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This is one of those rare cases where what is being said is less interesting than who says it.
What: Reddit stock is junk, the IPO will fail hard, and anyone investing on it is begging to lose money. I believe that most people discussing this in Lemmy already know that, so the info isn't new here.
Who: Forbes. Forbes' target audience is investors; greedy vulture capitalists love it. So if Forbes says "it'll sink!", investors are less eager to buy stock, and that sinks the stonks even further. So what Forbes says is often a self-fulfilling prophecy.
I'm glad that Forbes is doing it. I want to see Reddit die.
EDIT: as other posters are correctly highlighting, I derped - the article is from a "contributor", and it has basically no impact or visibility.
Damn - now I want Forbes shitting on the IPO!
One of the most convincing points is ...
I sure as hell wouldn't acquire a company for a product that has a near identical, free, open-source alternative that's in active use.
0.1% of the users isn't exactly a threat to their model.
Just like Reddit wasn't a threat to Digg.
The scale is immensely and massively different. Modern social media is not going away, the digg phenomena was one driven by a much smaller number of more passionate users.
That much smaller number of more passionate users has already left Reddit.