blog.datastories.com
We analyzed 4 million data points to see what makes it to the front page of Reddit. Here’s what we…
11+ min · · What gets to the front page of Reddit? We collected 4,607,160 data points from Reddit and used machine learning to see what sticks on the front page. See results here · Shared by 51, including Esther Schindler, rogerverhoeven, Daniel Jörg, Mark Kaigwa, Matt Navarra, Alisa Silver, Jacob Jarnvall, Will Preston, David Pires, samz
HubSpot
How 10 Brands Use Reddit for Marketing
· To help you navigate the unique world of Reddit, we'll show you 10 examples of brands that have used the platform for marketing. · Shared by 53, including Gail Gardner, Harsha Mv, Melonie Dodaro, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Tony Hughes, rogerverhoeven, Carlos Gil
TechCrunch
Reddit CEO: TikTok is ‘fundamentally parasitic’
1 min · · TikTok is one of the hottest social media platforms but the CEO of Reddit had some harsh words for the popular app, calling it “fundamentally parasitic” at an event Wednesday. The comments from Reddit… · Shared by 150, including Stephanie A Kowalski, Damien Van Achter, Matt Navarra, Josh Olszewicz, rogerverhoeven, Katja Evertz, 𝚛𝚘𝚐𝚎𝚛, Johannes Lenz, Dan Primack, Marc R Gagné MAPP, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Mark Kaigwa
New York Magazine
‘I Believe My Time at Reddit Made the World a Worse Place’
15+ min · · A conversation with former Reddit product head Dan McComas on the problems with Reddit, Twitter, and the rest of the web. · Shared by 84, including Luis Roig | @darum@indieweb.social, Daniel Boos, Bjorn Larsen, Brad Brooks, Kat, Helmi, Chris Schultz✌️ & ❤️, ɐpuɐʎᴉW ᴉʇɐʍɥǝN, Thomas Power, rogerverhoeven
WIRED
The Inside Story of Reddit's Redesign
14+ min · · Goodbye, dystopian Craigslist. There's a new Reddit, and it's all grown up. · Shared by 203, including Stephanie A Kowalski, mastodon.social/@renestalder, Jane, Chris Schultz✌️ & ❤️, Matt Navarra, Mark Kaigwa, Zoe Scaman, Paweł Kuna, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Matteo Fogli, Fabricio Teixeira, Chris Messina, Oleg Baskov, Sachin Rekhi, Johannes Lenz, Aamir Raz, rogerverhoeven, Chintan Shah, Liliane Ferrari ™
Adweek
Reddit Expands Brand Safety Protections for Advertisers
2 min · · New measures stem from the platform’s partnership with Oracle. · Shared by 7, including rogerverhoeven, Matt Navarra, Real Marsha Wright®
MIT Technology Review
A GPT-3 bot posted comments on Reddit for a week and no one noticed
2 min · · Busted: A bot powered by OpenAI’s powerful GPT-3 language model has been unmasked after a week of posting comments on Reddit. Under the username /u/thegentlemetre, the bot was interacting with people… · Shared by 54, including Lord Travis Wright, rogerverhoeven, Marc R Gagné MAPP, Nico Müller 🇺🇦
The Guardian
AITA? How a Reddit forum posed the defining question of our age
7 min · · Every day, people leave their quandaries on the Reddit website – asking others to judge whether they were in the wrong. As religion wanes, are we crowdsourcing our ethics? · Shared by 15, including rogerverhoeven
reddit.com
35-50% of clicks on Reddit Ads are fraudulent
· We do a very simple check on each click we receive from Reddit Ads: 1. Does it load a background image, CSS or JS file? 2. Does it follow a... · Shared by 19, including Rand Fishkin, rogerverhoeven
TNW
Someone let a GPT-3 bot loose on Reddit — it didn’t end well
2 min · · A GPT-3-powered bot has been caught posing as a human on Reddit after more than a week of rampant posting about some seriously sensitive subjects. · Shared by 31, including Nicholas Diakopoulos, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Brian Ahier, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Nige Roberts-Willson, rogerverhoeven, AI
The Atlantic
Reddit Squashed QAnon by Accident
6 min · · Two years ago, Reddit had the internet’s biggest QAnon problem. Today, that problem is gone—but the company can’t really explain why. · Shared by 179, including Brad Brooks, rogerverhoeven, Wesley Fryer, Ph.D. 🌎🎙🚀 wesfryer.com/after, Carl Morris, Jane, Matthias Lampe
medium.com
An Introduction to Reddit’s ‘Slave Labour’ Subreddit
20+ min · · The popular page where people compete to work for less than minimum wage · Shared by 7, including rogerverhoeven, Gisele Navarro
Lifehacker
These Are Reddit's Most Popular 'Life Pro Tips' of All Time
19+ min · · The LifeProTips subreddit is a favorite among the Lifehacker staff. Like us, these folks are interested in finding and sharing the quirky little tricks that make life easier or better. Some are hacks… · Shared by 293, including Caden Jiang, rogerverhoeven, Lynda, Kevin Roberts