I know it has become a massive cliche to say this and I usually don't engage in this conversation, but I think in this case it's legitimate - Reddit has 1,800 employees?! How?! I worked at a well-known mid-size tech company that had around 15 consumer and B2B products and employed 2,000 people and it felt bloated.
Likely sales, teams to attract advertisers in each region (including AMAs, sub-editor prizes, etc.) Then moderation, legal, PR and abuse report handling.
This is one of the most common confusion that folks does to related their own experience with some regional/national tech company in comparison with global tech products with millions of users plus multiple juriscitions and regional aspects that needs to be taken in consideration.
Good luck trying to deal with regional ad sales, content moderation, legal, account management without a local team.
The writing is on the wall, it will go as soon as the current mess quiets down (if it does). I don't think that I will even wait it out, the trust has been broken.
And make 25% of the volunteer mods soft-quite/rage-quit.
The people who most need tools & help to make Reddit a good place are just getting totally completely hosed by Reddit's API changes. All around the internet, we're seeing so many new moats & fief-makings.
Cause then they can ban whoever they want that doesn't agree with them. Also, I'm sure that some of the powermods get paid to promote posts on their subreddit.
spend enough time in a (virtual) location and you might want to help improve the place/keep it tidy, or at least help the current owners/maintainers because you enjoy spending time there.
For better or worse a lot of us have been passionate about the sub-communities we were involved in and we thought that our contributions were valued by the site.
Look at nostr. The beauty of being a protocol that shapes into twitter-style, forum-style, blog or upvotting reddit with the same text protocol underneath.
I guess the big innovation is owning your data and identity for a change. Those who invested in reddit for decades are now without chance to save their own data, at least without a way to move it elsewhere public.
For me, hopefully nothing. I did get some value out of reading and participating in discussions there, but I don't think it makes up for all the time spent.
There is no one to be laid off. This feature in particular was contracted to eastern European devs through some German consultancies;) It was cheap though.
At the end we all suffer from the loss of information. In the past we had forums where long articles incl how-to were pinned and online for years. Today we might find about 20-30 discussions all saying the same thing flooded with trash.
Another platform after reddit will just dilute it even further.
The death of forums and knowledge for shortterm ad-revenue driven success.
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[ 3.1 ms ] story [ 65.7 ms ] threadSo still a net increase in total workforce? Is this just restructuring? Like reducing IT positions and hiring more in marketing or vice versa?
So alone your glibal teams for infra alone should be at least 100
This is one of the most common confusion that folks does to related their own experience with some regional/national tech company in comparison with global tech products with millions of users plus multiple juriscitions and regional aspects that needs to be taken in consideration.
Good luck trying to deal with regional ad sales, content moderation, legal, account management without a local team.
The people who most need tools & help to make Reddit a good place are just getting totally completely hosed by Reddit's API changes. All around the internet, we're seeing so many new moats & fief-makings.
Or it can be just some ego/power trip.
I guess the big innovation is owning your data and identity for a change. Those who invested in reddit for decades are now without chance to save their own data, at least without a way to move it elsewhere public.
Another platform after reddit will just dilute it even further. The death of forums and knowledge for shortterm ad-revenue driven success.