TX81Z

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by TX81Z 3y ago
I didn’t actually say what I think about anything.
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by TX81Z 3y ago
I mean, the web is big right? There are plenty of forums people still use, maybe some big subreddit just go back that route.
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by TX81Z 3y ago
Or how CERN and DARPA get their money.
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by TX81Z 3y ago
I mean more like “going head to head against Microsoft in office productivity” type moat, vs “this is hard for a solo dev with no budget” type moat. Reddit has no real moat.
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by TX81Z 3y ago
That’s my point: they benefit from a huge volunteer labor subsidy. They can’t afford to moderate it themselves as they clearly don’t have the financial resources. They are free to run the biz into the ground, won’t be the first or last to d
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by TX81Z 3y ago
“Yes, but you see the problem is I want to pee in YOUR pool. If I were to build my own pool then I’d have to swim YOUR pee.”
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by TX81Z 3y ago
I’ll never figure with an internet this vast, anybody would be unable to take a hint that a particular community doesn’t want them and move on to one that does. If a community bans you it’s the wrong community for you, it’s not a conspiracy
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by TX81Z 3y ago
The internet is built on communism!
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by TX81Z 3y ago
“No”
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by TX81Z 3y ago
Yes, exactly, that sentiment isn’t mainstream. It goes against dominant social values and norms. The dominant view in society is stuff like ”jailbait” shouldn’t be tolerated. The reason it’s not outright illegal is in a non-prurient contex
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by TX81Z 3y ago
“If you think everyone around you is an asshole, chances are…”
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by TX81Z 3y ago
Yes and no, the tech of a forum is not interesting, but fostering a healthy community that generates value is an eternally novel problem as every success has been the result of good timing more than anything else.
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by TX81Z 3y ago
And they haven’t figured out a way to do it *legally*. Both are getting fined more by the day in the EU and fending off more class lawsuits than you can believe in the USA. Once you take away the “grossly illegal activity” dividend neither
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by TX81Z 3y ago
The fact that he isn’t keeping his free labor force happy is the problem. Other companies put hundreds of millions of dollars and thousands of staff into moderation. This moron has people doing that FOR FREE and he’s pissing them off. Serio
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by TX81Z 3y ago
The thing I think this conversation should be about is how horrible their site is. I don’t think the third parties costs Reddit money, I think if anything they keep the user base inclusive of people with disabilities and allow people who wo
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by TX81Z 3y ago
The age of adtech as the dominant technology revenue model is drawing to a close and Reddit missed out on the golden age. Trying to make ads work now, when it’s clear the future is subscriptions and the like, is just dumb.
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by TX81Z 3y ago
They shut down a sub called “jailbait”, I’d say the vast majority of people are ok with that type of “censorship”. And if being against that disgusting trash makes me “pro-censorship”, fine.
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by TX81Z 3y ago
Necessity is the mother of invention. A CRUD app with a UX so bad people feel the need to use third-party clients isn’t exactly a moat. Half the people here could scaffold a Reddit clone in a week or less.
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by TX81Z 3y ago
“Our data”.
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by TX81Z 3y ago
…until people stop using it because other people stopped using it. They are playing with fire.
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by TX81Z 3y ago
A friend there once told me the exec-level staff basically just does what the users want and they lack any real “authority” over the site. However, the drawback is they had a lot of great ideas for improvements but the power users throw a f
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by TX81Z 3y ago
Vine shutting down may be one of the top ten stupid decisions in business history.
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by TX81Z 3y ago
Some of the channels are also super high production values. B1M comes to mind.
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by TX81Z 3y ago
Yes, but you can flush billions down the drain and if you get a nice title along the way it doesn’t matter in Silicon Valley. A VP who oversaw a billion being set on fire will still be hired as a VP at the next company as long as that money
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by TX81Z 3y ago
That’s what I was referring to. What I’d call “top talent” is rarely the same as “top of the org”.
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by TX81Z 3y ago
Yup, I get more value than Netflix at the same price. Premium is a good product. I can’t stand YouTube without it.
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by TX81Z 3y ago
Or knew how to make money in the first place.
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by TX81Z 3y ago
Ok, even in that scenario if you’re this many years in, have this many users, this many daily posts, and your underlying tech is a CRUD app, it’s not because you have a free API. It’s because you royally screwed up many, many, many things.
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by TX81Z 3y ago
Can confirm. The people at the top in tech are a) primarily driven by personal advancement, b) focus all their attention on getting a promotion (or higher share price), c) if user welfare and personal ambition are in conflict personal ambit
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by TX81Z 3y ago
It’s like he’s implying it’s the third party apps fault he can’t make money on a user base that big with that much engagement. Which is an…odd take.

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