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  • Muddimation
    Muddimation (@Muddimation) reported

    there was no easy way to truly fix the lore without getting rid of most of it. From there, I had taken my time completely rewriting the lore, and even decided to bring back some projects I initially scrapped (such as Craftons and Dots if you found this account from my Reddit-

  • yoohgurt
    nale (@yoohgurt) reported

    spotify down and reddit search about spotify is also down..?

  • theAIdreamer
    iamfaheem (@theAIdreamer) reported

    so I built Buddy. it scans the internet for people who are already expressing the exact problem your product solves. X. Reddit. forums. LinkedIn. wherever the conversation is happening. it finds them. so you don't have to.

  • maus_chan
    ⊹⊱•••《 𝕂𝕀𝔸 》•••⊰⊹ (@maus_chan) reported

    @Kusabiyuki @Youni_SSJ2 @passport_herb reddit is down the hall

  • 0xM0rtal
    Swagat (@0xM0rtal) reported

    @LocalBateman Every Reddit answer starts with ‘I had this exact problem,’ and somehow that random person ends up saving the day.

  • someotherdude99
    SomeOtherDude999 (@someotherdude99) reported

    @LasagneWest @Novacorps007 @HomesteadAmeric I'm glad you said this because now it is obvious you think exposing terrible parenting is worse than getting children addicted to screens. You have no solutions, you only like to play the foil like a reddit dweeb.

  • annimatune
    annimatune♡ (anni/seven) (@annimatune) reported

    after finishing the rewrite i am personally just thinking of joining with a burner acc on discord and just stepping down from reddit for good. it used to be fun but i dont think anyone really cares what i do, sorry i cant get over that ******* feeling sometimjes

  • WillTheSkillet2
    Will 🍳 (@WillTheSkillet2) reported

    @statmuse Reddit benched him for Luka’s waterboy down 3 with the game on the line

  • lednic_ky
    andrej (@lednic_ky) reported

    @strzibnyj Communities on @X were kinda like Reddit and now they are removed so if you create your own version of it I think you would eventually run into same problems.

  • miserymanif3st
    misery is watching star wars (@miserymanif3st) reported

    @f7818992 Reddit is down the hall and too the left

  • MatijaMaric5
    Kiseloo (@MatijaMaric5) reported

    @Naowhxd I made a reddit post about exactly that and none agreed with me lol . I suggested to remove def mitigation , like on bear we macro it and forget about it. They should def buff aoe abilities like trash for other tanks cuz threat is still a issue sometimes

  • devXritesh
    Ritesh Roushan (@devXritesh) reported

    Two types of developers: Type A: “My app is working fine, I checked it this morning.” Type B: “My app pages me the second something breaks.” Type A finds out their site is down from a Reddit comment. Type B sleeps peacefully because the system auto-recovered and alerted them. Which one are you right now? Be brutally honest 👇

  • realarmaansidhu
    Armaan Sidhu (@realarmaansidhu) reported

    That image has been on Facebook, Reddit, and X since December 2025. The black specks are mouse droppings. The "what is this" post is the third or fourth engagement format being recycled. Stolen image from an actual pest concern Facebook group, wrapped in feigned confusion, reposted across viral aggregators. The poster never had the mice. The poster doesn't have the sink. The post had 5,000 different lives before this one. This is the engagement bait factory. Anonymous accounts run a content cycle that goes: stolen image, vague mystery question, comment harvest, screenshot, repost. Each cycle generates engagement metrics that get sold to brands or used to seed paid follower bases. The economics work because X's algorithm rewards comments and the question format produces them at scale. The image is real. The poster's confusion is staged. This format costs roughly zero dollars to produce, generates 10,000 to 100,000 views per repost, and can run for months across multiple accounts before the algorithm catches the recycle. Every "weird thing in my house" or "what is this strange shape" post you scrolled past in the last six months is more likely a content harvest than a real homeowner mystery. The question is fake. The mice are real. Someone else's house. Someone else's problem. Your timeline. Your engagement.

