Reddit says it wants to reward users by letting them buy into the company’s public listing. Some say it’s too risky—others say they won’t pay a company they’ve already given hours of free labor to.

Reddit Is Letting Power Users In on Its IPO. Not Everyone’s Buying::Reddit says it wants to reward users by letting them buy into the company’s public listing. Some say it’s too risky—others say they won’t pay a company they’ve already given hours of free labor to.

  • kraftpudding@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    9 months ago

    For me it’s the lack of interesting communities to browse. Everything active seems to be about, Linux, programming, politics, Star Trek or anime. Some midtier memes. That’s basically a list of subreddits I had blocked on reddit. And it’s all that exists here.

    Edit: I just counted. I’m subscribed to 179 communities. In the first 50 posts on my subscribed feed (basically 2 days worth of content), there are 7 communities featured. The first post that does not mention above topics and isn’t a meme is post no 15. In total, there are 4 posts in the first 50 posts that do not mention any of those topics. 2 of those are interesting to me. That’s just not a good enough ratio.

    • ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.netEnglish
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      8 months ago

      It’s unfortunate that your instance is still on lemmy 18.5, as the newer releases introduced ‘Scaled’ sorting as an option, which boosts the weight of posts from smaller communities, which can help inject some more interesting and varied content in your feed.

      But if it’s just that the ones you’re subscribed to aren’t posting enough interesting stuff, well, that is unfortunate. Lemmy is still in its early stages, which generally means it’s still just the nerds doing the early adopting. As it grows, it will likely get better in that regard.

      EDIT: Nevermind! Lemmy.world is now on 19.3 :D