Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3B valuation
I've been a fan of Reddit for a very long time (as the amount of data science work I've done with their data can attest to), but lately it seems like the incentives between Reddit as a business and Reddit as a community leader are not aligned, and that is a problem.<p>The increasing amount of dark patterns Reddit has been employing lately is concerning. (recent example: Reddit now gates content in mobile Safari to push users to the app: <a href="https://twitter.com/minimaxir/status/1086002848926593025" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/minimaxir/status/1086002848926593025</a> )<p>That said, it seems like the <i>really bad</i> dark patterns I reported 7 months ago (<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17446841" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17446841</a>) no longer appear to be in place.