  • ShraddhaShips
    Shraddha (@ShraddhaShips) reported

    Day 16 of my journey 🚀 learning something new about distribution every day most indie makers building AI tools skip this step: they build → launch → wonder why no one shows up the fix is boring but it works: pick ONE channel, go deep, stay consistent Reddit, a niche newsletter, a Discord, doesn't matter which just don't try all of them at once

  • imsehej
    Singh (@imsehej) reported

    the best SEO for your SaaS is X/Reddit yet most "builders" ignore it they're too busy writing blog posts nobody reads, optimizing meta descriptions, and begging for backlinks from websites with 12 monthly visitors "SEO takes 6-12 months to work" bro you'll be dead in 6-12 months if you're waiting on google to save your startup here's what these SEO rtards don't understand traditional SEO is a LAGGING indicator social SEO is a LEADING indicator by the time google ranks your blog post, the market has moved on by the time your "ultimate guide to X" hits page one, three competitors have already stolen your customers through twitter threads and reddit comments you're playing a 12-month game in a 12-week market and losing let me explain why X and reddit ARE your SEO strategy GOOGLE IS DYING FOR DISCOVERY nobody under 35 googles "best project management tool" anymore they go to twitter and search "project management tool" to see what real people recommend they go to reddit and search "r/startups project management" to see unfiltered opinions they trust PEOPLE not algorithms google knows this that's why they're now indexing tweets and reddit posts in search results your reddit comment from 6 months ago is ranking higher than some company's 3000-word blog post because google finally realized humans trust humans not corporate content farms THE COMPOUND EFFECT OF SOCIAL SEO here's what happens when you post on X consistently your tweets get indexed by google within HOURS not months your threads show up for long-tail keywords you didn't even target your profile becomes a search result for your niche someone googles "cold email deliverability tips" and YOUR thread appears not because you optimized for it because you said something valuable and the algorithm rewarded you meanwhile the traditional SEO guy is on month 4 of his "content calendar" with zero traffic here's what happens when you post on reddit strategically your comments live FOREVER in threads that rank for buyer-intent keywords someone googles "best CRM for agencies reddit" and finds YOUR recommendation that recommendation is trusted 10x more than any google ad or sponsored post you're not fighting for rankings you're CREATING rankings by participating in conversations that already rank that's the arbitrage nobody talks about THE SEARCH INTENT HIERARCHY traditional SEO targets keywords social SEO targets CONVERSATIONS and conversations reveal intent that keywords never could when someone posts on reddit "frustrated with my current email tool, what should i switch to" that's not a keyword that's a BUYER with their wallet open asking for recommendations no SEO tool will find that for you but 15 minutes of reddit browsing will and your helpful response lives there forever, converting readers into users for years this is why one thoughtful reddit comment can outperform 50 blog posts because it hits at the EXACT moment of purchase intent not 6 months before when they were just browsing THE TRUST DIFFERENTIAL here's the part that makes traditional SEO people uncomfortable nobody trusts your website nobody trusts your blog nobody trusts your "unbiased comparison" that somehow ranks your product first but they trust some random person on twitter who said "been using [tool] for 6 months, **** actually works" they trust the reddit comment with 47 upvotes that says "switched from [competitor] to [you], never looking back" TRUST is the new SEO and trust lives on social platforms not corporate blogs you can't manufacture trust with keywords and backlinks you manufacture trust by SHOWING UP where real conversations happen and being genuinely helpful that's it THE X/REDDIT SEO FRAMEWORK here's how to actually execute this LAYER 1: CONVERSATION MINING search your niche keywords on twitter and reddit weekly find every post where someone is asking for recommendations, complaining about competitors, or describing the exact problem you solve make a list these are your "keywords" - except they're actually PEOPLE you can help LAYER 2: VALUE RESPONSES respond to these conversations with genuine help not "check out my tool" actual ******* advice that solves their problem if your advice is good enough, they'll check your profile if your profile clearly shows what you do, they'll check your product the sale happens without selling LAYER 3: CONTENT SEEDING post original content that answers the questions you keep seeing twitter threads that address common pain points reddit posts that provide genuine value to the community this content gets indexed, gets shared, gets referenced in future conversations your organic reach compounds LAYER 4: PROFILE OPTIMIZATION your X bio and pinned tweet are your homepage now your reddit profile and comment history are your trust signals optimize these like you'd optimize a landing page because for most people, this IS your landing page they'll see your comment before they ever see your website LAYER 5: CONSISTENCY BEATS INTENSITY one reddit comment per day = 365 indexed pieces of content per year one twitter thread per week = 52 searchable assets per year all ranking faster than any blog post all building trust in ways traditional SEO never could all compounding while you sleep WHY MOST BUILDERS IGNORE THIS because it doesn't feel like "real marketing" because they can't put "reddit comments" in a marketing report because some SEO guru told them they need 50 backlinks and a 2000-word pillar page so they spend 6 months on traditional SEO get zero results then blame the algorithm meanwhile some kid with zero marketing budget is acquiring users through twitter threads and reddit comments because he understood that ATTENTION is the only metric that matters and attention lives on social platforms now not on page 7 of google HERE'S WHAT YOU DO THIS WEEK stop writing blog posts nobody will read open twitter and search your main keyword - respond to 5 posts with genuine value open reddit and find 3 subreddits where your customers hang out - answer 3 questions helpfully do this every day for 30 days check your analytics you'll have more referral traffic from social than from 6 months of traditional SEO because the game changed and nobody told you google is a distribution channel for social content now not the other way around start acting like it go post something valuable in the next 60 minutes DM me @imsehej on twitter or telegram & i'll show you exactly which subreddits and twitter searches to target for your SaaS

