<story><title>Reddit valued at $6B on a $250M round</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-reddit-funding/reddits-valuation-doubles-to-6-billion-after-new-250-million-funding-idUSKBN2A9056</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jug</author><text>Yes, discoverability of &amp;quot;good&amp;quot; subreddits is not there. But on the other hand I think Reddit get too much criticism. I find most subreddits besides the big catch-all ones like &amp;#x2F;r&amp;#x2F;pics good.&lt;p&gt;Basically all the TV shows have fun post-episode discussions and going through Game of Thrones, Black Sails or The Expanse wouldn&amp;#x27;t have been the same without Reddit for me. It becomes the group of buddies I can vent or be in awe with, when they don&amp;#x27;t share my TV show preferences at home.&lt;p&gt;Formula1 is a must for an F1 fan. Wow, I&amp;#x27;ve learnt so much and the community is now part of watching F1. Pre-race chats, post-race, pre-qualification, post-qualification, haha... The behind the scenes racing drama...&lt;p&gt;MechanicalKeyboards can look over the top and elitist at first sight, until you realize they have self-distance and generally pretty relaxed (and it&amp;#x27;s very inspiring, dangerously so for my pocket...)</text></item><item><author>rkho</author><text>Reddit is an intentionally designed dopamine machine with some areas of usefulness. There are pockets of great, high signal communities on Reddit that have not been unbundled. Discovery, however, is a mess.&lt;p&gt;Some examples of some great subs:&lt;p&gt;- HomeImprorvement is great for repair advice&lt;p&gt;- Keto was helpful in my weight loss journey&lt;p&gt;- Posture for, well, fixing my posture&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve also bought and sold various digital and physical goods through HardwareSwap, GameSale, SteamGameSwap, and others. One of Reddit&amp;#x27;s strengths is being able to tie a username to a post history across many interests, which has given me enough confidence signals in buying and selling things on there. I&amp;#x27;m sure fraud happens, but I have personally not (yet) been affected by it when transacting on the platform.&lt;p&gt;But the main, core &amp;quot;Reddit experience&amp;quot; as algorithmically produced by r&amp;#x2F;Popular is a complete dumpster fire. It&amp;#x27;s the noise of the entire internet, jam packed into a webpage. So many low quality posts and comments that encapsulate all the negatives about &amp;quot;internet culture&amp;quot;. There&amp;#x27;s no room for thoughtful discussion and discourse on the majority of the site, just shitposting and low rung commentary.&lt;p&gt;Because of that, having a productive&amp;#x2F;net positive Reddit experience comes with a high barrier to entry in knowing which communities to pay attention to and which time sinks to avoid.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Shivetya</author><text>Actually it may be best to unsub to most of the default subs including pics because of the political noise (which &amp;#x2F;pics magically banned since the Jan 14 and may continue past the one month ban). Seriously, too many subs are so over the top flooded with managed political crap it just poisons the well. Reddit is actively managed by political groups because of its position in the internet.&lt;p&gt;the targeted subs is where its at on reddit. So my recommendation is edit your subscriptions and remove all but what you specifically came for.</text></comment>
<story><title>Reddit valued at $6B on a $250M round</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-reddit-funding/reddits-valuation-doubles-to-6-billion-after-new-250-million-funding-idUSKBN2A9056</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jug</author><text>Yes, discoverability of &amp;quot;good&amp;quot; subreddits is not there. But on the other hand I think Reddit get too much criticism. I find most subreddits besides the big catch-all ones like &amp;#x2F;r&amp;#x2F;pics good.&lt;p&gt;Basically all the TV shows have fun post-episode discussions and going through Game of Thrones, Black Sails or The Expanse wouldn&amp;#x27;t have been the same without Reddit for me. It becomes the group of buddies I can vent or be in awe with, when they don&amp;#x27;t share my TV show preferences at home.&lt;p&gt;Formula1 is a must for an F1 fan. Wow, I&amp;#x27;ve learnt so much and the community is now part of watching F1. Pre-race chats, post-race, pre-qualification, post-qualification, haha... The behind the scenes racing drama...&lt;p&gt;MechanicalKeyboards can look over the top and elitist at first sight, until you realize they have self-distance and generally pretty relaxed (and it&amp;#x27;s very inspiring, dangerously so for my pocket...)</text></item><item><author>rkho</author><text>Reddit is an intentionally designed dopamine machine with some areas of usefulness. There are pockets of great, high signal communities on Reddit that have not been unbundled. Discovery, however, is a mess.&lt;p&gt;Some examples of some great subs:&lt;p&gt;- HomeImprorvement is great for repair advice&lt;p&gt;- Keto was helpful in my weight loss journey&lt;p&gt;- Posture for, well, fixing my posture&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve also bought and sold various digital and physical goods through HardwareSwap, GameSale, SteamGameSwap, and others. One of Reddit&amp;#x27;s strengths is being able to tie a username to a post history across many interests, which has given me enough confidence signals in buying and selling things on there. I&amp;#x27;m sure fraud happens, but I have personally not (yet) been affected by it when transacting on the platform.&lt;p&gt;But the main, core &amp;quot;Reddit experience&amp;quot; as algorithmically produced by r&amp;#x2F;Popular is a complete dumpster fire. It&amp;#x27;s the noise of the entire internet, jam packed into a webpage. So many low quality posts and comments that encapsulate all the negatives about &amp;quot;internet culture&amp;quot;. There&amp;#x27;s no room for thoughtful discussion and discourse on the majority of the site, just shitposting and low rung commentary.&lt;p&gt;Because of that, having a productive&amp;#x2F;net positive Reddit experience comes with a high barrier to entry in knowing which communities to pay attention to and which time sinks to avoid.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dbbk</author><text>They&amp;#x27;ve actually done a lot on discoverability recently. In fact just looking at the homepage now I can see two sections devoted to surfacing rising communities.</text></comment>