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In unsurprising news, Reddit prepares IPO (www.businessinsider.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Now the social media platform is aiming for an IPO in the first quarter of 2024 with a valuation of $15 billion, and has been in talks with potential investors like Goldman Sachs and and Morgan Stanley, per Bloomberg.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

All other social media platforms are free.

It is just there will be difference between users and customers (those who pays money to promote something or get data on users). And users are not customers.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

I mean, ignoring the balding neonazi dipshit for a moment:

Twitter is more or less showing the path forward. They fucked up on the advertisement side, but it has clearly been demonstrated that there is a strong desire for users to be "power users". Which is more or less what twitter ran on before. The idea that, because you have ten followers, you are just as important as Barack Obama.

Reddit, coupled with Google fucking up their own shit, is rapidly losing the "best place on the internet to find user sourced information" badge. But there is definitely room for a subscription that either boosts user engagement (not sure how that would work) or provides corporate moderators so that individual people can have their own board about their Sonic OC or whatever.

And then it becomes about converting those users into customers.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

But there is definitely room for a subscription that either boosts user engagement (not sure how that would work)

Swap "subscription" for "multiple small transactions" and you have the new gold system. So Reddit is already doing what you (and me, and everyone else) was predicting them to, we just didn't know "how".

It'll likely fail hard though, at least in the long run. For similar reasons as Digg failed.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I've had multiple comments on Reddit that were the first things or among the top results that popped up on Google regarding certain topics/issues/ect. Taking that away from Reddit even though my slice of the results pie was small, still felt so damn good.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I've considered this, but knowing the pain that I had to go through because there was nothing, I'd rather that future developers don't have to suffer through the same.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Remove those from reddit and repost here.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

I remember Reddit being the only place to find out which VLAN I needed to put my PVRs through to work with my personal router. Now it's a struggle to find anything that specific or useful, and it's getting worse.