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L4sBot Feb 24, 2024

A lot of Redditors hate the Reddit IPO | Reddit warned us that its users were a risk factor, and boy do they sound excited about shorting its stock.

https://lemmy.world/post/12355029

A lot of Redditors hate the Reddit IPO | Reddit warned us that its users were a risk factor, and boy do they sound excited about shorting its stock. - Lemmy.World

A lot of Redditors hate the Reddit IPO | Reddit warned us that its users were a risk factor, and boy do they sound excited about shorting its stock.::Reddit seems like a likely candidate for a meme stock. But the actual reaction suggests that r/WallStreetBets isn’t going to send the stock to the moon.

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jaybone Feb 25, 2024

I don’t get why, if these people hate Reddit so much and they want the IPO to fail, why are they still using the platform?

Once people get burned with that stock purchase email, they are going to have even more pissed off users.

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zalgotext Feb 25, 2024

I don’t get why, if these people hate Reddit so much and they want the IPO to fail, why are they still using the platform?

Could be several reasons:

they’re addicted
they don’t know any alternatives
they still like using the platform, they just disagree with the financial/executive decisions being made
the alternatives don’t have equivalent communities
their communities don’t want to move to an alternative
they like the alternatives even less than Reddit

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DumbAceDragon Feb 25, 2024

Honestly, Lemmy just does not have the amount of niche content nor the large userbase of reddit. I don’t even bother following communities here because there’s barely enough on c/all.

The only reason I haven’t gone back to reddit is because I know for a fact things are only gonna get worse on there. That, and pure unadulterated spite.

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odelik Feb 25, 2024

My biggest problem with lemmy is discovery.

I can’t find shit I want unless it comes across all and I find it interesting.

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Randomgal Feb 25, 2024

So what you’re saying is you miss the algorithm.

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odelik

No, what I miss are tools for searching for communities that actually work. While technically those use algorithms to find communities, but I don’t miss “the algorithm”.