  • Pharmer_75
    Aaron (@Pharmer_75) reported

    @Pmdiet13 @EricSpracklen The fed tried, for well over a decade, to squeeze a 2% inflation rate out of the economy and they couldn’t do it. At the same time, ordinary people were doing the best they’d ever done (I’m talking through 2019). So much so that regular joes were sitting at home on Reddit taking down actual hedge funds. The scam wasn’t working. The scale had to be tipped back in the "right" direction. Then.... *POOF* Covid. I don't blame boomers, immigrants, or any ordinary person. Ordinary people aren't the problem here. The corrupt and criminal power structure is.

  • askOkara
    Okara (@askOkara) reported

    every feature you ship is a content opportunity most founders / marketers announce it on x and move on here's a better approach: 1. post the announcement on x 2. write a linkedin post announcing the feature 3. write a short article 4. find reddit threads where people complain about that exact problem and drop a comment 5. include that feature in the weekly email you send to users ship it once, publish everywhere

  • tryraziel
    Raziel (@tryraziel) reported

    I dug into Reddit's IPO filing and the return math for early investors is absolutely wild. A $100K seed investment in Reddit in 2005 turned into $47 million at IPO. Here's the full breakdown: → 2005 Seed: $100K bought ~2.1% equity at $4.7M valuation → 2014 Series B: Company valued at $500M (106x jump) → 2017 Series C: $1.8B valuation → 2019 Series D: $3B valuation → 2021 Series E: $10B valuation → 2024 IPO: $6.4B public valuation That seed check returned 470x in 19 years. But here's what's crazy — Reddit's IPO was considered "disappointing" because it went public below its 2021 private market high. The stock was down 36% from peak private valuations. Yet seed investors still made generational wealth. A reminder that even "underwhelming" exits can create life-changing returns if you got in early enough. The math only works when you write the first checks. Series E investors? They lost money. What's the earliest stage you've invested at?

  • searchless_ai
    Searchless.ai (@searchless_ai) reported

    @bree_sharp The Reddit problem is deeper than most realize. 40% of AI citations pulling from a platform where brand participation is actively penalized means the entire GEO playbook most agencies are selling is built on sand. The real opportunity isn't getting cited on Reddit. It's building the kind of original research and data that LLMs prefer over forum threads. Our data shows cited domains with proprietary datasets get 3-4x more AI referrals than those quoting secondary sources.

  • craigbob99
    Craig D. Mansfield, PhD, EI 👨‍🔬🥼🥽⚗️🧪🔬☣️☢️🧮 (@craigbob99) reported

    @HoneyBadgerBite The TikTok vs Reddit implication is hilarious. Both platforms have a distinct problem with hating men.

  • theAIdreamer
    iamfaheem (@theAIdreamer) reported

    @gregisenberg AI-native GTM is the part nobody talks about. Instead of reps manually hunting for prospects, AI watches conversations happening across X, Reddit, LinkedIn, forums in real time and surfaces the ones where someone is describing the exact problem you solve. That intent signal already exists. Most companies just aren't listening. Tools like Buddyy are built specifically for this.

  • j33_j33
    TheOwl. (@j33_j33) reported

    @CNN BREAKING: $EBAY turns down $GME Ryan Cohens 56B offer to purchase using his... Reddit Karma, used underwear & 6 holographic Pokemon cards.

