When can we start shorting the stock? /s
Reddit seeks to launch IPO in March
Submitted 9 months ago by RedditEnjoyer@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/reddit-seeks-launch-ipo-march-sources-2024-01-18/
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Spitzspot@lemmings.world 9 months ago
SpruceBringsteen@lemmy.world 9 months ago
If you really want to sabotage, just upload lots of videos to subreddits that you can’t advertise on.
match@pawb.social 9 months ago
so use Reddit for exclusively porn? way ahead of you
wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 9 months ago
brb time to launch my porn career!
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 months ago
Hmmm, let’s see.
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Failing company rooted in a more traditional framework they’re trying to break out of
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Said company has no idea what they’re doing and keep doing ridiculous things to “break out of” traditional framework
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Keeps doing things no user/customer asked for
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Said company has no real effective long-term game-plan and keeps changing tack
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There’s a good chance the company could go completely bust because of lack of good business plan and solid leadership
Redditors: Reddit is the new GameStop!! DRS!! MOASS!!!
Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 9 months ago
Keeps doing things no user/customer asked for
I'm pretty sure the advertisers - their real customers - asked them to show more ads.
Mechaguana@programming.dev 9 months ago
Dont forget the booooots sooo mannny boooots how the hell are there such low effort bots everywhere on that site
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TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 9 months ago
It takes a few weeks for options to become available, but they will.
If you have a shit ton of money you can buy shorts directly.
LucasWaffyWaf@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Why do ya need tons of money for shorts? I can buy some $15 shorts at Walmart just easily.
CaptainSpaceman@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Prob didnt need the /s
TORFdot0@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Well we have 6 weeks to prepare for the next mass exodus lads and lassies
tourist@lemmy.world 9 months ago
i.e. Have a backup account on a small instance ready for when the big ones get ddos’d
jivandabeast@lemmy.browntown.dev 9 months ago
Do one better, run your own instance
Damage@slrpnk.net 9 months ago
Why should the IPO change anything at this point? It’s not like it’ll have any immediate effects on the website.
TORFdot0@lemmy.world 9 months ago
It’s not the IPO that will cause the exodus. Its the first actions that Reddit takes to appease shareholders that will cause people to leave
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 months ago
Founded in 2005 by web developer Steve Huffman and entrepreneur Alexis Ohanian, Reddit became best known for its niche discussion groups and its users voting “up” or “down” on the content posted by other members.
I appreciate this extremely sly shade at Steve Huffman.
He’s not an entreprenuer because he didn’t do dick between leaving Reddit and coming back to Reddit whereas Ohanian had a few other companies in his back pocket.
I mean, Ohanian sucks, too, but this sentence is just Reuters kicking dirt in Steve Huffman’s smarmy little bitch face and I’m fucking here for it.
Quetzlcoatl@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
Shoutout to all the tip of the spear folks here on lemmy for devaluing reddits ipo. Even if it makes a minimal dent kudos for taking the more difficult road and standing on principle.
match@pawb.social 9 months ago
I’ve tried to go back to Reddit occasionally and it’s garbage, vastly more garbage than I remember last year, from the web design down to the userbase. Whereas I can’t recall a single time I’ve been on lemmy and encountered an [undeclared] bot
Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 9 months ago
The fediverse has better memes anyway
EmergMemeHologram@startrek.website 9 months ago
You too buddy!
ericisshort@lemmy.world 9 months ago
And Huffman’s programming skills weren’t even that great because they quickly brought in Aaron Schwartz to make it all work, yet they always conveniently leave him off of the founders’ list.
Kyrgizion@lemmy.world 9 months ago
This is literally the story of almost every successful tech venture. Even in the company I work for, the CEO was a former salesperson while the dev who started it all was still a dev after 20 years. He singlehandedly created the entire product catalog but no one outside of the company knows his name. The CEO’s name is all over everything, including a “book” he “wrote”.
There’s always a low profile nerd somewhere in the background who is absolutely key to the whole operation but they rarely get cred.
