This is one of the more scathing pieces to come out on Ars about Reddit. As the site did not respond to inquiries, all that was available to report on was profoundly negative statements that Advance is unlikely to enjoy seeing.
Gross, no thanks. The whole point of the IPO is so Huffman and all the other schmucks there with piles of equity can finally get their big pay day. Fuck the lot of them.
Yeah the fact they’re deliberately targeting individual investors instead of institutional investors kind of underscores that this is a cashout.
I.P.O. = come hold our bags 💼
Just look at the 5-year chart of Robin(the)hood $HOOD for a succinct preview
They’re literally going to suck as much money off these schmucks as they can: First by selling their ‘content’ to AI, and then by just letting them give them money for shares that will pitfall.
Anyone who buys into this deserves the financial ruin that will so obviously happen to them.
Go ahead and buy. Shares generally tank pretty quick after IPO for companies that don’t actually make anything, the dot bust ensured that. Only time will tell if Reddit shares improve or flounder around not going anywhere. An additional thought - Reddit would do well to do things like get rid of old.reddit, go after ad blockers, and maybe implement a “verified” fee program like Xwitter to boost their stock potential. And also ensure I’ll never return.
This is my thinking as well. IPOs are almost never profitable. If the stock lists at 50 a share, six months later it’ll probably be way closer to 20. And it’s not like Reddit is Facebook, either, if you want to compare it to another publicly traded social media website. Facebook, for all its faults, diversified its corporate enterprise years ago. It’s not just a social media company, but a legitimate tech conglomerate. It now handles payment processing, offer a functional storefront for small businesses, and also owns Oculus, Instagram, and a massive truckload of other shit. What does Reddit own? Well, it owns…Reddit. Its valuation is…maybe 15 billion dollars. What does it have to offer other companies? Well, it has user data. Which is not valueless, but also worth way less than it used to be since every single company you have an online account with collects and sells your data to someone else.
I remember a developer at Reddit telling me on a private Slack that old.reddit is so deeply embedded into the code it would be a removed to remove. I didn’t believe him, because that could easily be 301’d without pulling out old code.
He was let go in the recent layoffs.
I wonder how many bots get offers
I’ll be shorting this
I’d love to see another boycott on the day of the IPO.
I honestly just don’t fucking care about them. This fediverse thing is the real deal, and it’s been kind of peaceful over here avoiding all the toxic shit a regular user of reddit was subjected to. I’m sure it’s on its way here shortly, but for now, enjoy the solitude.
I’ve run into a number of toxic asses on Lemmy, but I chalk it up to Reddit bleedover. I sincerely hope they all stay on the sinking Reddit ship, but inevitably the Fediverse will be inundated with them.
It’s only a matter of time.
I’ve noticed a few more the past couple of months myself, but at some point the floodgates are going to open. And it’s going to suck. But until then, I’m enjoying the fediverse experience. It’s been a great break, reminds me of what reddit used to be like.
Completely agree. I miss Reddit from 2007.
Hopefully lemmy et al. will have mod tools before then
I just want to watch the place burn.
I feel the same way. 15 years of daily use.
Hell hath no fury like a fan scorned.
I ask myself on the latest Reddit news if Aaron is rotating in his grave when he see what Reddit has become
Too bad I deleted my Reddit account of 13 years when found out they’d officially be using it to build AI.
I deleted when they disabled APIs and my app stopped working. It was 13 or 14 years old at the time
Who would want to bankroll spez and Co. after all they did to screw over their users last year (and still continue to)?
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Thousands of the most dedicated Reddit users will have a chance to snag shares when the company goes public in 2024, The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday.
Citing people familiar with the matter, The Journal reported that 75,000 of the “most prolific” Redditors will have an opportunity to buy “an as-yet-undetermined number of shares” before trading starts.
While TechCrunch reported that Snap became a “laughing stock” of the NYSE within two years—“sinking to an all-time low” in December 2018—the company eventually bounced back after finding new ways to attract users.
The company also seemed encouraged by positive trends on its platform, confirming that its decision to go public came after the WallStreetBets forum brought in millions of new users and advertisers, the WSJ reported.
And at a tech conference that year, Reddit CEO Steve Huffman directly said that the company wanted to make it easy for users to become shareholders.
By inviting users to become shareholders, Reddit saw an opportunity to help drive change, Huffman said, at a time when “the market is evolving to be more fair” and accessible to individual traders buying and selling stock through platforms like Robinhood.
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