Summary
Reddit shares have dropped 50% from their February peak, when the stock had soared over 500% from its $34 IPO price last March.
Much of the early enthusiasm came from AI-related deals allowing Reddit’s content to be used for training models, but recent doubts about long-term growth in the AI sector have dimmed that optimism.
Analysts remain skeptical and some call the stock “super overvalued,” noting Reddit still is not making any money.
Market uncertainty and early investor sell-offs continue to weigh on Reddit and the broader tech sector.
Plunge baby, plunge.
Reddit is not coming back. I know when a site is dead
Yep it’s been slowly declining for years. There’s no coming back from what a shithole it now is
God I hope you’re right. Nazi Spez and his chud admins are gonna be shitting bricks when they realize elon isn’t bailing them out.
Elon just sold Twitter to xAI for 33B, Reddit bastards can probably do similar. Some dumbfuck at Google or Microsoft will probably buy it.
xAI is Elon’s AI company. I don’t think the value at which he is willing to sell his one company to his other company applies much to anything outside of Musk’s companies.
In fact him selling it to himself shows the price is probably inflated
Link to this? There hasn’t been anything in the news about such a sale.
plenty of news about it. but it is just elon giving his company to another company. Like facebook to meta or google to alphabet.
The funniest thing about it is, he valued twitter at 3/4th of what he bought it for.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ceqjq11202ro
Other shit has been bigger news.
Thanks, I’ll give it a read.
We said the same thing about Facebook 15 years ago. Look at them now. Still twitching proudly with the vigour of youth while their teeth are falling out and their flesh is rotting.
Bye bye…officially deleted my reddit account. Enough interaction on here I can 100% make the plunge now. Sad because I have been there so long. But I rememeber when digg died, and its time to move on.
I was there for diggs death. I was a young college student.
I held off on Reddit and enjoyed a lack of that style of addiction for like 2 years. Then slowly reddit consumed me.
I haven’t been back for anything but porn since the API-pocalypse.
How’s Lemmy porn so far? I keep this account SFW
It’s getting better. Not nearly as much content but also not nearly as much only fans click bait.
So it’s ok, but reddits quantity has Lemmy’s quality beaten.
“Run, motherfucker, run”
-snoop dogg
Burn baby burn, disco inferno
Short the dip .
Lets take a platform driven by community participation and ostracize community users. Yeah that’ll work out well.
Reddit getting Digged and me likey.
That is a deep cut reference. They are relaunching as an AI play.
That will bring back the people who were providing the free content.
(/s on the last part)
Seriously. I remember Digg. My life’s social media path has been slashdot->digg->reddit->lemmy.
I was there! I saw it all! <shakes cane>
Yep the train from being offered early access to their IPO as a “power user” to a permanent account ban did not take long.
So here I am
They are counting on the dark internet theory to keep up the appearance of engagement.
Fuck them.
yep they will, it’ll be grok running 99% of twitter and 95% of reddit in the next 5 years. (and those numbers are probably already near there)
Aww, did Spez trade the family cow for some “magic” beans?
Good luck rebuilding the farm now, buddy.
My parting message to Spez when I changed all my posts was, “Enjoy the IPO asshat!” While I wish I could update that message, it’ll still do. xD
hi i am the human male, called spez, i was birthed from a alien space ship , and hatched from an egg and sent to earth to manipulate the populace.
I remember the early days of Reddit when it really felt like a community project. Back then, they had the goodwill necessary that Redditors would have personally financed a chunk of the costs of running particular Subreddits. Not anymore. That goodwill is gone.
something something live long enough to see yourself become the villain.
The censorship going on there is crazy. I understand a site needs to tamp down on violent rhetoric but they crossed the line into absurdity. They banned me for calling out the racism in the GOP platform.
You sound like a far left lunatic. Welcome to Lemmy!
Hey that’s why I’m here too lol
Same. 11 year old account got banned for saying something. I’m not even entirely sure what it was. They deleted it and gave me the finger.
Fine with me.
I had my account since the pandemic and I got one 3 day ban for “inciting violence” a few weeks ago and they didnt tell me what I actually did. It was lifted so I moved on and kept following the rules. Then a day after the article about spez caving to musk came out I was given a perma site wide ban for “inciting violence” with no working link to what I actually did. The admins wouldn’t tell me either. I assume it’s because of my activity in left leaning subs and my comments calling Musk a shithead and saying his toy cars are garbage.
They’ll sweep ban entire comment sections of a submission they don’t approve of and they’re using AI to do it, so there are lots of false positives and dubious reasoning. They’ll send you a message lecturing you on your behavior but delete your comment so you’re left with only a vague idea of what they’re referring to.
And they wonder why their stock is tanking. The only outcome I see for reddit in it’s current state is being bought out by Google and turned into a telemetry farm.
Before they used shitty AI, they just hired autistic mods who would exaggerate anything into a bannable offense of some kind.
I got a 15 year old account banned for logging in via tor… they run a tor website for tor access on the tor network lmfao.