Uglyhead@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Huffman was fucking pissed about how good Alien Blue and Apollo were. He bought and absolutely fucking ruined AB and when he couldn’t buy Apollo (he tried) he crushed it under his boot heel.
aeharding@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Oh good, some breathing room to finish Voyager’s new onboarding flow
jivandabeast@lemmy.browntown.dev 9 months ago
Onboarding flow? Are they making like a fediverse tutorial or something?
aeharding@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I’ve been adding signup support and making login a bit nicer too. Some screenshots
theangryseal@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I’m on voyager now. Thank you. :)
My shortcut is still called wefwef but I know what I’m using haha, I’m just lazy.
I love the app and you made my transition from Apollo so easy. I would probably be wandering around in the dark with no content if you hadn’t pulled this off. So again, thank you.
ripcord@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Voyager?
aeharding@lemmy.world 9 months ago
It’s a Lemmy client. One of many. :)
OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 9 months ago
Founded in 2005 by web developer Steve Huffman and entrepreneur Alexis Ohanian, Reddit became best known for its niche discussion groups and its users voting “up” or “down” on the content posted by other members.
Disgraceful, disgusting, lying scum. Say his name: Aaron Swartz
Aatube@kbin.social 9 months ago
Aaron Swartz actually didn’t found Reddit. He built a similar company that wasn’t gaining traction, and as both of them were under y-comb and Reddit secretly seeded fake accounts, Swartz and y-comb decided to merge into Reddit. Swartz was sort of their first and hardworking employee instead of a co-founder.
IndyRap@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Reddit doesn’t exist without him period full stop. His didn’t get traction and theirs didn’t work.
Not the same thing.
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
Goodness I hope the gamestop nerds find a way to absolutely destroy this. If there is any chance of a scheme working, I will invest.
CosmicTurtle@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Time to buy shorts. Or puts. Or kangaroos. Whatever.
I don’t know a fucking thing about stonks.
androogee@midwest.social 9 months ago
Perfect, you’ll fit right in
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 9 months ago
It will launch, spike up a little that day, then drop pretty hard for a month or so, getting down to about 60% of its launch price, before slowly gaining back up to around 80% of its launch price after several months.
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
It’s winter here. I’m gonna buy pants.
jivandabeast@lemmy.browntown.dev 9 months ago
I had to go and check wsb to see what the chatter was on this. Looks like they share the same sentiments tbh
twinnie@feddit.uk 9 months ago
Seems like a terrible investment, I can’t see what they can possibly do to add value. Everybody who wants to use Reddit is already on it and anything they do to try and milk it will just lose them users.
Corgana@startrek.website 9 months ago
I’ve had the impression for a long time that Reddit could stand to lose a large part of its users in order to be more profitiable. The nerds getting into long winded “ackchually” “debates” are making the site worse for the meme scrollers and they are also not the rype to click on ads. I don’t think it’s a coincidence Reddit has been slowly moving away from “discussion board” and towards image and short video (like the other three big platforms) because that’s where the money’s at.
My prediction is that shortly after the IPO we’ll see .old go away, and a further sterilizing of subreddits ability to forge unique identities. The only question I have is how do they expect to attract sufficient moderators, buuuut they haven’t had trouble after the API debacle so maybe there are more people willing to provide free labor than I assume!
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 months ago
The only question I have is how do they expect to attract sufficient moderators
I mean YouTube comment sections were known for years to be an unmoderated nightmare of just people saying the absolute dumbest shit.
YouTube was and still is the most popular video site.
I think reddit has just stopped caring about the real content of the comments since, like you said, they’ve pretty much pivoted to images and video. Expect the comments section to be further eroded as well, in the name of needing less moderation. In fact, I wouldn’t be surprised to see Reddit do an “AI” push where the “AI” is mostly just replacing moderators with what amounts to a more advanced automod.
Diplomjodler@feddit.de 9 months ago
Cool. That’ll be a fun trainwreck to watch.
theblueredditrefugee@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 months ago
Ooh, I can finally short!
erranto@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Contrary to many in here, I don’t think this will cause another exodus from reddit. those who might be concerned by this have already left or reduced their time on the platform
Goodie@lemmy.world 9 months ago
If Facebook hasn’t had a mas exodus, neither will Reddit.
