Is it even worth anything to investors anymore at this point? Huffman kind of destroyed any faith anyone had in Reddit, seems like it’s just going to slowly turn into an ad distribution service to scam people who don’t know any better lol
I’ve said myself that reddit’s biggest assets were it’s passionate userbase and it’s trove of commentary. But I remember reading a comment, years ago now, that reddit’s biggest asset was it’s profile data. They know what communities you visited, and which you were most passionate about. They know what specific topics and keywords got you involved in a conversation. They know the content that you upvote and that you downvote. They know roughly where you live, what times you’re online. They probably have a decent idea of your job and how much you earn. They data is worth something to data brokers, and it wouldn’t surprise me if they start selling it after the IPO.
There’s always some value to vultures (and vulture capital) that want to pick over the pieces. It might even still have meaningful value as an ongoing social media platform. But the expected IPO value has dropped heavily in the past few years, and is likely to keep dropping. This really isn’t because of anything at Reddit, but of the financial markets in general.
The big question is how will investors feel about the potential for returns, i.e. revenues. I expect to see (well, read about) a whole lot of enshittification over there. Much more data mining, ads, freemium features, etc.
Is it even worth anything to investors anymore at this point? Huffman kind of destroyed any faith anyone had in Reddit, seems like it’s just going to slowly turn into an ad distribution service to scam people who don’t know any better lol
Well yeah, but that’s worth a lot.
I’ve said myself that reddit’s biggest assets were it’s passionate userbase and it’s trove of commentary. But I remember reading a comment, years ago now, that reddit’s biggest asset was it’s profile data. They know what communities you visited, and which you were most passionate about. They know what specific topics and keywords got you involved in a conversation. They know the content that you upvote and that you downvote. They know roughly where you live, what times you’re online. They probably have a decent idea of your job and how much you earn. They data is worth something to data brokers, and it wouldn’t surprise me if they start selling it after the IPO.
There’s always some value to vultures (and vulture capital) that want to pick over the pieces. It might even still have meaningful value as an ongoing social media platform. But the expected IPO value has dropped heavily in the past few years, and is likely to keep dropping. This really isn’t because of anything at Reddit, but of the financial markets in general.
The big question is how will investors feel about the potential for returns, i.e. revenues. I expect to see (well, read about) a whole lot of enshittification over there. Much more data mining, ads, freemium features, etc.