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[-] voracitude@lemmy.world 371 points 9 months ago

I'm sure it's nothing and everything is fine. Now, who wants to buy some of this Reddit stock? I'll cut you a special deal so you don't miss out! ... Anyone?

[-] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 164 points 9 months ago

I was interested in buying a share just to be in for the ride, but then they asked for my real name to be associated with my handle. It's like they never understood what reddit was about at all.

[-] Neon@lemmy.world 58 points 9 months ago

I got a Message offering me to buy too. In the Message it says i need to be a permanent Resident of the US.

Buddy, you had me enter my Country when i created the Account. You know full-well I'm from the EU. Why not just sort me out of the Mailing-list?

[-] Ottomateeverything@lemmy.world 71 points 9 months ago

Why not just sort me out of the Mailing-list?

Because that would cost their time instead of yours

[-] appel@lemmy.ml 9 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Perhaps you moved from Europe to the States in the interim like I did.

Edit to add: sorry if this came off as snarky, was not my intention. Just wanted to point out that it's not always so clear-cut. I created my Reddit account in 2008 when I lived in the Netherlands. Then I moved to the US in 2016 and became a citizen in 2019.

[-] Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 35 points 9 months ago

"We have never made a profit and may never make a profit. Please buy our stock."

[-] YourAvgMortal@lemmy.world 23 points 9 months ago

A special deal? Doesn’t the message basically say “give us your data so you maybe have a chance at buying stock at full price, and be thankful we’re not marking it up”?

[-] marcos@lemmy.world 20 points 9 months ago

Well, at IPO price. A couple of decades ago, that used to mean it was discounted. Nowadays, it doesn't, but not everybody knows that.

[-] fluxion@lemmy.world 10 points 9 months ago

Probably part of some side grift to sell more information to data brokers

[-] GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip 13 points 9 months ago

The whole idea is a grift. They are directly appealing to people who largely should not be buying shares due to their financial situation and are a lot less critical of the pretty poor numbers they published than professional ~~exploiters~~ investors will be.

Obviously this is done in hopes of selling more shares and binding users long term, though that will probably just accelerate the enshittification because suddenly the last remaining power users are turned into shareholders instead

[-] fluxion@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago

Right but the whole "give us all your info and MAYBE you can buy stock" is the part that sounds like a secondary grift. If they wanted to pump they could just have some set amount and do a first come first serve right off the bat.

[-] Sabata11792@kbin.social 5 points 9 months ago
[-] hddsx@lemmy.ca 4 points 9 months ago
[-] Neon@lemmy.world 9 points 9 months ago

that would be called "shorting" and it totally is a thing.

[-] hddsx@lemmy.ca 11 points 9 months ago

Look, I’m not trying to short okay? I’m sure Reddit will do great. Just let me borrow your stock and I’ll make sure you have it back in like 6 months or so

Yeah, the big short is even a movie! One positive i got from hanging around stonks, amc and gme subs was how much i learned about how fucked the stock market is.

Waaaaay more fucked, gamified, and straight up broken than even the most cynical citizen thinks.

[-] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 9 months ago

They actually tweaked the upbote/down vote stuff back then to stop actually showing the true amount of upvotes and down votes, directly. They started fuzzing votes to supposedly help prevent manipulation.

[-] p5yk0t1km1r4ge@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

The timing DOES seem Auspicious...

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