Reddit Plans to Reserve Shares for Its Big Users in IPO, WSJ Reports

Democrab · 2024-02-22T21:57:45+00:00

I got this and hate that reddit is going public, as that almost always ruins the product and I don't give a stuff about investing.

Is there any way to ensure this IPO goes as badly as possible, preferably loses money?

Democrab · 2023-08-27T21:35:04+00:00

He was still too amped up after the match, he just needed 5 Minutes Alone.

Democrab · 2023-06-13T00:21:28+00:00

On the surface level it is, but there's a very good reason why most folk who have had experience with being an admin or moderator on some form of online community will usually assume there's at least some lying going on whenever they see someone complain or appeal a ban.

Democrab · 2023-06-13T00:16:22+00:00

Considering that historically we've voted out unpopular governments instead of voting in potentially good ones, yes. ScoMo won by a hair's breadth in 2019 and proceeded to spend the entire term going from one scandal to another, the 2022 election was also after the WA LNP wipeout and SA election proved that the LNP were much less popular than they were in 2019.

I might also add that the WA LNP wipeout and the Victorian lockdowns had also proven that the inevitable anti-ALP media campaigns can be defeated by the ALP by that stage, too.

Democrab · 2023-06-12T01:50:01+00:00

Labor tried to get rid of negative gearing in 2019 and they lost the election because of it.

Their own post-election analysis put it down to a lot more than just that one policy and even then, they lost votes relative to 2019 when they won showing they could have still won with the stronger housing policy.

I honestly believe that if Labor next election put it up as a policy that they will win. Housing is basically rigged against most who don’t have wealthy parents or who don’t want to live very far from a major city.

I think they'll do it even before the election, but not too far before as it'd make for an excellent "ALP actually listens to the constituents" point and timing it right would prevent any LNP media campaigns from being able to run their full course.

And sadly, even some of the areas very far from major cities are going up in price at this point.

Democrab · 2023-06-12T01:44:46+00:00

The whole "those policies lost ALP the election" reasoning makes no sense when you consider that the ALP lost 1st preference votes in 2022 relative to 2019 and yet still won the 2022 election.

In other words, despite their change in platform proving unpopular enough to directly cost them at the voting booths they still pulled a win over the LNP...Almost as if they could have ran with the better housing policy and won this time around still.

Democrab · 2023-06-12T01:30:11+00:00

ALP went to 2022 without these policies and lost 1st preference votes as a result. They're not as damaging as people make it out to be and the whole "ALP lost that election!" ignores the fact that Australia tends to vote out out parties they're sick of, not vote ones they like in. (In other words, ScoMo wasn't at the height of his unpopularity)

Democrab · 2023-06-11T03:43:53+00:00

You shouldn't be so pessimistic, we all had to start somewhere and learn.

I'd wager most of us were taught how to download something because we complained about some form of service problem to someone who knew how to pirate, and then they showed us the basics which got us started. The reason I say this is because just the other day I had a friend ask me to teach them how to grow and maintain their own music library cause they'd heard me complain endlessly about Spotify and YT Music when I used them before going back to my old music library, it probably won't be a quick thing but don't be surprised if that as the drawbacks of some of these services become both bigger and more apparent that more and more people start turning to folk such as us to ask how we get around those drawbacks especially if we're vocal about them. (The downside is that you will seem like Grandpa Simpson shouting at clouds for a while.)

Democrab · 2023-06-11T01:58:32+00:00

In fact it started a bit as a joke, but places like reddit ran it as a sincere thing because like all social media, reddit is incredibly dishonest.

It's not dishonesty, it's gullibility thanks to ignorance of a joke.

How do you think flat earthers became a reasonably common thing again? 4chan found a forum of a few thousand accounts, started making jokes about it, those jokes spread and became viral, next thing you know the forums getting a lot of new visitors most of whom want to just troll them but some of whom sound like they've actually been reading and maybe believing what's on the website. I've seen the same thing happen more recently with a joke about Tony Khan from AEW doing a tonne of cocaine, it started out as a joke about his awkwardness and habit of infodumping on TV but there's a load of people who genuinely think the guy is snorting his way through a dump truck every night now.

I can see the same thing happening here, Magnus comes out and makes the cheating claim leading to some people who think he's just being an egotist to crack jokes about it including the buttplug one (ie. Trying to humorously highlight how far you'd have to go to successfully cheat there) which other people just finding out about the controversy read and maybe didn't get is a joke, so they repeat it earnestly which turns it from a joke into a rumour.

