Every time you hear the Reddit CEO talking about how they need to become profitable, remember they raised $250m and then spent the last couple years building this: https://nft.reddit.com
@robotdeathsquad I've been using reddit for the last 10 years and I never knew that was a thing... Good catch. That ceo really is ridiculously incompetent
@robotdeathsquad I was a subreddit mod there a long time ago. unpaid volunteer work. Reddit has been abusing millions for over a decade both by benefitting from the labor of unpaid volunteers and unpaid content creators. early on I loved Reddit. but I grew to hate it and quit it totally
@synlogic@robotdeathsquad Yes, when you think about it what does reddit actually do for the community beyond maintain servers? The unpaid moderator bit is wild.
@kelce@synlogic@robotdeathsquad
That's not fair. They also have a shitty app that they maintain and are going to force everyone to use despite the fact that they didn't have to pay a dime for other people to develop much, much better apps.
@robotdeathsquad the recent nft / crypto venture capital frenzy reminds me of the late 90s dot com craziness. Tech venture is so trend / pack oriented.
@mangotable It just really puts their current bullshit in context. Why was NFT avatars ever the plan? And if you're going to invest all that $$ into it, and have it not work, shouldn't you take some responsibility for that not turn around and blame a guy that makes $500k/yr on an iOS app because it's better than yours?
@glennsills@robotdeathsquad
Considering the first result to almost any google inquiry for how to fix some problem is a reddit link.... yeah... unfortunately for now we kinda need reddit.
@duckles77@robotdeathsquad You know I've been hearing that a lot lately and I don't think I believe it. I google a lot and while I occasionally see reddit in the search result it is seldom at the top (although it occasionally is). This seems a bit like salesmanship from Reddit to me.
@robotdeathsquad I never understood it when it launched. Seemed like a dumb thing that no one outside of the crypto bros wanted. What a waste of effort.
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