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I wonder how much more this will happen with the current controversy surrounding Reddit’s funding and uncertain future. They are doing surprisingly well after a

by snazz 8y ago

I wonder how much more this will happen with the current controversy surrounding Reddit’s funding and uncertain future. They are doing surprisingly well after a horrid redesign and everything else that’s happened over there.

superkuh 8y ago
Reddit is transitioning to a Facebook model to suck up all the users that are hemorrhaging from over there. There's a new concentration on posting to personal profiles, integrating commercial entities (ie, u/washingtonpost) as "users" to blend in their ads seemlessly, and gentrifying to appease these new adertisers that don't want to be next to potentially controversial content. These are all things that don't bother the new users at all and the loss of the founding population of redditors isn't causing any tears at corporate. Of course they go after the scoundrels first in this quest but as the frog slowly boils more and more mainstream 'controversial' subreddits like changemyview will get pushed out.
- chillacy 8y ago
  I think that was inevitable the moment they started taking big VC money. There's most proven way to become massively profitable is trading your user's attention for ad money.
- skinnymuch 8y ago
  Are personal profiles being used? I don’t reddit that much anymore. But they don’t seem to be used much and they’ve been around for some time now.
deadalus 8y ago
More and more sub-reddits are getting banned on Reddit everyday. Many sub-reddits are preserving their content before they get hammered. r/DarkNetMarkets has https://www.gwern.net/DNM-archives https://www.gwern.net/DNM-archives r/TheRedPill has https://trpbackup.com/ https://trpbackup.com/ Reddit got rid of the "post view count" and has decided to " restrict access to sub-reddit traffic pages to mods only". source : https://redd.it/6atvgi https://redd.it/6atvgi

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I wonder how much more this will happen with the current controversy surrounding Reddit’s funding and uncertain future. They are doing surprisingly well after a

by snazz 8y ago

superkuh 8y ago
Reddit is transitioning to a Facebook model to suck up all the users that are hemorrhaging from over there. There's a new concentration on posting to personal profiles, integrating commercial entities (ie, u/washingtonpost) as "users" to blend in their ads seemlessly, and gentrifying to appease these new adertisers that don't want to be next to potentially controversial content. These are all things that don't bother the new users at all and the loss of the founding population of redditors isn't causing any tears at corporate. Of course they go after the scoundrels first in this quest but as the frog slowly boils more and more mainstream 'controversial' subreddits like changemyview will get pushed out.
- chillacy 8y ago
  I think that was inevitable the moment they started taking big VC money. There's most proven way to become massively profitable is trading your user's attention for ad money.
- skinnymuch 8y ago
  Are personal profiles being used? I don’t reddit that much anymore. But they don’t seem to be used much and they’ve been around for some time now.
deadalus 8y ago
More and more sub-reddits are getting banned on Reddit everyday. Many sub-reddits are preserving their content before they get hammered. r/DarkNetMarkets has https://www.gwern.net/DNM-archives https://www.gwern.net/DNM-archives r/TheRedPill has https://trpbackup.com/ https://trpbackup.com/ Reddit got rid of the "post view count" and has decided to " restrict access to sub-reddit traffic pages to mods only". source : https://redd.it/6atvgi https://redd.it/6atvgi