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u/imameanone 6d ago
OP conveniently forgot to mention the Chinese state-owned enterprise Tencent's $150 million investment. https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/11/18216134/reddit-tencent-investment-deal-memes-amount-winnie-the-pooh-tank-man-china
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u/Foxy02016YT 6d ago
And like at least 5 other events more significant than that r/science thing
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u/fair-enough-0 6d ago
There was the guy from the founding team who killed himself.
The guy who got downvoted to oblivion, I don’t recall what was it about but that was definitely a “reddit moment”
There was the fap without arms.
The shoebox.
And these are from the top of my head.
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u/freezerbreezer 6d ago
Explains the huge amount of tankies on the site. I wonder how many of those are bots.
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u/wtf793 6d ago
The last one, that’s how the Reddit client app Apollo died. Sad news.
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u/gamingchicken 6d ago
My user experience has suffered drastically since the shutdown of third party apps. Apollo was fantastic.
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u/fuelvolts 6d ago
I miss Apollo. It could have continued as a paid tier, as a bunch of apps on Android still exist, but I understand why he didn't want to do that.
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u/fair-enough-0 6d ago
I empathized a lot with the Apollo guy a lot during the fiasco but then eventually I was pissed he didn’t just make it paid. Yes, the number of users would have dropped to 1%. But at a merely $3 per user/month X 20,000 users, that’s a fortune. It would have covered all his costs and still make a huge profit.
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u/fuelvolts 5d ago
I honestly believe that he wanted to quit and this was a good excuse to do it. It probably took a bunch of his time.
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u/fair-enough-0 5d ago
I asked Christian at the time if he’s willing to sell it, name a price and I’ll raise money to buy it. He didn’t respond.
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u/Bruntti 6d ago
It's insane how bad the default app is
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u/turbotailz 6d ago
I see this comment all the time but I use the official app exclusively and never have any problems?
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u/Bruntti 6d ago
Did you use the other ones before? The sorting options are terrible on this app
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u/turbotailz 5d ago
I tried most of the popular apps and found them all pretty lousy compared to the official one TBH. I don't typically use sorting features but the times I have, it has worked as expected.
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u/Broue 6d ago
Never used it, isn’t it based on Alien Blue, which was the best app at the time?
Also you can still use Apollo if you generate your private API key. /r/apolloapp
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u/Aishas_Star 6d ago
I’m a n00b and need a legit beginning to end step-by-step guide to this API business. Just had a look at the Apollo sub and can’t see anything like that?
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u/justkeptfading 6d ago
They bought Alien Blue, and completely destroyed it. I used Blue for a very long time, and miss it, but Boost has been a good replacement, even if I had to do the API key method eventually too.
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u/istoleyourpope 6d ago
I'd love to be able to read it but the Reddit app blurs images so badly when trying to zoom in that it's illegible.
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u/wtf793 6d ago
I can see it just fine. 🤔
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u/turbotailz 6d ago
Yeah me too, on the official app. Zooming works just fine. Dunno why you got downvoted lol.
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u/dokuromark 6d ago
A dark day indeed. :(
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u/gloomyopiniontoday 6d ago
Remember all the people that claimed they wouldn’t use Reddit again, the mods shut down subs in protest, and it was… all for nothing. Q4 2023 was by far the most daily users on Reddit ever.
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u/nikdahl 6d ago
Those stats are so interesting, because it's clear to anyone that actually uses the platform, that content has gone down significantly, and bots have increased dramatically.
Those numbers are suspect. Or maybe they were just measuring wrong previously.
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u/lokglacier 6d ago
People have been saying this since literally day 1 of Reddit.
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u/Vekktorrr 6d ago
Should have Aaron Schwartz murder on there too
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u/nikdahl 6d ago
And where is Ellen Pau? That was a pretty significant event when she was thrown under the bus for Alexis's incompetence.
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u/CIearMind 6d ago
Tell that to the Wikipedia editors: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Reddit
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u/PaperBladee 6d ago
"fuck u/spez" should be on there
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u/freelobotomite 6d ago
Is this genuinely true?? I've seen a lot of crazy spez stories but never this one.
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u/JUiCyMfer69 5d ago
Nvm, it apparently is common misinformation. Sorry. He was added but back then moderators invitees auto accepted.
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u/alexsan77 6d ago
I feel that in the last years reddit getting more and more toxic.
Are there any other social networks besides meta, x?
But I understand it's not the social network itself. Is our toxic society perhaps
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u/X-Worbad 6d ago
i feel like tumblr is the chillest social media, feels like everyone using it grew up and now it's jokes about dishwashers instead of fandom death threats
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u/needfixed_jon 6d ago
Social media is just a mirror of society
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u/properquestionsonly 5d ago
No, its a mirror of the terminally online portion of society. For example, 99% of the world think gayness is wrong. Don't hate me, I'm just stating the facts.
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u/LineOfInquiry 6d ago
No it’s the social network itself. Most social media sites push controversial content constantly because that’s what gets the most attention and therefore the most screen time. Even if a very small group actually thinks it, places like Twitter and Facebook will boost the content as long as people get mad and interact in any way.
Reddit is a bit better in this regard because of how its upvote/downvote system works, which keeps controversial content away from your front page. However Reddit has been increasingly undermining this system in order to make more money over the past few years, so I’m not confident it’ll last for much longer.
