follow the right people, it is pretty fun to see how their brain thinks in real time. I love thinking out loud in front of my audience too.

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

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Post by panorama »

voltagex_ wrote: post #77
derefr wrote: post #13

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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)

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

Why is this a problem? You're not forced to use it or interact with it. It's just a way for reddit to make more money, which I have no problem with.

old.reddit.com going away is a legitimate fear that I share, though.

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

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Post by james_s_tayler »

0xADEADBEE wrote: post #61
will_pseudonym wrote: post #35

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Same with Facebook. I usually just unfollow people who frequently post political things, but at the cost of missing out on their posts about their personal lives. I wish there was a "subject" filter that I could use to filter out political posts.

Twitter has one I learned recently, but it's pretty enfeebled. It's as far as I can tell, exact matches only, which sounds fine perhaps in the design phase, but was deeply frustrating in practice. There's a new political candidate in America generating lots of buzz who has several permutations of their name (abbreviations and hyphens were my undoing here), so I ended up having to add several entries just to not hear…

I put in so many things to filter out politics. Still inundated with it.

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

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Post by adventured »

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…

> What does it mean for America when it's no longer the owner or creator of culture?

That premise is no more valid today with China than it was at the height of Japan-takes-over-the-world mania.

Japan via Sony accumulated a large ownership position in US music. Sony acquired Columbia Pictures in 1989 for $3.4 billion, a huge deal at the time. Nintendo and Sega took over US video gaming from Atari. What did it mean? Nothing as it turns out.

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

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Post by abnry »

dvtrn wrote: post #42
theNJR wrote: post #26

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Ugh this is so true about Twitter. It really does seem like the feed is filled with political retweets. Good idea about turning them off.

Does anyone know if such functionality exists to disable seeing likes? I've turned off all retweets for exactly the reasons discussed but twitter still shows me that so and so liked some snarky thing so and si said about So and Se, Candidate from State about current affair. If I can prune that last bit, my twitter feed just might be saved.

I think Twitter's CEO is trying find ways to break "echo chambers" on twitter. I suspect this is part of the reason we are seeing what other people have liked. I get the reasoning, and maybe it would work, except that the liked tweets are usually the most inflammatory.

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

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Post by Simon_says »

computerex wrote: post #47
0xADEADBEE wrote: post #15

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While I think this is a little extreme, I understand fully the sentiment behind it. It's lamentable considering how simple the site is but there exist currently, no good alternatives! I suppose we can attribute that at least partly to the Network Effect. I've been tired of it since the front-end redesign; I grew weary of the dark patterns, the constant nagging to use their app when on mobile, the fact that my back bu…

Not to mention the fact that the site for some reason performs like shit on mobile. Never underestimate a corporate company's ability to overcomplicate/encumber a simple product to the point where it's barely usable.

They want to push you to the app.

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

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Post by icelancer »

paxys wrote: post #70
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…

TikTok is fully Chinese-owned as well, and is probably the most used app by teenagers today.

Is that true? Wasn't aware that it had a significant hold in US society. Thought Instagram and Snapchat still dominated quick engagement.

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

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Post by Simon_says »

curiousDog wrote: post #11

I'm probably a luddite but the new reddit ui is downright painful to use.

I have no idea how they rolled that out with a straight face. It's actively user-hostile. But I guess they figure people will get used to anything.

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

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Post by james_s_tayler »

peteretep wrote: post #62
robertAngst wrote: post #53

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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.

Probably the same phenomenon as when you first start a relationship or a job everything is wonderful because you just haven't had any negative reference experiences with the said entity yet. Then over time they accumulate and your view matures to one of "it's alright/not bad"
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