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Stumbled on this while researching tablet PCs and clicking on a Reddit "post" from Google results. I take no pride in any part of that sentence.
Obviously borrowed from Cyanide and Happiness. But I can't help but picture a Reddit user's expression the moment someone tries having an actual discussion on that platform.
Revanced & being a mod doesn't seem to matter anymore. I can still view the front page but no comments, profile, individual subreddits, etcetera now. This is the same for me on both Sync and Boost. Surely, I can't be the only one. Combined with their recent shenanigans with old.reddit.com I'm finally feeling more ready to just let it go finally because there is no freaking way I'm going to use new *or* their crummy ad_riddled app.
Recently on Reddit there are memes after memes on election. Specifically, rather pro-Israel "No vote for Biden is vote for Trump!" If you open, you see a bunch of same-minded people complaining about anti-Bibi protestors. It's so everywhere I can't see Reddit without seeing such posts. I can like threadiverse better just for this. I don't have to see the same tiring meme everywhere thanks to having no political campaigning and no forced promotion of posts into my feed.
It now redirects you to the new site login page. There's no way to sign up with out an email anymore(?) It was only possible on the old site.
this user seems to be a mix of a chatgpt bot and a real person. Notice how soo many of their posts are these long overly formal\affectionate replies with a link to specific products. The products are amazon links (probably referal links) and all the amazon links are hidden behind a redirect by using tastechocolate.co.uk with a specific link page per product so they don't get hidden by the auto mod. I'm guessing tastechocolate.co.uk is owned by the bot farm\user? A lot of the links are also to zoopy.com via zoopy.link which are probably also owned by the bot farm\user to generate ad revenue and affiliate\referral money.
So, I deleted everything I'd posted to Reddit almost a year ago now and have been over here in federated space since. But I do occasionally read threads over there when they are posted over here, just to see what a larger number of commenters are saying on specific topics (or just to remind myself on how disturbing a lot of the Reddit community has gotten over time). Anyways, to the point. I saw this thread on /r/news had been removed for violating the politics rule: [https://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/1c7fhna/us\_stops\_un\_from\_recognizing\_a\_palestinian\_state/](https://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/1c7fhna/us_stops_un_from_recognizing_a_palestinian_state/) I decided to send the following message to the /r/news mod team with the Message the Mods button: > > > "Why was this thread labeled as politics and removed? Thread: [https://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/1c7fhna/us\_stops\_un\_from\_recognizing\_a\_palestinian\_state/](https://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/1c7fhna/us_stops_un_from_recognizing_a_palestinian_state/) > > > > > Meanwhile, there are multiple threads about Trump, threads about Palestinian protests, and a thread about Florida allowing chaplains in schools. > > > > > What exactly is the definition of politics that the mod team is using to claim the former is disallowed due to politics, but not many of the other front page political topic threads? > > > > > For that matter, why does a US action in the UN count as overly political in the first place?" > > Not sure what I expected, but then a few minutes ago: > > > "You have been temporarily muted from r/news. You will not be able to message the moderators of r/news for 28 days." > > So yeah. Was my message out of line? Aggressive in some manner? I wasn't trying to troll or anything like that.
