• hh93@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Also for interaction - number of active users is a very important metric - and with something like this they basically guarantee that a lot of users are checking very regularly - and the investors for the IPO probably will never see that place

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      1 year ago

      Maybe some investors are that lazy, but I doubt it’s most. You can Google “reddit” right now and multiple articles come up about what’s going on with r/place, that’s pretty much the least you can do before investing in a company

    • Boz (he/him)@lemmy.one
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      1 year ago

      They will if they check the news coverage on Reddit as part of their research. (Or, more likely, have their staff do it for them).