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[–] [email protected] 160 points 9 months ago (4 children)

When can we start shorting the stock? /s

[–] SpruceBringsteen 96 points 9 months ago (2 children)

If you really want to sabotage, just upload lots of videos to subreddits that you can't advertise on.

[–] [email protected] 84 points 9 months ago (4 children)

so use Reddit for exclusively porn? way ahead of you

[–] [email protected] 93 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Im betting porn only has a year or 2 left on reddit. They already been slowly purging for years. Got to keep the advertisers happy.

[–] Gigan 57 points 9 months ago (5 children)

There was some other social media site that banned porn a few years ago, I think it was Tumblr? I wonder how that worked out for them.

[–] NocturnalMorning 39 points 9 months ago

Let me check my Tumblr, oh wait. I don't have one.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Tumblr reversed their ban a year ago, so that's pretty self evident.

[–] Asidonhopo 6 points 9 months ago

It was only a partial reversal from what I've heard.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago (1 children)

What's even there now? I only knew of tumbler because of the anime titties.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

It's been pretty active all this time tbh. I didn't notice getting worse, but then I was never there for the porn.

Maybe not active in the right way from an advertising perspective idk, but it's never been lacking good content.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

OnlyFans tried a while back. There was probably some internal political maneuvering going on with that one.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Isn't the whole point of that platform porn though?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Tells you how scarred advertisers are of a titty.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

OnlyFans isn't funded by advertising. It appears to be the credit card industry at the heart of this one.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

I think it was Freakonomics that did a series on it? But yeah, quite an interesting and convoluted series of events.

[–] FangedWyvern42 1 points 9 months ago

They reversed the ban and in any case, there was still a shit ton of porn on the site, it was just written rather than drawn.

[–] chrishazfun 5 points 9 months ago

2 years left till the inevitable porn ban on reddit and 3 years till that decision kills them

[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago (1 children)

But they killed APIs entirely for nsfw, so that is broken now too.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

You can technically just make yourself a mod of your own private subreddit, then NSFW works fine with the API. It works with RedReader. I still use Reddit a bit for very niche subreddits.

[–] RadialMonster 5 points 9 months ago

Reddit doesn't allow NSFW videos on their own hosting service

[–] wreckedcarzz 8 points 9 months ago

brb time to launch my porn career!

[–] [email protected] 40 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

Hmmm, let's see.


  • Failing company rooted in a more traditional framework they're trying to break out of

  • Said company has no idea what they're doing and keep doing ridiculous things to "break out of" traditional framework

  • Keeps doing things no user/customer asked for

  • Said company has no real effective long-term game-plan and keeps changing tack because of bad previous choices

  • 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!!!

[–] [email protected] 35 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Keeps doing things no user/customer asked for

I'm pretty sure the advertisers - their real customers - asked them to show more ads.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Huffman is ostensibly following Elon Musk's lead, and last I checked, Musk had pretty effectively chased away a massive amount of what one might call "rational" advertisers. Reddit is absolutely following a similar path, and soon enough there will be advertisers who no longer want to be associated with a toxic brand.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 9 months ago

Ostensibly? I think you mean obviously/openly.

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/reddit-blackout-protest-private-ceo-elon-musk-huffman-rcna89700

It's not just similarities; Steve Huffman is openly and directly copying Musk. Honestly, given Ex-Twitter's performance, I have no idea why any investors are allowing that.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago

spez doesn't care. He's realized that, despite his best befuddled efforts, reddit is failing and that no one else will hire him for a cushy CEO job. He wants to take his bag and leave while the getting is still (relatively) good.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

Dont forget the booooots sooo mannny boooots how the hell are there such low effort bots everywhere on that site

[–] TropicalDingdong 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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 11 points 9 months ago

Why do ya need tons of money for shorts? I can buy some $15 shorts at Walmart just easily.

[–] CaptainSpaceman 5 points 9 months ago

Prob didnt need the /s