  • dictionaryhill
    Meccanica (@dictionaryhill) reported

    Cross posting this from the (private) Airstream Addicts Facebook page without the username to protect the innocent. If anyone has a link to the public Reddit post or Substack please feel free to share it in comments. Take note, his biggest issue is my same problem with Cybertruck and why I choose the R1T. The front charge port. Enjoy: -------- 1,219.7 miles. Joshua Tree, CA to Olympia, WA. Three days, one 31’ Airstream Sovereign, one Silverado EV, and a spreadsheet that wouldn’t quit. Final tally: Silverado EV: $362.92 2020 F-150 (12 mpg): The truck I started this silly journey on back in 2024. Fuel costs would’ve been ~$599 2022 Diesel Silverado 2500 (13 mpg + DEF): The truck I upgraded to after being underwhelmed with the F150. Fuel costs would’ve been ~$673 The EV came in at about 30¢ a mile - roughly half the cost of either truck at today’s West Coast pump prices. The catch? Eleven charging stops vs maybe three or four for gas. The EV “paid” me about $42/hr vs the F-150 and $54/hr vs the diesel for the extra time spent plugged in. Charges averaged 30-40 minutes each. Solid trade when you’re eating lunch or stretching your legs anyway. Less solid when you’re trying to make Olympia by dark. Best efficiency: 1.6 mi/kWh coming down off Siskiyou Summit. Worst: 1.0 mi/kWh going up the same pass. Gravity, as always, keeps the books balanced. Held 55 mph in California, 65 in Oregon and Washington. The 10 mph bump cost about 14% in efficiency - right where v² aero theory says it should land. Honest math, not guesses. The part nobody talks about: 9 of 11 stops required dropping and re-hitching the Airstream. Pull-through fast chargers are still rare enough to be a rumor. If the networks want to win the towing market, that’s the problem to solve. I didn’t realize one of the brand new Rivian chargers was pull through until I had already unhitched. Didn’t matter. Takes literally two minutes to unhitch. About the same to hitch back up. No complicated hitch - straight on the ball. Fuel costs were current CA/OR/WA prices averaged together. Full Substack write-up is coming. Reddit r/SilveradoEV got the long-form data dump. This is the elevator pitch. The truck pulled the Airstream without drama. The numbers say it did it cheaper. The clock says it took a little longer. All three are true at the same time.

  • OllieOops503
    ollieoops | #TENOÍ (@OllieOops503) reported

    JJ Reddit taking the three pointer guy out when they’re down by three #Fairs #LetBronBeThePlayerCoach

  • ryeoknshine
    feliya (@ryeoknshine) reported

    @stinky_kyu reddit is absolutely not worth going on for tdp discussion cus nobody on that sub has any sense and think theyre smarter than the players. unforch cus sd and kh are associated i imagine he will continue being brought up and it wont die down the way the s1 orbit hate did :/

  • realarmaansidhu
    Armaan Sidhu (@realarmaansidhu) reported

    The Intel $700k grandma post keeps recirculating because the guy actually won. Every repost lands harder than the last because INTC keeps printing new 52-week highs every few weeks. The original Reddit post was at $30.45 in April 2025. By April 2026 INTC was at $70-80. The shares were worth roughly $1.6-1.8 million. The TLDR went from "kid YOLO's inheritance" to "kid catches generational bottom." What's worth noting is when the consensus broke. Mid-2024: stock at $18-22, Wall Street median PT below $30, Pat Gelsinger fired, foundry losing billions, AMD taking server share. Reddit poster bought. Q4 2024 to Q1 2025: stock bounces from $20 to $35 on Lip-Bu Tan announcement and CHIPS Act tranches. Most retail still bearish. Q2-Q3 2025: stock grinds from $40 to $60. Tesla foundry rumors confirmed. First 18A tape-outs successful. Bull case slowly forms. Q4 2025 to Q2 2026: Apple deal preliminary, then announced. SK hynix EMIB study. Stock breaks $100 then $130. WSB poster's position passes $3 million. What makes it educational rather than lottery-ticket mythology is that the thesis was always available to read. Pat Gelsinger's foundry roadmap was published. The CHIPS Act tranches were public. The Tesla deal was rumored months before confirmation. The information existed. The conviction to act on it didn't, except for a few accounts. One of which was a college kid with $700k of grandma's money. The lesson isn't to YOLO inheritance. The lesson is that the consensus is wrong far more often than it admits. You just have to be right when it is.

