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I'd phrase it as "Reddit, the product" is fine.

"Reddit, the investors who bought the product" are in a difficult spot. And certainly haven't shown an overabundance of creativity in monetization approaches.

Suffice to say, you probably don't deserve a "front page of the Internet" tagline if your first display is a redirect request to your app.

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Reddit is a potential B Corp or non profit masquerading as a VC backed tech startup with exit or ad revenue potential. Bag holders get tired eventually.

Reddit is building the best content moderation tools for humans - by blundering in every possible direction, often in direct opposition to potential progress.

Mod tools and the data on what works is the untapped resource.

Every other major data or tool set for moderation is behind an NDA.

This was my take at one point, but a lot of actions made it clear that's no longer the case, and it's now more of a social media site/app that also has porn.

Maybe more like porn ads, its like all attention seeking to direct people to only fans.

What bothers me about OF is that it has turned authentic communities into billboards. "Why are you entitled to free porn?" OFs defenders will ask as they completely miss the point of the communities they have hijacked.

As the saying goes: "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it."

Owning reddit allows ypu to own public opinion through censorship,thats a pretty important bit of value and im sure tencent would agree

Reddit moderation is not unlike what China does only it's not considered onerous because it's self-censorhip.

Hate to break it to ya but the court of public opinion is strongly held by other platforms, most notably Twitter.

reddit regularly gets mocked by every other corner of the internet

Hate to break to you but, every corner of the internet mocks every other corner of the internet. Even HN is heavily mocked on other sites.

I am curious if you have examples. What is hn or the hn community mocked for?

https://www.reddit.com/r/ShitHNSays/

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