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[–] [email protected] 140 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 129 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 year ago

Silence, landed gentry!

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

World news is a shower of shit.

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

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

I hate him so much.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

He's quite delusional.

[–] [email protected] 93 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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" 👀

[–] [email protected] 69 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It won't help with their bottom line tho

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Reddit can just ask Russia to create more bot accounts.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 57 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

This. Options are the way.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year 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."

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Usually a week or two delay.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A week might not be the bottom

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If WallStreetBets owns WallStreetBets, do we get a singularity?

Diamond hands!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

WSB will short WSB. They know themselves