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Hey, Reddit was all fake users at the start, making people think it was active and persuading them to join.
by RGBCube 3y ago
Hey, Reddit was all fake users at the start, making people think it was active and persuading them to join.
- xingped 3y agoDust to dust, ashes to ashes.
- kkielhofner 3y agoYouTube famously spent many of their first years turning a blind eye to blatant copyright infringement. Shady “growth hacking” is more the norm than not for many of these early stage social companies that have chicken/egg Metcalfe’s Law issues for user adoption.
- rchaud 3y agoYouTube had to have an informal deal worked something out with the studios. Circa 2004, the internet was awash in streaming video sites with copyrighted Family Guy and Futurama clips, which were often taken down. Then boom, one day those sites themselves go offline, and that content all moves to Youtube, where it stays up.
- maeil 3y agoYou remember the timeline very differently than I do. Dailymotion, just to give one example, was full of such content until at least 2010.