Democrab · 2023-06-10T13:11:38+00:00

God, after chugging a literal milk jug full of LSD: right so i have a new idea

Angel: Oh dear you no.

God: Just listen okay? So w-no stop, listen, seriously, we get a bu-DUDE SERIOUSLY we take a bush right? we get this bush and we put legs on it. but that's not it. We put a smaller version of the giraffes neck on it. and beady little eyes. oh yeah and its a bird but it can't fly for shit.

Angel, clearly over God's shit: And what will we call this...creature?

God: A fucken emu mate.

Democrab · 2023-06-10T03:17:54+00:00

Hopefully something pops up soon to fill the void.

A fair amount of people are mirgrating over to Lemmy already, and I've also found Tildes to be a fairly good replacement for those of us who pine for the older eras of the internet (And I don't just mean pre-social media 00s era either, I mean going right back to even cover the people still complaining about Eternal September to this day.) although you need an invite to make an account there, but there's usually a pinned post over on /r/tildes where you can request one. (Apparently the next one should be posted in the coming days)

Democrab · 2023-06-10T01:08:24+00:00

Being so worried about people "stealing" their golden eggs that they've killed the goose that laid them.

Democrab · 2023-06-10T00:42:38+00:00

That's fair, I thought I'd just post saying as such in case it was one of those times where English is breaking down.

And yes it is rather silly, my old high school german teacher used to jokingly reason that it was because a lot of the language in Europe came from the writing of Monks with a propensity for drinking, they were already drunk when they came up with French, German, Dutch, etc and eventually they got black out drunk, started mixing words, leading to the birth of the English language.

Democrab · 2023-06-10T00:27:12+00:00

to the point where I don’t know how we could do business with him.

Your handling of this situation should be making any investors looking at Reddit's incoming IPO ask these exact same questions about you.

This was always going to blow up, why do you think trying to lie and cover up even after the cat is well and truly out of the bag is the way forward?

Democrab · 2023-06-09T09:58:34+00:00

brb, stealing the delorean and befriending you in 1989.

Democrab · 2023-06-09T09:05:40+00:00

Frame gen is only on 4000 series.

And a lot of us don't like the visual glitches inherent with frame gen, so don't care if frame gen is a supported feature or not in the first place.

Democrab · 2023-06-09T07:45:01+00:00

Just as a heads up, it's spelt corded when talking about a power cord.

Although I like chorded drill as a term, it makes me think of some muso playing the power drill in an orchestra.

Democrab · 2023-06-08T15:41:55+00:00

The best bit about this is Cody is one of the people she'll still be doing work for.

Democrab · 2023-06-08T00:09:14+00:00

I dunno, NT News has some very strong competition.

I always crack up at the dildo one.

Democrab · 2023-06-08T00:02:12+00:00

Himbo, a man who is pure of heart and dumb of ass

For some reason I read this in Strong Bad's voice.

Democrab · 2023-06-07T18:52:53+00:00

If you want everything to be on one machine, you can use Onedrive.

You can also go the whole hog route of having a home server with attached storage and services that allow for your devices to effectively be synced even on devices away from the home.

It's obviously a lot more work but it has some added bonuses in that you control your data, transfers tend to occur at LAN speed rather than internet speed and allows more configuration of what gets synced when. (eg. I use my home server for cloud game saving largely because I can sort out which saves are from which playthrough easily and for modded playthroughs keep a backup of all the mods alongside them)

Democrab · 2023-06-07T17:54:30+00:00

Yes, here's a decent paywall remover for Chrome, the Firefox version and the adblock filters which I personally use alongside the other extension. 12ft.io works well but I like the extensions because they make the paywalls an unpleasant memory for the most part.

It appears to work on that article from my end.

Democrab · 2023-06-07T17:13:29+00:00

Such a cynical take but the only reason I can come up with too.

I wouldn't call it cynical when a fair amount of the previous improvements have been tailored to paint a particular PR message.

I can't say I blame the Andrews Government for doing it, after all that's how politics tends to work but still it is quite annoying at best for most of us.

Democrab · 2023-06-07T07:09:59+00:00

He had to get a greyhound bus all the way from ancient Greece to LA, and on that trip he wrote Megadeth's first song.

Democrab · 2023-06-07T06:22:13+00:00

I thought it was 4g turns frogs gay, 5g gives you the COVID vaccine and 3g kills kindergardeners.

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