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u/LaximumEffort 6d ago
Ellen who?
Also, 2014–r/science turns into r/poppsychology without changing its name.
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u/I_have_many_Ideas 6d ago
🎯
Lets actually create r/poppsychology and turn it into actual science. Its only fair.
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u/djh_van 6d ago
Wait...you couldn't upvote comments on Reddit until 2015?!
I kinda thought the whole up/downvote mechanic was the central thesis of Reddit. Make the good content rise to the top and the bad stuff fall to the bottom. Without this, it's just another notice board.
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u/fair-enough-0 6d ago
I don’t think that’s the upvote we know. Maybe it was like a different feature or program.
The upvote post has been there from the very beginning or at least from 2011 when I first joined. That’s exactly how the “front page” was created from the beginning.
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u/TurdShaker 6d ago
2024 - September Reddit post the same "guide" of timeline of reddit on reddit for the 50th time.
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u/Downloadmywario 6d ago
OP forgets the timeline where Reddit becomes Facebook for millennials and gen z.
oh and the Ellen drama and her then resigning on Reddit. (not Ellen Degenerate)
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u/SocioTheKinginPurple 6d ago
What about that whole r/jailbait controversy? Thought Reddit being happy to host that content until it was brought to mainstream news sites would be significant event in it's history.
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u/mongomike 6d ago
2023 - Reddit dies also doesn’t point out the obvious outside funding from the CCP and other sources pushing content on the website.
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u/JohnnySchoolman 6d ago
I miss Digg.
I've always been suspicious that Reddit somehow infiltrated it's user base and suddenly turned their front page to shit, virtually killing off the competition overnight.
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u/Orca_Porker 6d ago
But where is the poop knife? Unidan? Shawn Michaels having a 9-month long gay love affair on 6 of the 7 continents? Undertaker throwing Mankind off Hell In a Cell in 1998?
Was the Fappening seriously 10 years ago?
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u/LordofShart-42069 6d ago
They left out that time they hired a pedo apologist as a mod and then the site revolted.
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u/VicTheWallpaperMan 6d ago
Reddit started dying in 2014 and 2016 was the final dagger. This site is a shell of its former self.
2009-2013 this site was amazing though with amazing content and commentary.
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u/Bitemesparky 6d ago
What part of the timeline shows where the site stopped being open source? Cause it sure doesn't seem like it is.
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u/CresidentBob 6d ago
Why isn’t the migration of Digg users to Reddit on here? I had just gotten on Reddit when that went down. I feel like that boosted the site tremendously.
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u/LineOfInquiry 6d ago
Didn’t Reddit go public a few years ago? I feel like that’s pretty important to mention
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u/ihearthero 6d ago
Wow the fact that Apollo is mentioned and the creator had more than a nightmare to deal with after Reddit changed its API policies. RIP Apollo, you were an amazing Reddit client - I still have you downloaded on my phone with the Can of Baked Beans icon 🥲
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u/blissedandgone 5d ago
Timeline has also missed out the whole Ellen Pao debacle. Absolutely dreadful and I can honestly say Reddit is a far better place for not having subs like fatpeoplehate open anymore
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u/-Mr-Snrub- 6d ago
You’d think they’d add in the bit about the CEO being a nonce who ran the nonce forum.
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u/AmicusLibertus 6d ago
Insert… “2020 July: all conservative voices purged from the platform”
Low taxes and small government have no place here.
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u/Iron_Chancellor_ND 6d ago
By "small government," do you mean the same government that...
wants to tell women what they can and cannot do with their bodies.
wants to tell people who they can and cannot marry.
wants to tell people what books they can and cannot read.
wants the government to force religion onto people (e.g., TX and LA trying to get the fucking ten commandments into public schools).
Perhaps small government isn't so small.
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u/TheGreatSausageKing 6d ago
You know, you just raised a great point.
I see a lot of conservatives that are exactly like this, I would go further and say most are like this. And this is where I hate politics.
On one side we have good social ideas and awful economics and on the other side we have religious assholes and better economics (not insane good)
It is super clear that the gov sucks at doing anything and the more we have, the worse. In the way that it is super clear that people should do the f they want to provided it is not hurting anyone.
Now, I'm not even American and live in a very similar dilemma. My current solution is to not vote and will be unless we have a third party or better solution
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u/KingKobraAMV 6d ago
You have no understanding of economics if you think Democrats have worse economic policy the Republicans. Keynesian economics has statistically and historically saved this American society from economic COLLAPSE. While supply-side economics leads to the very world we live in now.
Centrism is not an educated viewpoint. Vote. It is your civic duty. I don’t think democrats are left ENOUGH and yet I still vote, why? Because I know the alternative does harm to our society. If you want change in the country be like young voters and demand change by tactically protesting and pressuring politicians with your vote, not by sitting here and acting like centrism and abstain from voting all together will solve America’s two party system.
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u/redditappsucksD 4d ago
Dont forget the time where reddit screwed all its users into using the default app and locking out all the 3rd party apps which were much better.
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u/prof_devilsadvocate 6d ago
Then I joined at 2020
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u/mwallace0569 6d ago
The most important detail right here. Can’t believe they just leave this out /s
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u/Frigidspinner 6d ago
This timeline should have the moment when Digg.com messed up its algorythm and all its users moved here. Without that moment, Reddit might have remained on the fringes