Reddit isn’t profitable, despite having more than 50 million daily active users. In preparation for an IPO, CEO Steve Huffman put the platform’s API

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    1 year ago

    Reddit isn’t profitable, despite having a billion dollars in advertising dollars coming in every year? And someone thinks that spez should remain in charge?

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      1 year ago

      My gut reaction is that a multimedia website the size of reddit must be a juggernaut of server and hosting expenses.

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        1 year ago

        Idk but in my opinion describing red*it as a juggernaut for hosting multimedia is a bit far fetched, since their own image / video hosting platform is pretty shit and most of the media content is actually hosted on other platforms.

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          I didn’t mean to imply they were good at it, just that the volumes of data involved are certainly not trivial.