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[-] jeffw@lemmy.world 142 points 8 months ago

But Huffman, who cofounded Reddit back in 2005, also boasted that Reddit is different because it is “free from the airbrushing and filters of social media” and criticized what he sees as over-the-top meddling in online discussion.

lol

[-] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 130 points 8 months ago
[-] db2@lemmy.world 54 points 8 months ago

Silence, landed gentry!

[-] recursive_recursion@programming.dev 17 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

yeeesh

if I ever do this I hope I get iced on the spot as it means that there's a level of integrity that can be verified across all federated instances

[-] SomeGuy69@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

Maybe Huffman was getting nostalgic and started reminiscing about his jailbait subreddit, that was online for so many years on his beloved Reddit.

[-] AlecSadler@sh.itjust.works 17 points 8 months ago

I hate him so much.

[-] ohlaph@lemmy.world 15 points 8 months ago

He's quite delusional.

[-] Wanderer@lemm.ee 12 points 8 months ago

World news is a shower of shit.

Might as well be the IDF propaganda devision at this point.

[-] Maven@lemmy.sdf.org 15 points 8 months ago

Before I quit, it was a pretty open secret that r/worldnews was a shithole, and the place to get news was r/anime_titties

I don't know if they've gone under too by now, though

[-] dalekcaan@lemm.ee 3 points 8 months ago

But what r/worldnews lacked in credible news, it made up for in anime tiddies

[-] chaosppe@lemmy.world 95 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Wild. I wonder how bad reddit will be in a few years. If you think it's bad now, It's not even publicly traded yet, and we've all seen how money grubbing being a publicly traded company can become. "Make line go up no matter what" 👀

[-] Fisk400@feddit.nu 70 points 8 months ago

NSFW is going to get banned within a year or two. It would be irresponsible towards the share holders not to, because porn lowers advertising value.

[-] slumlordthanatos@lemmy.world 48 points 8 months ago

old.reddit is probably going to be on the chopping block, too. I only go for niche communities these days, but I'm gone for good once old.reddit is gone.

[-] topinambour_rex@lemmy.world 13 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

That's the plan. They announced it laqt year as the same time the api stopped to be free.

[-] BigMikeInAustin@lemmy.world 14 points 8 months ago

If they keep the porn, Texas Governor Abbott will block Reddit from Texas. Well, losing the MAGAts might help Reddit get better.

[-] pastermil@sh.itjust.works 4 points 8 months ago

It won't help with their bottom line tho

[-] BigMikeInAustin@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

Reddit can just ask Russia to create more bot accounts.

[-] Untitled4774@sh.itjust.works 11 points 8 months ago

Which is one of the only good reasons to still go to the site

[-] muntedcrocodile@lemmy.world 58 points 8 months ago

I really want to see it crash i hope all of wallstreetbets shorts them into next year.

[-] simplejack@lemmy.world 12 points 8 months ago

Anyone can buy stock, but to short you need to get approved for a margin account and you need to put up some collateral. Those are two big barriers that are going to block many Redditors in WSB from shorting.

[-] bradorsomething@ttrpg.network 15 points 8 months ago

Puts are a poor man’s short. Sold calls are a rich man’s short. I expect a lot of sold calls.

[-] muntedcrocodile@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago

Ahh didnt know i dont play the market but id love to see reddit get some well deserved karma

[-] z3rOR0ne@lemmy.ml 3 points 8 months ago

This. Options are the way.

[-] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

You can just buy a put.

There's no infinite loss risk either, the amount risked is determined up front.

Riskier in the sense it can expire worthless, you can't hold it forever.

[-] yuki2501@lemmy.world 27 points 8 months ago

The fact that we're reading and commenting about it on Lemmy is satisfying, despite the sadness of the situation. It's like watching the city burn after you moved away and saying "wow, I guess I really took the right choice by leaving."

[-] dhork@lemmy.world 23 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

When does it actually go public, anyway? I want to wait a week and pick some up after the inevitable crash

Nvm, Google is my friend, trading starts Thursday

[-] superduperenigma@lemmy.world 16 points 8 months ago

Just buy some puts early on. You do not want to pick up shares just to be stuck holding those bags for an indefinite period of time.

[-] dhork@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

Well, yeah, but I didn't think they opened up options right away on new stocks

[-] bradorsomething@ttrpg.network 3 points 8 months ago

Usually a week or two delay.

[-] ganksy@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

A week might not be the bottom

[-] phdepressed@sh.itjust.works 3 points 8 months ago

Hope not, if it goes down low enough maybe someone reasonable can buy it out.

[-] BigMikeInAustin@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

If WallStreetBets owns WallStreetBets, do we get a singularity?

Diamond hands!

[-] Archer@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

WSB will short WSB. They know themselves

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