• @bricks
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    861 year ago

    If I was a VC, I would want a glut of ad-sensitive, lowest common denominator users. Think your Aunt on Facebook, or your sister on VSCO, or your young nephew on TikTok. I don’t think those people are necessarily attracted to the overall community attitude(s) currently on Reddit.

    I would never call the ex-Hacker News/Digg Redditors smart. But.

    Those users do have certain proclivities that make them EXTREMELY unattractive to investment dollars. Strong interest in anti-mainstream topics, including the 3Ps (Privacy, Piracy, and Pornography) doth not good ROI make. This exodus of users and elimination of features, outside looking in, seems like a misstep. I’d be skeptical.

    • @bisq
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      221 year ago

      That 3P hits too hard haha

    • @[email protected]
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      211 year ago

      Very true. It seems like a solid plan to flush the current users and replace with more gullible ones.

      • kingthrillgore
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        11 year ago

        With the collapse of social media, there’s not going to be many new users to claim.