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As requested, I'm posting the full text of the email into this post body. I hope it's screen reader friendly:

u/USERNAME,

tl;dr – you’re invited to a special program that lets redditors purchase stock at the same price as institutional investors when we IPO. Details about eligibility and next steps follow. This (long, dense) email has all the info we can provide due to legal restrictions.

As you may have heard, Reddit has taken steps toward becoming a publicly traded company with the initial public filing of our registration statement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on February 22, 2024. Yes, it’s happening.

And because you have helped make Reddit what it is today, you now have the opportunity to become Reddit owners at the same price as institutional investors.

We’re offering a Directed Share Program (“DSP”) that invites eligible users and moderators who have contributed to Reddit to participate in our initial public offering (“IPO”). (Including you!) Program Requirements While being selected to pre-register is the first step, there are certain legal and regulatory requirements to participate in the DSP that are outside of Reddit’s control. Bear with us here…

To be eligible for the DSP, you must: • Be a current U.S. resident; o You will be asked to provide the DSP Administrator a valid social security or permanent resident number, along with other personal information. Reddit will not have access to this data. o Please note that U.S. residents using a VPN may face application limitations if the VPN locates them in certain non-U.S. jurisdictions. • Be at least 18 years old; • Provide your full legal name and an email address; • Not be a current or former Reddit employee (FTE). When the DSP launches (a few weeks after pre-registration ends), individuals who have been confirmed for the program will be contacted by our external DSP Administrator. You will then be asked to provide additional information securely to the DSP Administrator to confirm your eligibility. How to pre-register The number of people who can participate in the DSP is limited; we will offer this opportunity to as many redditors as we are able to accommodate. If capacity is reached before the deadline, you will be added to the waitlist. Based on demand, we may also limit the number of shares available.

If you are interested in being part of Reddit’s DSP, please go to https://reddit.com/dsp on desktop to complete the pre-registration form. If you are one of the confirmed participants, we will follow up with an email with more details in the coming weeks. You can also refer to the Frequently Asked Questions for more information. Due to regulatory restrictions (yeah… we know…) we are not able to respond to further inquiries or questions.

Pre-registering does not guarantee that you will be invited or able to participate in the DSP; it also does not obligate you to purchase shares.

As with any investment opportunity, you should make an individual decision based on your own personal circumstances and risk tolerance. Therefore, we urge you to review the preliminary prospectus, when available, before deciding whether to invest in Reddit.

The deadline for pre-registering for the DSP is March 5, 2024. If capacity is reached before the deadline, you will be added to the waitlist. What happens next? While there won’t be a confirmation email immediately after you pre-register, everyone who pre-registers will receive an email in the coming weeks from “[email protected]”, telling them whether they can proceed with the next steps for the DSP.

This is an automated message (beep, boop, beep) and does not receive replies. Please refer to the FAQ for more information. Per our lawyercats, we are not able to respond to further inquiries or questions. Prospectus and Important Disclosures The offering will be made only by means of a prospectus. When available, a copy of the preliminary prospectus related to the offering may be obtained from: Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC, Prospectus Department, 180 Varick Street, New York, New York 10014, or email: [email protected]; Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC, Attention: Prospectus Department, 200 West Street, New York, New York 10282, telephone: 1-866-471-2526, facsimile: 212-902-9316, or email: [email protected]; J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, Attention:c/o Broadridge Financial Solutions, 1155 Long Island Avenue, Edgewood, New York 11717, telephone: 1-866-803-9204, or email: [email protected]; and BofA Securities, Inc., NC1-022-02-25, 201 North Tryon Street, Charlotte, North Carolina 28255-0001, Attention: Prospectus Department, telephone: 1-800-294-1322, or email: [email protected].

A registration statement relating to these securities has been filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission but has not yet become effective. These securities may not be sold nor may offers to buy be accepted prior to the time the registration statement becomes effective. This notification shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy these securities, nor shall there be any sale of these securities in any state or jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation, or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such state or jurisdiction.

No offer to buy the securities can be accepted and no part of the purchase price can be received until the registration statement has become effective, and any such offer may be withdrawn or revoked, without obligation or commitment of any kind, at any time prior to the notice of its acceptance given after the effective date. An indication of interest in response to this notification will involve no obligation or commitment of any kind.

