The first is we get to see how people behave when nobody's watching. Reddit is public, but it feels private. And what we see is that people are neighborly, the way they are in a city.
- Wow. - Because there's no... Those systems... I mean, you would expect that they have some protection or, like, an automatic forwarding, but Reddit-style social network. And a bunch of people take screenshots of those agents doing things like, Scheming against humans. And
mean Platner was under scrutiny and was running behind other Democratic candidates not just because of scrutiny out of nowhere but because of former Reddit post a a a tat- a tattoo that he seemingly uh there were conflicting timelines about whether he knew it was linked to Nazism or not and previous allegations of infidelity. Like there are people who see those questions of
forcible sexual assault, rape, or an action a criminal act like that, you know, I'm I'm less concerned with past Reddit posts since he's apologized for it and said he's learned. I'm less concerned with with with, you know, internet history and and Terry McAuliffe is another example of this. When you apologize and say I could have done this better, I
And so they ended up throwing this party and sponsoring it. Reddit is a really fun example because in the Reddit case, it was-- original Reddit, there was no subreddits.
You send a gift anonymously to someone that you're given. Reddit's not entirely original, right?
You send a gift anonymously to someone that you're given. Reddit had enough of a company to it.
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What you were supposed to do is go to the coffeehouse and read all the stuff that they had, which would be news books and pamphlets Reddit I put in that category as well.
This is the model we use for Reddit. On Reddit, you can support, you can share a few laughs, you can learn about things. There’s coffee shops, there’s sports bars, there’s a few weird basements.
The stage uses likes and algorithms to decide what to put in front of you. On Reddit, we use the upvote and the downvote. The upvote you understand -- the downvote is very important.
and the moral advice is constantly gassing people up and affirming them? On Reddit, you get tough love, but that is what a community is and that's where the values come from. And we believe this is essential.
So it was a lot of hopping on Google and figuring out, how could I do this? Or Reddit was a huge, I think, resource for me too. And so that's, I think it was just this overall curiosity that led me to basically kind of figure it out all
And as you can see, it's incandescent. That reddish color is incandescence from the lava's heat, which at this point is about 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit, so four times hotter than the hottest broil setting on most ovens. And it is incredible to be that close to something this powerful and this raw, and that's
And so what we also think happens in this process is that somehow all of the young, hot stars die out, and you're left with all the more long-lived, older reddish stars that I was talking about at the beginning. But crucially, you haven't formed more of the newer, bigger stars that don't live as long in this merger.
They co-evolve. And so astronomers have used this evidence to say, well, if they evolve together, then this idea of this process of feedback a redder color, for example.
I think that's one that's little known, as well. So Reddit was acquired just more than a year after it was created. It was acquired by Condé Nast whose parent company is Advance Publications.
Twitter, obviously, is grappling with it. And Reddit has a fraction of the employees as those companies. It only has 400 and some.
document it-- but researchers have found that the simple act of cutting off those five first subreddits has improved the quality of speech on Reddit throughout the site. You think of all this uncivil, dis-civil discourse that's been plaguing the internet right now, it actually demonstrably improved that
You send a gift anonymously to someone that you're given. And Reddit was-- I think even two years ago-- even one year ago,
You send a gift anonymously to someone that you're given. And redditors themselves are very used to this really tight design where the site is cluttered, and it's kind of ugly, and they loved it for that.
You send a gift anonymously to someone that you're given. So Reddit's opened up the door for brands to post, for media companies to kind of get involved more overtly.
You send a gift anonymously to someone that you're given. Favorite Reddit scandal you covered?
Yes? The reddest one. The reddest one. Why do we have red one? We have a red one here.
So I did what I'm sure any of you would do and I had Reddit crowd-source the rest of this for me. Hey Reddit, what are some of the weird things your parents told you? P.S., write my book for me.
So I would love for you guys to introduce yourselves and tell us a little bit about the character that you play. I'm Randy Redd . I play Buddy. Buddy is one of the older patrons in the bar-- the bitter, old daddy.
There’s coffee shops, there’s sports bars, there’s a few weird basements. But the communities on Reddit are like the neighborhoods. They're naturally forming and they have their distinct cultures and values and vibes.
We see that self-governance works amazingly well. What we say at Reddit is the only thing that scales with people is people. So all of our communities, they write their own rules on Reddit.
You can go to an AI search and ask, what's the best way to cook rice and get an answer. You can go to Reddit and get 100 answers, but sometimes you just need one and that's fine. But the more automated and summarized and sanitized and manicured that the rest of the internet becomes,
providing that labor for free. So like a Redditor is not being paid for their step-by-step walkthrough of how to deal with your air fryer, right? But actually 15 10 years ago, 15 years ago, that person actually could have had
what voters in Maine believe. And if you want to say that voters in Maine are are are more willing than other parts of the country to overlook past Reddit comments that were offensive and racist, then like that's that's the truth. But, my political project is about winning power. I care about winning power, and I
Are we really thinking about this fairly? A site like Reddit does it probably better than a site like X right now. But it's such an important act just to notice the people who are actually spreading amazingness, goodness, laughter, like the upside of humanity,
And so they ended up throwing this party and sponsoring it. Teeing you up for Reddit there, right?
So the more reddish stuff is more recent work.
And we find a Reddit thread that convinces us we're going to die.
And then the reddish color in this image is the radio image that I showed you.
And then people on Reddit are like, it's CGI.
Somebody posted on Reddit a couple of years ago a question.
There were-- before Reddit-- all these weird subgroups.
I was an Otis Redding fan.
So the quote is, "Being in love with someone who has a constantly expanding and mostly beautiful multiple personality disorder." Yes. How would you describe Reddit? Well, in standard interviews, for folks who actually have no clue about Reddit, I say, it's sort of a mirror of the entire internet.
subreddit or something, it would send so much traffic. We called it the Reddit hug of death that it would cripple our servers, but, you know, give so much traffic. So I wanted to know more about Reddit.
It means something. It means, like, lovely creature of the sea. And someone posted to Reddit, hey, Greenpeace is doing this campaign to name a whale. Let's name him Mr. Splashy Pants.
I'm a business journalist. The story of Reddit sustaining itself through the years was just consistently the most surprising and fascinating story to me. I think that's one that's little known, as well.
And I mean, I-- a funny-- a little known fact about this-- Steve Hoffman, who's the CEO of Reddit now, was not at Reddit at the time. And he told me later, much, much later, when I was asking him about this-- he said he was watching from afar.
These guys were all his friends. But they turned on Reddit Gold. And I said, well, it worked though.
You send a gift anonymously to someone that you're given. can just get on Reddit and say, AMA, I had a bellybutton transplant.
You send a gift anonymously to someone that you're given. So for Reddit to turn into more than just kind of a melting pot for the stuff of the internet and a virality engine,
You send a gift anonymously to someone that you're given. So why did Reddit succeed where others before it had failed?
You send a gift anonymously to someone that you're given. And the way Reddit is set up with moderators--