▲ 624 ▼ The Reddit Protest Is Finally Over. Reddit Won. (gizmodo.com) submitted 3 years ago by L4s@lemmy.world [M, B] to c/technology@lemmy.world 186 comments fedilink hide all child comments The Reddit Protest Is Finally Over. Reddit Won.::Reddit corporate claims victory over its disgruntled mods as r/aww, r/pics, and r/videos abandon the "John Oliver rule."
[–] db2@sopuli.xyz 10 points 3 years ago (2 children) They won't recover. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] meco03211@lemmy.world 20 points 3 years ago (1 child) I would desperately love to know what they estimated the IPO at before and after this whole mess. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] echodot@feddit.uk 3 points 3 years ago Is also worth remembering that the person doing the estimate was insane. Even before all of the process the site was never worth the four billion dollars or whatever the hell that stupid number was. The site was massively valued because of the user data not for the site itself now that a lot of the user data is gone and not a lot of new user data is being generated the site is less valuable. The websites still exists of course but that was never the valuable bit of it. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] meco03211@lemmy.world 20 points 3 years ago (1 child) I would desperately love to know what they estimated the IPO at before and after this whole mess. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] echodot@feddit.uk 3 points 3 years ago Is also worth remembering that the person doing the estimate was insane. Even before all of the process the site was never worth the four billion dollars or whatever the hell that stupid number was. The site was massively valued because of the user data not for the site itself now that a lot of the user data is gone and not a lot of new user data is being generated the site is less valuable. The websites still exists of course but that was never the valuable bit of it. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] echodot@feddit.uk 3 points 3 years ago Is also worth remembering that the person doing the estimate was insane. Even before all of the process the site was never worth the four billion dollars or whatever the hell that stupid number was. The site was massively valued because of the user data not for the site itself now that a lot of the user data is gone and not a lot of new user data is being generated the site is less valuable. The websites still exists of course but that was never the valuable bit of it. permalink fedilink source parent