Reddit's cofounder said that at first the company felt like 'a homework assignment that got out of hand' rather than a business
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Reddit's cofounder Steve Huffman said in its early days he filled up most of the site with content using different accounts until it got more users.

Now the social media platform is aiming for an IPO in the first quarter of 2024 with a valuation of $15 billion, and has been in talks with potential investors like Goldman Sachs and and Morgan Stanley, per Bloomberg.

  • Mongostein@lemmy.ca
    42·
    11 months ago

    Ok there. I finally deleted my account for realsies.

    I keep going back to check out their Marvel discussions, but tell myself not to log in and engage. The community around that is bigger, definitely, but man… so full of dickheads. Thanks for being nicer, Lemmy users.

    • Steamymoomilk@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      271·
      11 months ago

      O SO YOU THINK WERE NICE HUH! WELL YOU HAVE A NICE DAY!!

      YEAH THATS RIGHT I JUST WISHED YOU A NICE DAY, WHAT YOU GONNA DO ABOUT IT >:D

      • Mongostein@lemmy.ca
        192·
        11 months ago

        Don’t get me wrong, fuckface, I can be a dick too. I’d just rather not, so have a pleasant fucking evening your foul smelling philanthropist.

      • strider@feddit.nl
        2·
        11 months ago

        THANK YOU FOR WRITING IN ALL CAPS, I ALWAYS FELT THE UPPERCASE LETTERS DESERVE MORE TIME IN THE SPOTLIGHT SINCE THEY ARE VASTLY UNDERREPRESENTED IN REGULAR FORMS OF TEXT. LET’S KEEP TALKING LIKE THIS!!

    • samus12345@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      11 months ago

      I’m not deleting mine because all that does is remove your name from comments and lock you out of having any control over them in the future. I did a mass delete, which missed a lot of them, so I just manually delete any others I come across.

      • CallumWellsEnglish
        4·
        11 months ago

        I’ve read that some of that problem with the mass delete was that some tools for that were sending requests too fast and reddit supposedly sent back an error message within a “succes” HTML code. Someone did some tweaking of such a tool to make it react correctly to those messages and the mass deletion took 2-3 days when it was rate limited to what reddit would allow. Don’t know if that can help you now.

    • SolOrion@sh.itjust.works
      4·
      11 months ago

      Same here. I was holding off on properly deleting my account for some of the more niche stuff on Reddit, but at this point… fuck it I’ll still lurk occasionally but I ain’t logging in.

    • Omega_Haxors
      3·
      11 months ago

      My experience with reddit is checking my inbox every now and then and seeing some random nazi posting harassing shit on a 2-month post.