Chinese Censorship Company Invests Millions in Reddit - Sensationalist Headlines

I can't find anything anymore about Tencent's purchase into reddit.

Another example of the genuine dangers of a "free" market that a lot of people don't like to see.

Complaining about a free market destroying the free market is just like capitalists boasting about how communism only creates destitute dictatorships. It's just a way to pat yourself on the back without actually saying anything, and side-stepping the underlying causes. Who's free market? The United States? China? Is it really even a free-market issue when we're talking about a foreign government pushing censorship? If they weren't buying censorship on reddit directly, they'd be buying it through some other means. Reddit, or even corporations in general, is also not the only way they're pushing for foreign censorship. They're doing the same directly with governments through means such as "weaponized" tourism, or just good old fashioned lobbying.

Reddit users revolt after reports of Chinese tech giant Tencent'.. lmao

All the more reason to keep Facepunch running

garry says he want's FP to be more like reddit (or considers reddit the better platform), so I'm just waiting for him to announce Tencent investing in FP Studios.

Until garry sells out to Tencent

I thought he was going to shutdown for good?

Of course, but knowing how Garry really likes to make odd decisions, I wouldn't be surprised if tencent FP was a thing

For the life of me I can't figure out how Reddit got so huge. It's an ugly, poorly designed website that doesn't work correctly an embarrassingly large amount the time (which is funny because it's actually gotten better in recent years), it's difficult to follow conversations on it due to the terrible layout that amounts to a comment section on a media site, the moderation is awful and hypocritical and on top of that it's basically an echo chamber that's damn near impossible to have a meaningful conversation on (though to be fair this varies somewhat from subreddit to subreddit, but in general it's awful). The only worthwhile thing about it in my opinion is the fact that anyone can create a subreddit and moderate it themselves, so there's a wide array of topics to discuss, but the implementation and design is so bad it's almost not worth it for me beyond a few subreddits I enjoy. If there were a competitor that didn't do the awful "Youtube comments section but worse" layout I would be all over that.

I think it just comes down to the fact Reddit covers literally every single topic in the way it does. You can hop sub to sub easy and pretty much find any taste you want on the same account, I could go from taking cooking tips to talking about Football/Soccer, before going back to speaking about how cool Paradox games are while all of them have sizable active communities with their own moderation and rules. I'm trying to think of a way the old school forum format can do the same and it's hard to imagine now. The sheer easy of setting up your own sub was also appealing to many creators, why bother setting up and paying for a forum which will take ages to see traffic possibly and take some time to make if you don't want it looking shit, while you can just hop over to reddit, take a day or 2 setting up, have a audience of millions potentially at your doorstep while also not paying a single penny? That kinda stuff is too tempting to pass up, it simply slowly killed off the old forum format and sucked in the majority of people wanting to discuss things.

It's the late 19th Century ALL over again!

There is a competitor and exactly what you want: 4chan