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> Its a meaningful argument from the POV of Reddit management, and their effort to build a profitable business Oh absolutely. I'm not disputing that. Of course
by baddox 11y ago
> Its a meaningful argument from the POV of Reddit management, and their effort to build a profitable business
Oh absolutely. I'm not disputing that. Of course they are doing all of this in pursuit of profit (or at least in pursuit of pleasing their board). The trouble is that, in my view, there is a conflict between the goal of pleasing the reddit board and the goal of creating a vibrant community.
- dragonwriter 11y ago> The trouble is that, in my view, there is a conflict between the goal of pleasing the reddit board and the goal of creating a vibrant community. If you can't run a business that brings in the money to keep the lights on, you can't maintain a vibrant community, either. I think a lot of the issue is that lots of people are attached to conditions that are only made possible by the willingness of investors to tolerate Reddit's lack of profitability in the expectation that that will be turned around in the future, but that that willingness is not sustainable.
- baddox 11y agoI suspect that reddit's goals are much more aggressive than just keeping the lights on. I do think that reddit could quite easily pay for their servers with their current level of monetization.