Facebooks death is slow and ongoing, and I’m pretty sure Reddit’s will be too.
erranto@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I don’t know where you are getting your numbers. maybe it’s your selection bias, but facebook’s userbase keeps groing, and even if its getting less teenager engagement, those teenagers are flocking to Meta’s other platform Instagram.
9up999@lemmy.ml 9 months ago
If you move from facebook to instagram or threads why move at all?
nicetriangle@kbin.social 9 months ago
I’d expect another big exodus around then.
troyunrau@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
Yes. Best thing we can do is be ready (from a tech perspective) and welcoming (from a human perspective). They’ll come or they won’t.
Compared to summer, Lemmy now has thousands more users, hundreds of active communities (no where near Reddit yet on niche subjects), actual made-on-lemmy content in a bunch of places, and a bunch of apps that mostly have the bugs worked out. It’s probably fair more appealing now to join than it was in summer.
We still have roadblocks: general confusion about federation (the email analogy seems to be working best), difficulty properly explaining how to sign up, a harder time finding communities, and it’s impossible to migrate between instances without starting fresh.
Mirodir@discuss.tchncs.de 9 months ago
no where near Reddit yet on niche subjects
I’m always saddened by how not-active some of those subjects are. For example: Even many large games struggle to have dedicated, active communities on Lemmy (assuming I’m not terrible at finding them, which is sadly also possible). Even some of the largest games have only completely dead communities here. A huge draw of Reddit for me was to be able to talk about the games I play with other people who do too. And mostly, the games I’d love to talk about aren’t in the top 10 most played games list.
Now I could try to (re)vitalize those communities I would love to see around, and I have done so shortly after the exodus (on my previous account that died with the instance it was on). However, there’s only so much talking into the void I can do until it gets boring.
I also feel like that might be a big issue for people coming over. After I manage to explain to my friends how federation works, they ask me to help them find the [topic of their interest] community, and all I can show them is a community with 10 threads, all over 3 months old and with 0 comments. Sadly it shouldn’t surprise anyone they’re not sticking around after that.
Mereo@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
About migration, user migration is now possible in Lemmy 0.19:
Users can now export their data (community follows, blocklists, profile settings), and import it again on another instance. This can be used for account migrations and also as a form of backup. The export format is designed to remain unchanged for a long time. You can make regular exports, and if the instance becomes unavailable, register a new account and import the data. This way you can continue using Lemmy seamlessly.
OpenStars@startrek.website 9 months ago
All those toxic Redditors coming here… I hope we can manage to significantly beef up the mod tools before then.
hoshikarakitaridia@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
I still feel like if we want to grow faster organically we need to natively support more “discovery functions”. Just things that you can toggle of like for example a recommendation screen and stuff. The algorithm for it we can make and adapt open source so no one is scared we collect data.
We’re running into the Linux Vs Windows problem, where you can technically do more stuff and have more control over you account on Lemmy, but you need to be familiar with the fediverse before joining, just to Unterstand how to use Lemmy. That’s a big problem for any potential new user.
BudgieMania@kbin.social 9 months ago
I find Kbin's Collections feature a good fix for federation confusion. Honestly I think it should be the default type of view when browsing communities, you need to abstract the average user from federation as much as possible and leave browsing by instance as an advance option for those that want to engage with federation in detail
gt24@lemmy.sdf.org 9 months ago
Confusion about federation is not helped by federation not working recently due to a few notable Lemmy bugs (which are now fixed). Hopefully anyone new coming over doesn’t encounter any new major bugs.
Aatube@kbin.social 9 months ago
If a user didn’t exodus for the popular subs last time, I don’t see why they would this time.
Donut@leminal.space 9 months ago
Some of those popular subs were reopened with a new mod team that falls in line. Spez was too busy stuffing his ears with ad money instead of listening to his stakeholders
milkjug@lemmy.wildfyre.dev 9 months ago
I’ve never bought options before, but I’m in for 10grand and shorting the shit out of this.
GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk 9 months ago
If you’re serious, just remember the old saying “Markets can remain irrational a lot longer than you or I can remain solvent”
nutsack@lemmy.world 9 months ago
have no idea what reddit’s profit potential is but this is probably a bad idea
Jeremyward@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Usually they don’t allow options on new stocks until after the cutoff period. Unless your broker allows naked shorting.
cooopsspace@infosec.pub 9 months ago
Proof or ban
themaninblack@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I think what may buoy them is the fact that you must append “Reddit” to searches, however, ChatGPT, DuckDuckGo, and Kagi are giving them a run for their money
NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Not financial advice, but there’s been a few times I wanted to short something (I didn’t in the end) but one thing to watch out for after an IPO is the date insiders are allowed to start selling stock. It’s often 6 months or so after the IPO.
So if a company jumps in value post IPO, there might be an opportunity to short it at some point, with the options expiring a period of time after the insider sell off date.
I imagine I’m going to do some paper trades on reddit on this and see what happens.
assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world 9 months ago
TLDR how do?
cley_faye@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I’m curious how they will tank their worth by then, as is tradition.
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Easiest short of my life.
Flex@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Wouldn’t be surprised to see lemmy activity spike in March. Probably not as big as during the API debacle, but still.
ConstipatedWatson@lemmy.world 9 months ago
… And so it begins…
negativenull@lemm.ee 9 months ago
… And so it
beginscontinues …
MrJameGumb@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Is it even worth anything to investors anymore at this point? Huffman kind of destroyed any faith anyone had in Reddit, seems like it’s just going to slowly turn into an ad distribution service to scam people who don’t know any better lol
athos77@kbin.social 9 months ago
I've said myself that reddit's biggest assets were it's passionate userbase and it's trove of commentary. But I remember reading a comment, years ago now, that reddit's biggest asset was it's profile data. They know what communities you visited, and which you were most passionate about. They know what specific topics and keywords got you involved in a conversation. They know the content that you upvote and that you downvote. They know roughly where you live, what times you're online. They probably have a decent idea of your job and how much you earn. They data is worth something to data brokers, and it wouldn't surprise me if they start selling it after the IPO.
Xeroxchasechase@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Well yeah, but that’s worth a lot.
Nollij@sopuli.xyz 9 months ago
There’s always some value to vultures (and vulture capital) that want to pick over the pieces. It might even still have meaningful value as an ongoing social media platform. But the expected IPO value has dropped heavily in the past few years, and is likely to keep dropping. This really isn’t because of anything at Reddit, but of the financial markets in general.
The big question is how will investors feel about the potential for returns, i.e. revenues. I expect to see (well, read about) a whole lot of enshittification over there. Much more data mining, ads, freemium features, etc.
AlexisFR@jlai.lu 9 months ago
I hope the STONKS Apes are ready…
Gork@lemm.ee 9 months ago
Hope we see some more migration. Lemmy is miniscule in comparison, with 60,000 active users by last count.
Heck, even /r/mildyinteresting has 220,000 users and that isn’t even the main subreddit, it’s a misspelled version of the main subreddit /r/mildlyinteresting.
foggy@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Buying puts on that bitch on day 1.
FrostKing@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Can someone tell me what IPO is, and act like I’m not an idiot XD
webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 9 months ago
The offering would also test the willingness of some Reddit users to back the company’s stock market debut. Many investors posting on the platform have helped fuel dozens of “meme” stock rallies in the last three years.
Whatever nonsense the’re implying here is twisted and awefull. Like they owe it to the platform?
BlackSkinnedJew@lemmynsfw.com 9 months ago
I hope a big fail LMAO…
Unpigged@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 months ago
Good luck Mr. Gorsky
1984@lemmy.today 9 months ago
Grabbing popcorn, I’m ready to be entertained by their failure. :)
lunaticneko@lemmy.world 9 months ago
They’re still trying to do that?!
giacomo@lemm.ee 9 months ago
When can I buy puts?
Gazumi@lemmy.world 9 months ago
What if Musk buys the front page of the internet. There are some interesting Pro’s and Cons
atx_aquarian@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Isn’t this just a business article?
MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Fuck Reddit. Scumbags.
hoshikarakitaridia@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
RIP Aaron indeed. May his fighting spirit be the anchor point for any community that’s succeeding Reddit.
ahriboy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 months ago
Aaron’s actions have inspired maia arson crimew.
FenrirIII@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Amen.