66 points

What’s Reddit

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Exactly. I would recommend people do another blackout right before it, but who gives a shit? It’s so corporate and shitty. I’ll never go back…

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19 points

It’s a terrible Lemmy clone from what I’ve seen.

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20 points

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8 points

And he looks like a pedophile in prep school

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1 point

That’s because he is!

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38 points

So I really hope Lemmy ramps up infrastructure before then XD

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29 points

Especially mod tools.

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-24 points

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17 points

Suit yourself, I guess! :-P

I often up-vote people that disagree with me, most especially when they are right and I am wrong.:-)

But I can’t stand trolls - even when they speak the truth they do so in such an offensive manner.

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ifunny

Discarded.

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7 points

I mean… you are more than welcome to.

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2 points

Is there a way to spread the word without being banned?

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20 points

Looks like it’s shorts in March for 2024

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5 points

You’ll have to wait a teenzy bit longer for the options to come available (unless you are like, truly loaded).

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They are about 2 years too late.

The rise in interest rates and the end of easy VC money has swung the dial back to: Companies actually need to generate profit and not just show user growth to be attractive to investors.

The IPO will not go as spez dreamed for so long.

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42 points

They rise in interest rates and the end of easy VC money has swung the dial back to: Companies actually to generate profit and not just show user growth to be attractive to investors.

Yep, but also, I think spez is done. He’s just cashing out and fuck you etc… etc…

He’ll catch enough to successfully eject and thats that for him. Reddit will die. But we’ll have survived, and the open web will continue.

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26 points

Yes, he will cash out but I feel it will only be a fraction of what he hoped to get.

He will be comfortably rich but to someone who expected to be obscenely rich, he will see it as a failure.

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20 points

Serves him right for pissing on Aaron Swartz’s grave. In fact, it’s hardly justice.

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14 points

Of course spez is cashing out. That was the whole point of returning as CEO after Ellen Pao was sacrificed to cleanse the site and make it investor friendly. He just wants to cash out more than the $6 million he got the first time.

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20 points

I’m not convinced Reddit will die. I think it will continue to limp along in its zombie state. But I kind of wish you were right, just because I’m still a bit mad about it.

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15 points

I think it will continue to limp along in its zombie state.

Well, Digg still exists

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2 points

I mean, idk man.

Going public does funny things to a company.

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15 points

He’ll only get to buy three yachts instead of 5. Seriously, he’s going to have a s’ton of the highest rank shares, all they have to do is hold the lie together long enough to sell.

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9 points

all they have to do is hold the lie together long enough to sell.

That last phrase is really doing a lot of heavy lifting. When you own a large chuck of stock in a post IPO company, trying to cash out large ownership stakes has the effect of crashing the price.

My expectation is that what ever the IPO price is, one year from then (the usual minimum time to be able to sell a stake like spez will have) it will be lucky to be 5% of the launch price.

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29 points

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9 points

Especially with all the tech layoffs right now.

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Not just that but the golden era of social media is probably over. With the advent of free access to powerful AI, user content is about to become hot garbage. And with 30% of the Internet using adblockers, I wouldn’t touch reddit with a long stick.

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3 points

To the absolute shock of no one

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