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The Reddits (6 minute read) (www.ycombinator.com)

submitted 8 months ago by Brkdncr@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Reddit was one of the reasons Y Combinator was started. This post tells the story of how the site came to be. Despite being rejected in the first round for their food delivery app idea, Reddit's founders were offered funding after agreeing to work on a project that would eventually become Reddit. The project was launched on a quick schedule. It had a core set of real users after just a few weeks. Reddit is now a fundamentally useful tool that seems almost unkillable.

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[–] db2@lemmy.world 26 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Reddit is now a fundamentally useful tool that seems almost unkillable.

Steve Huffman: Hold my beer.

[–] NineMileTower@lemmy.world 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Dude, no one is leaving Reddit. I know I’ll get downloaded because that’s the circle jerk here but Reddit still has a huge amount of active users and frankly there is no good alternative yet.

[–] db2@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago

I'm sure that's some kind of logical fallacy.. argumentum ad populum? I don't know.

But yeah I'm sure some people stuck around. They're outnumbered by bots and other fake accounts now though. The only thing reddit has today that's worth a shit is what it had before which is why Pinhead Steve sold the data.. which is getting reddit investigated by the government now too.

Well over a decade there and I left. Everything I had put in to it was overwritten and then deleted before that, all you'll find now is a few days worth of calling MicroSteve out.