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Este perfil es de un servidor federado y podría estar incompleto. Explorar más contenido en la instancia original.

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"We'd like to make it $4 million." -Spez, probably

What is Reddit CEO Steve Huffman doing? (theverge.com) en

One of the weirder phenomena of the low interest rate era in tech was a tendency to see companies primarily as investments. The goal was not to have a functional business, but an exit, often via IPO or acquisition. I have begun to wonder if that explains what Reddit CEO Steve Huffman has been up to lately....

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Big Dwight Schrute vibes.

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It's too late to apologize.

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It's more like the library wants to sell the books you wrote and donated for the children.

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They were unprofitable BEFORE the debacle. Whether this sinks Reddit or not, they are absolutely not too big to fail. They haven't yet figured out how to succeed even.

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Is the title supposed to sound like a Narcotics Anonymous meeting or am I just projecting?

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were addicted

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Oh, baby, I don't even know where to start spending all these!

What was the subreddit that represented to you the best example of downspiral of quality? To me it was /r/dataisbeautiful (kbin.social) en

At first it was all about presenting data in an original looking way. In the end it was about pushing political ideas in your throat using a plain bar graph. It was not about sharing something interesting you found but about taking advantage of a captive audience.

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Maybe /r/malefashionadvice?

I feel like the early days were more, "I'm a normal guy trying to learn how to dress better." I learned a lot and it improved my wardrobe/ability to dress a bit better. But it felt like it became...something else? Like it was overrun by the kind of people who would unironically buy $100 plain white t-shirts--that sort of thing.

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At some point in the last few years, it felt like it had become a caricature of itself. Hard to explain, but it felt like every user was the guy that was going to bring back capes.

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Thus, in the end, the narwhal did indeed bacon at midnight.

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Yes, I'm sure Apollo was great, but I never even knew it existed until this whole fiasco, because I jumped to RIF when it was still "Reddit Is Fun" and never looked back, because it did everything I needed, perfectly.

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That's what they said. 2015. A year or two ago. Same thing.

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"Charles, how the hell are you? You absolutely must tell me how your dissertation is coming along!?"

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Is SlicedLime the new notch?

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Not to be conspiratorial, but this is an aspect I've pondered that hasn't gotten much discussion: given spez's fanboy emulation of Musk, we could see Reddit become a lot more right-wing as those voices are the ones allowed to continue, like-minded mods are put in place, etc...which means those folks gain yet another messaging platform. It's not great.

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That was among the AI prompts used. :)

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