www.theverge.com
Ahead of its IPO, Reddit announced a set of tools for businesses that want to be more active on the platform — including the ability to see which subreddits are mentioning a brand. For businesses, Reddit says it’s a way to “establish and grow a meaningful organic presence on Reddit.” In other words: the brands are coming. https://www.redditinc.com/blog/introducing-the-new-toolkit-for-business-growth-reddit-pro-is-here
> Reddit Inc.'s stock-trading enthusiasts made it a household name by backing companies that Wall Street wouldn't. For Reddit's own initial public offering, a group of them are about to flip the script. > In the days after the social-media company filed for an IPO, thousands of members of the WallStreetBets forum — which boasts around 15 million users and helped popularize meme stocks like GameStop Corp. — voted to boost a forum post about shorting the company, a sharp reversal of their typically bullish ways. Their avowed reasons varied from the company's lack of profitability to competitive concerns, and mostly centered on spite. (paywalled on Bloomberg website)
detailed.com
>"I didn’t notice a single new or low-post-count forum" > >"There Appears to Be No Benefit if a Forum is Hosted on a Subdomain or Which Software It Uses" The author lists many reasons why reddit should not be at the top of search results. I listed even more reasons here: [Reddit is dangerous. The admins are out of control. Humanity needs a viable alternative.](https://maximiliankohler.blogspot.com/2023/06/reddit-is-dangerous-humanity-needs-an-alternative.html)
time.com
Any pointers on how to report them? As requested, I'm posting the full text of the email into this post body. I hope it's screen reader friendly: u/USERNAME, tl;dr – you’re invited to a special program that lets redditors purchase stock at the same price as institutional investors when we IPO. Details about eligibility and next steps follow. This (long, dense) email has all the info we can provide due to legal restrictions. As you may have heard, Reddit has taken steps toward becoming a publicly traded company with the initial public filing of our registration statement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on February 22, 2024. Yes, it’s happening. And because you have helped make Reddit what it is today, you now have the opportunity to become Reddit owners at the same price as institutional investors. We’re offering a Directed Share Program (“DSP”) that invites eligible users and moderators who have contributed to Reddit to participate in our initial public offering (“IPO”). (Including you!) Program Requirements While being selected to pre-register is the first step, there are certain legal and regulatory requirements to participate in the DSP that are outside of Reddit’s control. Bear with us here… To be eligible for the DSP, you must: • Be a current U.S. resident; o You will be asked to provide the DSP Administrator a valid social security or permanent resident number, along with other personal information. Reddit will not have access to this data. o Please note that U.S. residents using a VPN may face application limitations if the VPN locates them in certain non-U.S. jurisdictions. • Be at least 18 years old; • Provide your full legal name and an email address; • Not be a current or former Reddit employee (FTE). When the DSP launches (a few weeks after pre-registration ends), individuals who have been confirmed for the program will be contacted by our external DSP Administrator. You will then be asked to provide additional information securely to the DSP Administrator to confirm your eligibility. How to pre-register The number of people who can participate in the DSP is limited; we will offer this opportunity to as many redditors as we are able to accommodate. If capacity is reached before the deadline, you will be added to the waitlist. Based on demand, we may also limit the number of shares available. If you are interested in being part of Reddit’s DSP, please go to https://reddit.com/dsp on desktop to complete the pre-registration form. If you are one of the confirmed participants, we will follow up with an email with more details in the coming weeks. You can also refer to the Frequently Asked Questions for more information. Due to regulatory restrictions (yeah… we know…) we are not able to respond to further inquiries or questions. Pre-registering does not guarantee that you will be invited or able to participate in the DSP; it also does not obligate you to purchase shares. As with any investment opportunity, you should make an individual decision based on your own personal circumstances and risk tolerance. Therefore, we urge you to review the preliminary prospectus, when available, before deciding whether to invest in Reddit. The deadline for pre-registering for the DSP is March 5, 2024. If capacity is reached before the deadline, you will be added to the waitlist. What happens next? While there won’t be a confirmation email immediately after you pre-register, everyone who pre-registers will receive an email in the coming weeks from “noreply@redditmail.com”, telling them whether they can proceed with the next steps for the DSP. This is an automated message (beep, boop, beep) and does not receive replies. Please refer to the FAQ for more information. Per our lawyercats, we are not able to respond to further inquiries or questions. Prospectus and Important Disclosures The offering will be made only by means of a prospectus. When available, a copy of the preliminary prospectus related to the offering may be obtained from: Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC, Prospectus Department, 180 Varick Street, New York, New York 10014, or email: prospectus@morganstanley.com; Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC, Attention: Prospectus Department, 200 West Street, New York, New York 10282, telephone: 1-866-471-2526, facsimile: 212-902-9316, or email: prospectus-ny@ny.email.gs.com; J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, Attention:c/o Broadridge Financial Solutions, 1155 