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Haha!
I never even had a Reddit account, and was always a lurker. Thanks to Lemmy, I actually want an account.
I wonder if this is the motivation behind removing the auth-gate on mobile. Previously, if I browsed the mobile site on my phone in a non-signed-in state (I deleted my account), I could view 5-8 top-level comments and that's it. Clicking "Show more comments" or trying to expand child comments would show a modal asking me to sign in or download the app.
That changed last week along with a complete rework of the mobile site. I'm betting that they saw a huge increase in unauthenticated mobile users with a far below-average time-on-site metric and decided to open it up.
Overall, I appreciate the change because I still lurk in many of the niche subs that I still haven't found a good replacement for. self-hosted, datahoarder, webdev, 3dprinting, et al. have analogs here, but the content isn't as deep.
fuck reddit
Is it wrong that I really really hope he makes less than $6 million out of this whole deal in the end? It just seems fitting...
$6 million
Why that amount? I'm guessing I'm missing some backstory.
That's about how much he got out of selling Reddit to Conde Nast, which he was unhappy about after seeing the hundreds of millions other people got for selling their platforms like Myspace.
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