  • OlzFocuses
    OlzFocuses (@OlzFocuses) reported

    @Tim_Denning The kale phone helps for a week. Then the brain finds the next escape. Reddit on the laptop. News refresh. Email. The phone isn’t the problem. It’s the most efficient version of the problem. Swap the device, keep the loop.

  • guilippert_v4
    Guilherme Lippert (@guilippert_v4) reported

    @noah_sterlingg Exactly. AI search rewards grounded presence in real problem/solution conversations more than backlink volume. The missing layer for most teams is operational: reviews, support language, objections, win/loss notes, Reddit threads, sales calls. That gives LLMs something citeable. Another SEO package doesn't.

  • MrMunchWeb
    Chris Munch (@MrMunchWeb) reported

    @aporiabuilds the exact words your customer uses to describe their problem in amazon reviews and reddit threads are your highest converting headline and most brands never look.

  • LordCanas
    Lord Iván Emiro Cañas Gutiérrez 🇬🇧🇻🇪 (@LordCanas) reported

    @CharlesMullins2 Hi, answering your question I would say No. The viral posts (on Facebook, X, Reddit, etc.) love calling it "quantum levitation" or "reversing a fundamental force" because it sounds dramatic. But the researchers themselves describe it accurately as a tunable quantum vacuum force for nanoscale engineering, not a gravity breakthrough. Bottom line: This is a real, fascinating advance in quantum mechanics and potential nanotech (think better MEMS devices, ultra-low-friction components, or quantum traps). But it's not anti-gravity, and it doesn't point the way there. If we ever crack macroscopic anti-gravity or gravity manipulation, it'll come from a very different corner of physics. No, this is not anti-gravity (or a step toward it). The viral claim you're describing is real science, but massively overhyped in wording. It refers to recent (and some older) demonstrations of a repulsive version of the Casimir force, which can make tiny objects repel each other or "hover" at nanoscale distances without physical contact. That's genuinely cool for quantum physics and nanotechnology, but it has zero connection to gravity or anti-gravity. Quick recap of the actual science (no hype) The Casimir effect (predicted in 1948) is a measurable quantum force between two uncharged, parallel conducting plates (or other surfaces) in a vacuum. It arises from quantum vacuum fluctuations, virtual particles popping in and out of existence in empty space. These fluctuations are restricted between the plates, creating a tiny net attractive pressure that pulls the plates together. It's real, has been experimentally confirmed many times, and becomes significant only at distances of micrometers or less (way smaller than a human hair). Scientists have figured out how to reverse it into repulsion in specific setups: Using different materials (e.g., one surface coated with a low-refractive-index dielectric like Teflon in a fluid medium). Chiral (twisted) optical materials between plates. Ferrofluids (magnetic nanoparticles in liquid) tuned with external magnetic fields. Certain metamaterials or geometry tweaks. In these cases, the vacuum fluctuations produce a repulsive force instead. Experiments have shown tiny gold flakes or other micro-objects stably "hovering" or levitating ~50–200 nanometers above a surface due to the balance of repulsive and attractive Casimir contributions. Recent work (e.g., 2019 experiments and 2024 studies with ferrofluids + magnetic fields) has made this tunable and reversible. The force does indeed come from quantum fluctuations in "empty space itself," as the claim says. And yes, it can enable frictionless microscopic motion or prevent nanoscale parts from sticking together (a big problem in tiny machines). Why this is not anti-gravity Completely different forces. Gravity is the attraction between masses (or spacetime curvature in general relativity). The Casimir force is a quantum electromagnetic effect from the vacuum's zero-point energy in quantum electrodynamics (QED). It has nothing to do with mass or gravitational fields. Repulsive Casimir doesn't "cancel" or manipulate gravity any more than magnetic repulsion does. Scale and strength. At the microscopic scales where this works, gravity is insanely weak compared to Casimir forces (by many orders of magnitude). The "hovering" you see in lab demos isn't fighting Earth's gravity, it's balancing short-range quantum forces against each other (or against other tiny effects like Van Der Waals). I couldn't use this to levitate even a speck of dust against planetary gravity. No pathway to anti-gravity tech. Anti-gravity would require something like negative mass/energy, wormholes, or manipulating spacetime on macroscopic scales, none of which this touches. Vacuum fluctuations do relate to big cosmological mysteries (like dark energy), but reversing Casimir locally in QED setups doesn't advance gravitational control or unification theories. Claims linking this directly to "anti-gravity" appear only in social-media hype or fringe posts, not in the actual physics.