But joke aside, socialism and Marx aren’t bad words around here. ☺️
Common Lemmy W
Marx never bathed and had boils all over his body
Typical wook beggar
I want to see the comedy-of-errors timeline where Luigi beats the rap based on a technicality or jury nullification…He finally gets out of jail…Then he immediately does it again.
Thanks! I came from Reddit too. Looking for a safer place to stay in touch with the community. Are we allowed to say the name of Mario’s brother here?
You can not only say Luigi, but you can also say that you wished it had started a trend.
Yes
Just keep in mind, “it’s called the Fediverse because it’s crawling with Feds.”
Don’t get stupid.
Nice lol. Feds love the avg worker, no way they giving up my tax dollars.
The basic rule is that you can say what you want (and people can call you what they want for it!).
It would be polite to self moderate to an extent. No point getting the instance owners in to legal hot water. That’s a massively higher bar than Reddit has set however. Chatting about and admiring Luigi is completely fine.
Aldo?
I have to admit I never thought they would punish users for simply upvoting content that went against their corporate overlords’ interests. True thought policing.
Reddit. Free speech*
*only if your free speech aligns with our interests.
they are tamping down on the wrong kind of content, anything that disagree with israel, luigis incarceration, or elon and trump is an auto ban.
Spez fundamentally misunderstands what Reddit is and who it belongs to: the people making the posts and providing the content. The more he alienates the users, the less value Reddit will have. He’s shot himself in the foot and he’s getting ready to fire again.
Oh he does, he just doesn’t care.
The line goes up, then you sell out to some anticompetitive behemoth to eat before it implodes. That’s how it works.
It’s not just the AI bubble, it’s a distinct lack of faith in Huffman and as a CEO. He’s not forward-thinking enough, he hasn’t understood where the company’s value lies, and he’s ridiculously distracted by the latest shiny tech things (reddit NFT avatars, reddit crypto, reddit AI).
I fully expect Google to buy reddit at some point, exclusively harvesting all the info for their search engine, all the content for their AI models, and all the submission/view/voting data for their user profiles (what are you interested in, what do you think of these concepts, where are you connecting from, here are more ads we can send you, and these are arguments that might sway you in purchasing or other decisions).
If Google weren’t under antitrust pressure, I think that would have already happened.
In many ways, a Google owner would probably make Reddit better for a while. Google cares a lot more about the data people are generating than making the site itself profitable. They could afford to run it at a loss for years, whereas Reddit investors want to ensure they make money soon.
But, I’m glad it might not happen. Then again, who knows what will happen to Google and antitrust in the Trump admin, where bribery is now perfectly legal.
Tends to happen when you ban all of your users
He listens to swatsticars guy why would any care any more
If you deleted your content, reminder to go back and check it again. Despite running a deletion from my GDPR export data, yesterday I noticed a bunch of comments suddenly showing up on my account that weren’t there before so I i had to rerun the deletion.
Is there a way to delete your data if you’ve been site banned?
I’m not sure. If you can log in, probably. You can try a GDPR request, but reddit has refused to delete data under GDPR, saying deleting your name off posts and comments is sufficient.
Should also go back and check to see if you were unbanned. I was banned during the API purge, for mass editing+deleting my comments. First automod banned me from various pro-Spez subs when I started editing my old comments. Then when I repeated the edit+delete with my second/third/etc accounts, it “permanently” banned them site wide for ban evasion.
Went back a little while later, and all of my accounts were magically unbanned and all of the edits+deletes were undone. The benign explanation is likely that the ban(s) prevented any of the edits from actually committing. But the more tinfoil-hat explanation is that the admins want the site to look more active, so they rolled back bans so old content was still available and their user count appeared higher than reality.
it does explain why you could comment in subs you were banned years ago. i heard at least from the modhelp sub that permabans were supposodely to be 1-year before it gets unbanned, obvious repeat offendors get a lifetime ban(the spammers excessive account bottings). but thing is some subs dont update thier filters so they can ban you again, and trigger a sitewide ban.
There’s a non-malicious reason for this - if you used a script based on interacting with the website, when subreddits went hidden, it actually hidden your own comments from you. So they aren’t visible to automated scripts and then when subreddits go visible again, suddenly it looks like comments “came back”.
And this is compliant with GDPR?
“Your stuff was hidden when you made the delete request. But then later we made it un-hidden so oh well 🤷”
No, because what he’s describing is a self-run comment editing and deleting script.
GDPR account deletion works very differently.
Note I’m not defending Reddit here, as much as anything it’s advice for anyone (like me) who has to go back and re-run the script every few months because of those brave people whose form of protest is very temporarily inconveniencing themselves.
i noticed when i deleted my primary comments, it was ommiting other posts, like controversial.
Been deleting my account regularly since 2024. You need to keep at it. It will eventually go away.
Is there a way I as an american can delete all my posts from my banned accounts?
Sucks to suck. Fuck Spez.
Look, we can all laugh at that guy. That’s it, that’s the end of my comment.
