<story><title>Reddit CEO doubles down on attack on Apollo developer in drama-filled AMA</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2023/06/09/reddit-ceo-doubles-down-on-attack-on-apollo-developer-in-drama-filled-ama/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hiccuphippo</author><text>I think a place like reddit should be a non-profit foundation rather than a business. The Archive Of Our Own community was able to do it, the reddit community can do it too.</text></item><item><author>mduggles</author><text>Reddit cannot go public. Its product is volunteer work by moderators and users to produce value. There’s no way to take that work and guarantee its delivery on a quarterly cycle.&lt;p&gt;This is all a ridiculous self-delusion that Reddit management has engaged in that the platform is really the “value add”. It’s not. Reddit has become the shorthand for cut through ML spam and that’s based on users constantly posting up to the minute accurate data. There’s almost no historical value to that data.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jeffparsons</author><text>I&amp;#x27;d feel a lot more comfortable giving my time to &amp;quot;the community&amp;quot; under an arrangement like that, too. The fediverse has its place, for sure, but I think a centralised platform run by a non-profit has the best chance of unseating Reddit in the short term.&lt;p&gt;It could even connect to the fediverse, but with its own moderation hierarchy etc. so it has its own culture and doesn&amp;#x27;t _rely_ on the fediverse.</text></comment>
<story><title>Reddit CEO doubles down on attack on Apollo developer in drama-filled AMA</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2023/06/09/reddit-ceo-doubles-down-on-attack-on-apollo-developer-in-drama-filled-ama/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hiccuphippo</author><text>I think a place like reddit should be a non-profit foundation rather than a business. The Archive Of Our Own community was able to do it, the reddit community can do it too.</text></item><item><author>mduggles</author><text>Reddit cannot go public. Its product is volunteer work by moderators and users to produce value. There’s no way to take that work and guarantee its delivery on a quarterly cycle.&lt;p&gt;This is all a ridiculous self-delusion that Reddit management has engaged in that the platform is really the “value add”. It’s not. Reddit has become the shorthand for cut through ML spam and that’s based on users constantly posting up to the minute accurate data. There’s almost no historical value to that data.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bradleyjg</author><text>We had something like that. It was called USENET. With the right reader and a decent ISP, it was great.</text></comment>