RIP Aaron indeed. May his fighting spirit be the anchor point for any community that's succeeding Reddit.

Amen.

If you really want to sabotage, just upload lots of videos to subreddits that you can't advertise on.

Hmmm, let's see.

• Failing company rooted in a more traditional framework they're trying to break out of

• Said company has no idea what they're doing and keep doing ridiculous things to "break out of" traditional framework

• Keeps doing things no user/customer asked for

• Said company has no real effective long-term game-plan and keeps changing tack because of bad previous choices

• There's a good chance the company could go completely bust because of lack of good business plan and solid leadership

Redditors: Reddit is the new GameStop!! DRS!! MOASS!!!

i.e. Have a backup account on a small instance ready for when the big ones get ddos'd

Why should the IPO change anything at this point? It's not like it'll have any immediate effects on the website.

And Huffman’s programming skills weren’t even that great because they quickly brought in Aaron Schwartz to make it all work, yet they always conveniently leave him off of the founders’ list.

Time to buy shorts. Or puts. Or kangaroos. Whatever.

I don't know a fucking thing about stonks.

Aaron Swartz actually didn’t found Reddit. He built a similar company that wasn’t gaining traction, and as both of them were under y-comb and Reddit secretly seeded fake accounts, Swartz and y-comb decided to merge into Reddit. Swartz was sort of their first and hardworking employee instead of a co-founder.

I've had the impression for a long time that Reddit could stand to lose a large part of its users in order to be more profitiable. The nerds getting into long winded "ackchually" "debates" are making the site worse for the meme scrollers and they are also not the type to click on ads. They're not trying to attract more users, they want to maximise revenue from the existing pool. I don't think it's a coincidence Reddit has been slowly moving away from "discussion board" and towards image and short video (like the other three big platforms) because that's where the money's at.

My prediction is that shortly after the IPO we'll see .old go away, and a further sterilizing of subreddits ability to forge unique identities. The only question I have is how do they expect to attract sufficient moderators, buuuut they haven't had trouble after the API debacle so maybe there are more people willing to provide free labor than I assume!

If Facebook hasn't had a mas exodus, neither will Reddit.

Facebooks death is slow and ongoing, and I'm pretty sure Reddit's will be too.

Yes. Best thing we can do is be ready (from a tech perspective) and welcoming (from a human perspective). They'll come or they won't.

Compared to summer, Lemmy now has thousands more users, hundreds of active communities (no where near Reddit yet on niche subjects), actual made-on-lemmy content in a bunch of places, and a bunch of apps that mostly have the bugs worked out. It's probably fair more appealing now to join than it was in summer.

We still have roadblocks: general confusion about federation (the email analogy seems to be working best), difficulty properly explaining how to sign up, a harder time finding communities, and it's impossible to migrate between instances without starting fresh.

If you're serious, just remember the old saying "Markets can remain irrational a lot longer than you or I can remain solvent"