Long Island Avenue, Edgewood, New York 11717, telephone: 1-866-803-9204, or email: prospectus-eq_fi@jpmorgan.com; and BofA Securities, Inc., NC1-022-02-25, 201 North Tryon Street, Charlotte, North Carolina 28255-0001, Attention: Prospectus Department, telephone: 1-800-294-1322, or email: dg.prospectus_requests@bofa.com. A registration statement relating to these securities has been filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission but has not yet become effective. These securities may not be sold nor may offers to buy be accepted prior to the time the registration statement becomes effective. This notification shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy these securities, nor shall there be any sale of these securities in any state or jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation, or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such state or jurisdiction. No offer to buy the securities can be accepted and no part of the purchase price can be received until the registration statement has become effective, and any such offer may be withdrawn or revoked, without obligation or commitment of any kind, at any time prior to the notice of its acceptance given after the effective date. An indication of interest in response to this notification will involve no obligation or commitment of any kind. You are receiving this email because a Reddit account, USERNAME, is registered to this email address. 548 Market St., #16093, San Francisco, CA 94104–5401
www.businessinsider.com
> Reddit kind of anticipates this critique in its investor docs, and argues that it didn't really start operating as a serious business until 2018 when it finally started "meaningful monetization efforts" — that is, trying to make money for real. > But that's still six years ago. What has Reddit been doing since then? > One big, obvious answer: It has been hiring a lot of engineers and spending a lot of money on their salaries... > ...What am I missing? I asked Reddit comms for comment but they declined, citing the company's quiet period before the IPO. [Internet Archive capture](https://web.archive.org/web/20240227214533/https://www.businessinsider.com/why-reddit-loses-money-ipo-research-development-revenue-2024-2024-2)
arstechnica.com
www.thedailybeast.com
Sure, spez, tell us again how reddit's just never managed to make a profit ...
www.theguardian.com
Reddit made an initial public offering filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday ahead of its highly-anticipated stock market debut. The social network plans to trade on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol “RDDT.” Its listing – expected in March – would be the largest IPO by a social media company since Pinterest went public in 2019. How social media’s biggest user protest rocked Reddit The number of shares to be offered and the price range for the proposed offering have not yet been determined, Reddit said in a statement. The IPO filing revealed that Reddit sustained $90.8m in losses in 2023, as its revenue grew by roughly 21%. The business estimated that its US average revenue per user or ARPU, was $3.42 for the last quarter of 2023 – a decrease of 2% year over year...
Hello, my name is loaExMachina and I'm a redditor. Jk, I've almost completely stopped browsing reddit, tho so far I hadn't committed to deleting my account, because all I've written was of such high quality that it'd be the worst loss of wisdom since the library of Alexandria burnt down. But now that I saw the deal they cut to train the Google AI on their content, I'm thinking "better erase it than let it fall in the hands of evil." I recall seing on reddit many comments replaced by something about moving to lemmy and how much better it was, apparently some software had been used to bulk-edit all of the accounts content into this. Is it possible to learn that power ?
github.com
No API required. Kinda slow, but just leave it running overnight if you have a lot. Make sure you run it from https://old.reddit.com/u/me/overview
www.theverge.com
However, I will keep you guys around, for now ...
[...] a dearth of profit this late into its existence portends the lack of a real business model, suggesting it’s still not ready for public company life.
arstechnica.com
Interestingly, Narwhal remained open ahead of Narwhal 2's release without users having to pay anything. I asked Harrison in June how that was possible, but he said he couldn't explain due to a non-disclosure agreement (NDA) with Reddit. I asked again for this story, and Harrison said he couldn't provide full details but noted, "Reddit was willing to work with me so that I could transition the app to subscriptions in a reasonable timeframe, especially considering it's not my full-time job."
A group of scammers is retaliating against me for exposing them and the Reddit admins and legal department completely ignore it. I consulted with lawyers who told me that my only option is to spend tens of thousands of dollars trying to pursue each individual reddit account that's doing it.
web.archive.org
*Though Reddit's leadership claims to be 'leaning into its humanity,' it seems the company is more committed to leaving humanity in the dark.* > Reddit promised that it would maintain a free-tier API, but researchers and moderators repeatedly stressed that the new access was too limited and would cut off many tools, projects, and archives that their work depended on. Finally, Reddit’s olive branch came in the form of an online application for moderators and researchers to request increased access to the API and (for moderators only) access to Reddit archives that the updates took offline. > The mistake seemed to have taught Huffman that ignoring the needs of communities that the platform had long relied on posed a greater risk than benefit to the profitability of the company in the long run. Yet six months later, many of us working in public interest research fields have heard nothing back from Reddit in response to our applications, and key archives of historical data remain inaccessible to researchers.