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.

  • Lvxferre@lemmy.mlM
    751·
    11 months ago

    I feel like Greedy Pigboy and Reddit Inc. as a whole deserve to be punished, for all that “my precious data! No, it is not the users’, IT IS MINE! MY PRECIOUS!” fiasco. Enshittification will happen either way.

    • Cyborganism
      41·
      11 months ago

      Exactly. Reddit has been building this huge knowledge base for well over a decade. Built by the users themselves. He knows what he’s got.

      I think I’ll go ahead and log back in and delete all my old posts and comments. Fuck him.

      • Nythos@sh.itjust.works
        19·
        11 months ago

        I deleted all my comments barring one which was a reply to Spez himself calling him a spineless coward after lying about the Apollo dev.

        • leftzero@lemmy.world
          4·
          11 months ago

          I editted all my comments, replacing whatever the text was for a message telling that greedy little pigboy to go fuck himself, and to train his AI on that. Every single one that I could find, because Reddit history sucks as much as its search.

      • jarfil@beehaw.org
        1·
        11 months ago

        He knows what he’s got.

        No he doesn’t.

        They unlocked old comment editing some time ago, you can now edit comments even in “archived” posts. If you get a GDPR export, then you can “fix” the content of, let’s say, 30k comments spanning over a decade. There are some helpful tools on GitHub… but you may want to do it before he actually realizes and they lock you out.