You are receiving this email because a Reddit account, USERNAME, is registered to this email address. 548 Market St., #16093, San Francisco, CA 94104–5401

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

You might want to crosspost your story to [email protected]. But if you do that be clever with your phrasing so as to not seem to be asking for advice, but rather for information. E.g. is there any case law for this situation..

(I’m assuming you’re in the UK because other commenters focused on UK law)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (2 children)

It cheeses my beans so goram much that they took a perfectly good web site and made it terrible so they could sell it to "the public", notionally the same people who were using the site!!!

I can only conclude that this is some kind of scam and actually most of the thing is going to end up owned by deliberately nebulous "institutional investors" and not the community members who constitute and deserve ownership of the community. Or even the people at Reddit Inc. who did the work of making the thing.

DAE socialism?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I can only conclude that this is some kind of scam

That depends on your framing.

Is it a legitimate attempt to sell shares? Absolutely. Completely legal, disregarding OP's claim of a GDPR violation. There might be wiggle-room to suggest this is some flavor of price manipulation, but I'm not a lawyer or SEC investigator. In order to IPO, there's a compliance framework that makes this functionally identical to any other IPO on the market.

Are some people who buy this IPO going to be left holding the bag? In a round-about "we're all playing the same game, but also not" way, yes. For an instant, people will be holding shares in Reddit at the IPO price, and speculation on value will drive that up on the back of the IPO itself. It might plummet later the same day, it may not. But what is going to really burn people is when the primary shareholders "cash out" and sell a huge chunk of that stock. That usually has the effect of signaling that the company isn't worth what it was anymore. It's a gamble where the house can destroy your bid before you can manage to pawn your chips off onto the next guy.

From a spectator standpoint, where this may get interesting is where Reddit IPO intersects with r/wallstreetbets.

Edit: dividends are also a thing, but I never hear about that outside of what mutual funds and 401ks are up to. As someone who has no idea how Reddit does or can actually make money, I'm going to guess that's not going to be a benefit of being a long-term shareholder.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

Don’t give websites your email, what a silly thing to do

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (3 children)

They sent one to my deleted account that was literally called GDPR_Violation lol

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

There really needs to be a resource where data subjects can pool their evidence and collaborate on GDPR actions against common data controllers.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

0 fucks given

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (5 children)

I haven't used my reddit account the API change, beyond maybe 3 or 4 comments. I got an invite. How the fuck was I one of their top 35k most active users? Seems like their site isnt nearly as active as they're claiming

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

I too got an email and haven’t posted at all since the API change.

If I really was in the top 35k before that, then at least I know quitting Reddit made some kind of dent in their content.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

Did you post a lot? Do you have email notifications turned on?

My old account has... a lot (six digits worth), of comment karma. But I think I posted a grand total of three times in the last ten years or so. I also have notifications turned off. So, no IPO notification for me.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

I got the email, also... And like you, I've not used reddit since the api BS. I've not logged in, commented or anything since just before sync stopped working.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (3 children)

It's based in Karma. Since I had over 200k I was invited in the first group even though I hadn't logged in since the change.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

ah i thought it was based on activity (though Reddit wrongly likes to correlate the two)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

People should express interest, and go through whatever steps just short of actually buying

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I have 40k karma on an 12 year old account and was invited. Obviously not buying that sit tho

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

There are a couple other factors. Were you a mod? Did you ever participate in one of reddit's community programs like the Helper Program or Mod Council?

The 3 criteria are MVP status, which is based on participation in certain programs, Karma, or Mod Actions.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

Just chiming in, 34k karma (only 4 post karma) and haven't posted for 9 months. Never a mod. I also got the IPO offer. Think I was gifted gold one time.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah I just got an invite as well and I haven't logged in since the protest that brought the first wave of us here. So karma has to be a deciding factor, I had over 100k I think so that would be the only reason I got an invite.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

100k is the threshold for the second round of invitations.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

They must be into round 4, I have never been a mod.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

Karma was a relevant factor. I guess if yoi had a good amount of karma it may have contributed to it.

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