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[–] 72 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

They are about 2 years too late.

The rise in interest rates and the end of easy VC money has swung the dial back to: Companies actually need to generate profit and not just show user growth to be attractive to investors.

The IPO will not go as spez dreamed for so long.

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  • [–] 57 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Time to fire up the protests again and shut down major subreddits again.

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  • [–] 45 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    Honestly, why bother?

    Management has been wanting to cash out for a decade.

    The IPO will go ahead, the reddit of the days of yore is dead. It will not improve.

    The horse is dead, beating it will just make you hot, sweaty and your arm sore.

    No matter what you feel about the place it was never going to go any other way.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    It's like thinking one final shopping spree at Toys'R'Us would have stopped the hedge fund flunkies from siphoning every last cent out of the company.

    They already made the decision. The data doesn't matter (much like the Work From Home / Return To Office fight) and the decision has been made to squeeze profits until it is bled dry.

    They never really cared how the userbase was going to feel about it.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    A new protest and shutdown would be to get it into the media eye in a bad light. Not actually do anything of importance to the site.

    After all, the 24 hour news cycle lives on scandals.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    The horse is dead, beating it will just make you hot, sweaty and your arm sore.

    Are we really going to overlook the smell?

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  • [–] 23 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I give it 2 months before they axe or further cripple old.reddit prior to IPO, should give Lemmy another wave of new users.

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  • [–] 22 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Oh, not a good time to do that. I wonder if something forced their hand to do an IPO during an economic downturn.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago

    Im sure content will just exponentially increase in quality once the only thing that is important is "stonks go up".

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    A certain Steve miller band song comes to mind.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago*

    Take The Money and Run?

    I was thinking more along the lines of: The Gambler

    You got to know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em

    Know when to walk away and know when to run

    Except they should have walked away about 4 years ago...when their chip stack was a much larger pile. Now they are trying to run with what they have left.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    I think this is a great time for remaining Reddit users to do a 3 month Reddit detox.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    Oh man. This is gonna be fun. I already got all the stuff I need off the site. I can't wait.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    Puts on that IPO.

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