Reddit might once again be flirting with an IPO | TechCrunch
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The San Francisco-based company, co-founded by Steve Huffman, Aaron Swartz and Alexis Ohanian in 2005, could go public as early as Q1.

IPO = Initial Public Offering, where shareholders offer to sell their shares to the public, shifting a company from a “private company” (it belongs to me, you, and that guy) to a “public company” (it belongs to anyone who pays enough for the shares).

The userbase has been always touchy when it comes to IPO, and rightfully so; they know that the new owners will only care about squeezing the platform dry. As such, I predict a new flood of Redditfugees to Lemmy and Kbin.

    • Lvxferre@lemmy.mlOPM
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      1 year ago

      Are you saying reports do not link to the actual reported comment and I have to manually add the reference link myself?

      I’m not saying so. I offered DMs as an option because issues are often complex and depend on multiple instances of behaviour, while the report button will refer to a single piece of content and that’s it.

        • Lvxferre@lemmy.mlOPM
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          1 year ago

          I’m not sure on Kbin, but in Lemmy it’ll add a “report” entry with the following:

          • a link to the content being reported
          • who’s reporting it
          • an extremely short description on reason
          • [if solved] which mod/admin solved it

          It’s often simply not enough. In Reddit you’d handle more complex matters through modmail, it’s basically a DM “to the mod team”; Lemmy doesn’t have something like this yet, so my go-to approach would be to DM the head mod of the relevant comm.