I just got the email about this today. My account had maybe 30k comment karma and 2k post karma. I deleted all of my stuff and haven't been back to Reddit since last summer's fiasco. Guess they're not getting the uptake they expected on this bullshit, heh.
this post was submitted on 22 Feb 2024
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No and if I receive such an email it goes straight into the trash.
Yes and if you click through it asks you for a bunch of personal information to get "on the list."
I will bet all of my reddit karma that most people put on this list won't get any access, and the whole scam is to just get names and phone numbers from people.
how many active users do they really have if people using lemmy (and therefore spending less time on Reddit) are among the "top 75000" DAU?
That is a really good point. The first time I logged in since the exodus was to be able to see this DSP link, and that user still qualifies? Yikes.
I got the email too. Can't participate because I'm not a US resident, not that I particularly wanted to.
Reddit is gonna go to shit once they go public.
Yes, and it proves that Reddit has no clue who it's users are. I'm approaching my 10th cake day, have loads of posts under my belt, quite a few in my native language, and they still send me an offer only available to US citizens.
I love that my moderation and novelty bots that reddit broke received IPO email spam lol.
Tempting to short the stock and say $&@# you Spez!
lmao. I've got the message on three of my accounts so far, including one that I haven't used in years except to purge my data. Anyone who takes their offer is a fool: they're going to use those guys to claim there's demand before they all take the money and run far, far away.
Anyone know what wsb is saying?
Anyone know what wsb is saying?
Just looked, they're going nuts. CNBC has a clip mentioning that wsb could introduce volatility: "The site’s WallStreetBets chat room was the epicenter of the meme stock craze in 2021, as users urged one another to bid up stocks such as GameStop and AMC Entertainment."
I hope they actually do wreak havic.
They, themselves, listed it as a risk in their prospectus filing with the SEC:
Interest in our Class A common stock from retail and other individual investors, for reasons unrelated to our underlying business or macroeconomic or industry fundamentals, could result in increased volatility in the market price of our Class A common stock.
In addition to allocations made to retail investors by the underwriters and through our directed share program discussed elsewhere in this prospectus, we anticipate that a portion of the Class A common stock offered hereby will, at our request, be offered to retail investors through Fidelity Brokerage Services LLC, SoFi Securities, Inc., and Robinhood Financial LLC, as selling group members for this offering, through their respective brokerage platforms. These platforms are not affiliated with us. There may be risks associated with the use of such platforms that we cannot foresee, including risks related to the technology and operation of such platforms, and the publicity and the use of Reddit or social media by users of such platforms that we cannot control.
In 2021, the market prices and trading volumes of certain securities, such as GameStop Corp., AMC Entertainment Holdings, Inc., and other “meme” stocks, experienced extreme volatility. The rapid and substantial increases or decreases in the market prices of “meme” stocks may be unrelated to the respective issuer’s operating performance or macroeconomic or industry fundamentals, and the substantial increases may be significantly inconsistent with the risks and uncertainties that the issuer faces. This volatility has been attributed, in part, to strong and atypical retail investor interest, including as may be expressed on financial trading and other social media sites and online forums such as r/ wallstreetbets, one of our subreddits. Given the broad awareness and brand recognition of Reddit, including as a result of the popularity of r/ wallstreetbets among retail investors, and the direct access by retail investors to broadly available trading platforms, the market price and trading volume of our Class A common stock could experience extreme volatility for reasons unrelated to our underlying business or macroeconomic or industry fundamentals, which could cause you to lose all or part of your investment if you are unable to sell your shares at or above the initial offering price.
wsb could introduce volatility
So they're already preparing an alibi if/when things tank. [The Google licensing thing changes things a bit and I haven't processed it quite yet.]
All my suspended reddit logins are suddenly active again. I was banned for 'inciting violence' by some anti-outdoor cat nazis when I posted a picture of my cat with a rabbit it caught. This was over 3 years ago.
I'm going through removing all my content. F reddit. Scumbags suddenly unbanned my decade of content so they can train AI on it to enrich themselves.
You can't delete what's already backed up and can be reversed. It's a wasted effort.
Careful what you post online, kids.
I became active on reddit again recently to promote my game development. Hadn't been on since the API price changes. But with the recent updates to the AI scrapping my content, and the IPO, I think it's time to pull the plug for good. No idea how I'm supposed to get my stuff out there as an Indie dev, but reddit management can shove it up their ass.
I ended up getting their PM. I’m not touching their stock with a 20ft pole.
We all knew this day was coming. To think I’ve been redditing for 12 years, and not a single year will be added to that total
Yeah, I got it, I'm first tier thanks to my karma level, but we'll see where it goes.
Oh I didn't know there were tiers, whereabouts is that?
When you sign up, they explain that there are tiers based on karma or number of moderation actions.
Oh shit, I think that was announced right at the time of the exodus. When I signed up, there was no such thing. But my last alt had been created maybe 5-6 years ago.
They meant when you sign up for the DSP:
The tiers are (poorly) explained here:
Thanks for that, I either didn't see the same thing when I got the email, or otherwise just didn't scroll long enough (just went back to check, there's link to a FAQ which appears to be the same as your link).
But what I had in mind in my last comment was the contributor program, which looks like the "Reddit community programs" in one of the tables in your link. I had left in the June exodus, and it looks like the program was announced in Sep.
Yeah - I have no idea what the “MVP” community programs are. I also left during the exodus, but qualified through karma anyway.
Got it. Deleted it.
This is the way
Just out of curiosity, I poked my head in and saw they'd sent the same message directly to my Reddit account. "Oh, that's... gross," I thought. Then I looked around at the subs I used to frequent, and realized I felt like I was getting cancer from them.
It's amazing how much I don't miss Reddit.
Just out of curiosity, I poked my head in and saw they'd sent the same message directly to my Reddit account. "Oh, that's... gross," I thought
I’d rather have Reddit messaging stay in Reddit. In fact I never associated an email address with my account. They had no other way to contact me.
I wonder if, for example, an activist investor could swoop in and buy a fuckton of stock to sway stock holder votes and the like. Is that something that's detailed in IPO terms, all the shares that are "spoken for" and the percentages of those stakes?
There's class A shares, with 1-to-1 voting rights, class B shares that you can trade 10-to-1 for class A shares with voting rights, and class C shares with no voting rights. They haven't said, but I'm sure they're only going to offer class C shares.
Thanks for that. I am investment-dumb, but am trying to learn by paper trading and reading a ton of investopedia.
bet these shares come with no voting rights.
I’m sure it’s not a large enough percentage for the Reddit community to make any meaningful impact; the current owners wouldn’t want that.
They want to have their payday and get out, there's no way they'd release enough stock to let that happen. I'm sure this is some ploy to convince the most active people to keep it up so they look good.
And don’t forget, these active users and mods need to provide all their identity information. Makes sense on the stock purchasing part, but having real identities tied to profiles.. just what their AI models need.
Oh yeah. I'm not buying into that.