Spez can suck a taint. I was on there forever and immediately bounced once that bullshit banning stuff started happening. Should have left sooner but that was the final straw
Who could have foreseen that banning all the highly active, long-term accounts in the same month would have a negative effect? Now they can live with all their bots, puns, Russian Karma Farmers, novelty accounts, and trolls.
He was pretty much on musks taint
For real, they probably go bang kids together
Yeah, same here. It took a few things over time to ultimately get me to leave, but my finding out many of my comments were being shadow-removed was it.
I commented on a niche sub a few days ago, and it got shadow removed by the mod, don’t even show up as a violation on the inbox, then it triggered a “suspicious activity on account ban, until I change password”, also because I used a Firefox fork instead of the chromium browser
Their only utility now is in five year old comment threads discussing niche topics, and that can only stay relevant so long.
Though half the time it’s
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thanks that really solved my problem, you’re amazing!
I still have mixed feelings about deleting one’s whole comment history, though i also did that when I left reddit. it’s the right thing to do, but the amount of information lost because of greedy leadership is super sad.
I still have mixed feelings about deleting one’s whole comment history, though i also did that when I left reddit.
Same. I also did that. Mass edits + delete. I wish there was a way we could collectively move all that history to a non-commercial platform.
it’s the right thing to do, but the amount of information lost because of greedy leadership is super sad.
Also same. I backed up all my user data for sentimental reasons, but that’s hardly enough to be of any utility on its own.
I really did feel like I was participating in a community, and was doing something positive with all my posting. I was just treating reddit like any other forum from my youth, not really thinking how ofc it would become commodified and enshittified.
I feel like such a fucking idiot sucker. Over a decade putting in time outside work, lunch breaks, toilet breaks, morning, evening, just contributing to an IPO package.
don’t feel bad; you were contributing to a community. all the people that updooted your posts were grateful for the advice, laughter, kindness, or insight you gave.
it’s just over now, and we need to build new communities again. nothing lasts forever.
Don’t delete your account, scramble your past comments into AI generated gibberish. It poisons the well for AI and makes the site even more unusable by humans.
There is nothing like reading one or two sentences into a comment and realizing it is garbage.
Most of mine was on the controversial subs, it was better if it’s gone,
OK, so download it first, then delete it.
I left all my comments up. I decided it’s fine.
A “dip” is when the stock goes back up. This is a correction
I thought a “dip” was the CEO of Reddit.
Looks like we’re both right!
lol. It’s only going to get worse. The site used to be the top place to look something up, now it’s just going to be full of deleted answers and disappointment.
Its already increasing hard to find relevant posts when doing a Google search with reddit in search. Most posts are from 2 years ago with low upvotes for niche topics.
This does make me happy
It makes me sad. Such a great resource, gone, with no replacement.
For some medical inquire it’s still useful. But if your looking for politics or news, not a good idea, or subs where there’s para social fans of a specific show or actor.
For some medical inquire it’s still useful.
Anyone who would make a medical inquiry on Reddit, then believe what they’re told, deserves whatever dire consequence happens to them as a result.
Maybe if they didn’t ban their (majority) liberal users for having “opinions” on the current government, after nonstop rhetoric from conservatives.
banning people for also calling out right wingers and trolls, worst is banning people for misconstrued statements, and also reporting people,g ets you banned.
like one time '18 a person asked why people were calling MICHELLE obama a certain way, i said the conservatives called her a gorilla, with gorilla arms, insta-banned.
they allowed astroturfing on reddit, which makes worst because they are tryint to “look fair” but refuse to do anything about the right wingers control certain subs.
actual POLICE(former and active) individuals control the legal and videos related subs.
ahhh is that why so many people are here now? I’ve been watching development and browsing but it was pretty dead for years until the last year or so lol
Half of reddit comments are all bots , and many posts are AI generated
5 years ago there were entire subreddits of bot only discussions while they were training. Do you know of those? We had tons of discussions on them. This started before the LLM craze too.
wow that is hilarious https://www.reddit.com/r/findareddit/comments/14kxk9e/please_help_me_find_the_reddit_that_only_lets/
do not see the ones predating some LLMs though but anyway yea I think it was obvious what was coming
That’s why I’m here, last week I deleted my 12 year old reddit account
I used to get banned all the time from liberal users too. Especially, when the whole Bernie Bro thing was happening. r/politics was the fucking worst.
Are you me? Because I got banned from every group at one point or anotherc… r/guns, r/europe, r/politics, etc. etc.
Ironically what got my account permanently banned was a comment advocating for disabled access to buildings in r/Europe of all my comments I didn’t expect that one to get me banned…
After that I scrambled all my comments on my 10+ year old account into AI generated gibberish to poison the well and moved to Lemmy. Now I just use Reddit for porn searches.
I didn’t think I was you, until you mentioned just using Reddit for porn searches… Ya never know! I made a joke about guillotines, bitched about how the Dems helped let this mess happen, etc. If the stakes were so fucking high, then why did they try to Weekend at Bernies “my friend Joe” over the finish line until his brain turned to mush on live tv?
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