Why “Reddit” is being discussed
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It makes sense. If you take away the traditional ways such a service makes money out of you (advertising, selling your access patterns and data), but still want to run a service…
by spacedcowboy · Sep 12, 2026
> HN has a rule: only 10% of your links should lead to your own blog. If you consistently post links only to your own blog, your account will soon be shadowbanned. To get out of…
by gus_massa · Sep 12, 2026
Oh sorry I was unclear -- this 100% looks like a good faith blogger to me. The reddit posts are much, much lazier, and all using basically fresh accounts.
by bbor · Sep 12, 2026
Reddit is probably the worst of these ad platforms. We had a simple issue: we couldn't set the account that the ad was coming from to be the correct one (we have two Reddit acco…
by ksajadi · Sep 12, 2026
That's assuming you can get your ad seen, plenty of times I've seen Reddit's own ads for advertising on Reddit and I'll never see my ads. So I'm bidding against Reddit on Reddit…
by cube00 · Sep 12, 2026
It's not just that. Several social medias have evolved to the point where being a prick is mandatory or is rewarded. Chief example is X, where you get rewarded for agreeing with…
by mitxela · Sep 12, 2026
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Reddit is an American proprietary social news aggregation and forum social media platform. Registered users submit content to the site such as links, text posts, images, and videos, which are then voted up or down by other members. Posts are organized by subject into user-created boards called "subreddits". Submissions with more upvotes appear towards the top of their subreddit and, if they receive enough upvotes, ultimately on the site's front page. Reddit administrators moderate the communities. Moderation is also conducted by subreddit-specific moderators, who are unpaid volunteers. It is operated by Reddit, Inc., based in San Francisco. Read more on Wikipedia