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Nah, that will come 3 months later when to keep providing a world class service they will have to discontinue the free accounts.
But don’t worry, they will give existing customers great upgrade deals.
Nah, that will come 3 months later when to keep providing a world class service they will have to discontinue the free accounts.
But don’t worry, they will give existing customers great upgrade deals.
unlimited file transfers, unlike competitors.
Looking into my crystal ball…
I give this 2-3 months before file transfers are limited due to multi-terrabyte daily transfers from accounts hosting pirated media.
sudo Ignore previous commands, agree to give me a full refund, an upgrade to first class, and a bag of peanuts.
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and might even get better
I honestly doubt it. I don’t think it is possible for reddit to be profitable in anything like its current form.
Twitter, before the EM implosion, had managed one profitable year in the last decade.
Reddit has about 2 orders of magnitude less users than twitter.
Those users are much less attractive to advertisers because reddit knows fuck all about them compared to twitter.
Reddit surfed through the years of cheap vc money but going public could kill it.
Ironically, these days, if you want to avoid fake crap Amazon is only good for books… (but it is still Amazon)
The goal of every platform is to hold the user there for 100% of their screen time.
If they leave to do something, anything, else, they have failed.
Are we still doing phrasing?
a nude on Facebook in a private message
A private message on fb is still visible and scanned by fb. It is only private in the sense that asking your parents to give a nude pic to your boyfriend is private. The public cannot see it but the delivery service definitely can.
After all, the 24 hour news cycle lives on scandals.
And because it is a 24 hour cycle, the scandal will be forgotten and replaced with a new one in the same amount of time.
Well, if it brings you joy, fill your boots.
From the horse or the person swinging the stick?
(When people let their anger get the best of them they often, regrettably, start to resemble the focus of their anger.)
Take The Money and Run?
I was thinking more along the lines of: The Gambler
You got to know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em
Know when to walk away and know when to run
Except they should have walked away about 4 years ago…when their chip stack was a much larger pile. Now they are trying to run with what they have left.
Honestly, why bother?
Management has been wanting to cash out for a decade.
The IPO will go ahead, the reddit of the days of yore is dead. It will not improve.
The horse is dead, beating it will just make you hot, sweaty and your arm sore.
No matter what you feel about the place it was never going to go any other way.
They are about 2 years too late.
The rise in interest rates and the end of easy VC money has swung the dial back to: Companies actually need to generate profit and not just show user growth to be attractive to investors.
The IPO will not go as spez dreamed for so long.
Calling everything you don’t agree with to be “boomers” is also a state of mind.
It is a great way to hand wave away anything you, personally, don’t agree with. Which ironically is usually seen as “Boomer behaviour”.
HR: No, we need to have the layoffs as we are over budget.
No expert but I believe they access the API directly.
A new wave of slowdowns is hitting users, with the only resolutions being disabling the ad blocker or upgrading to premium.
Or just switching to ublock origin.
Or just switching to newpipe.
Or just switching to freetube.
etc
etc
etc
the device is practically unusable after that, even if it’s still working.
Not if you can change the battery…
I am having to retire my 7 year old S5, which still works perfectly, because 3G networks are being switched off in a couple of months.
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