Listen to Steve Huffman tell the story of how Reddit got started

Re:Listen to Steve Huffman tell the story of how Reddit got ... by vlovich123 on Sunday April 23, 2023 @01:27PM (#35678349)

Step 1: convince your main competitor to piss of its entire user base.

Step 2: ? <- could be interesting to see if they did something special here

Step 3: get Obama and other major celebrities to establish you as a media company brand.

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Re:Listen to Steve Huffman tell the story of how Reddit got ... by pbhjpbhj on Sunday April 23, 2023 @02:14PM (#35678917)

Step 2 probably has a bunch of stuff, but includes:

They posted content using fake accounts to stimulate adoption.

To my recollection they allowed a lot of skeevy (illegal and/or immoral) content to proliferate.

I think they probably ran at a loss for a long time; leaning heavily on volunteer personnel.

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Re:Listen to Steve Huffman tell the story of how Reddit got ... by nanidin on Sunday April 23, 2023 @10:34PM (#35683057)

Step 2 for a Reddit clone/competitor would be much easier and more convincing given the current state of LLM’s.

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Re:Listen to Steve Huffman tell the story of how Reddit got ... by flomo on Sunday April 23, 2023 @02:20PM (#35678985)

One take I heard is Digg was actively combating vote manipulation, while on Reddit it was easy to get RonPaul/etc content onto the homepage. So the migration was memed to some extent.

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