• GingaNinga@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      I feel like a lot of people wanna short it out of spite and a whale is gonna squeeze them out with a big buy like 2 weeks into trading. If puts are cheap I might grab one just for fun. It’m curious to see how WSB plays it.

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          Pre GME they would’ve buried them, for fun ofc

          Post GME prob have bots shilling it to lurkers wondering the same thing

          After the price falls, I see them having a future as a data company. They already have 1 customer paying them $60m annually. Regardless of it’s future, they have over a decades worth of data in many areas. Spez already got his though.

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      Maybe, but I think it’ll take a bit longer. Reddit’ll be given some artificial value, then the initial stock will be flogged at 80% of that to make people think they’re getting a good deal, so loads of people will buy it, then the price’ll shoot up, so loads more people will buy that; meanwhile Spez’ll cash out his billions then when the true value of Reddit is realised there’ll be a “correction” - i.e. a crash, and the last bunch of suckers to buy will be sitting on a huge loss that’ll take years to recover from as it slowly inches back up by a couple of percent a year.

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      5 months ago

      Not all stocks issue dividends, and even then only profitable companies issue dividends.

      Reddit has NEVER been profitable

  • Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    5 months ago

    Personally I’d support the people hosting the instance you like

    They do a lot of work hosting the sever which is very much not free

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    https://join-lemmy.org/donate

    It would be nice to have a “patreon” like monthy support and then an open accounting - so we know the money is split to development, instance server hosting costs and maybe admin wages. Or maybe can vote on it. I think fediverse is only the first step, we’re going to need some kind of global non profit funded by users to create federated software and content for users.

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    5 months ago

    I was curious what it would take, and they asked for my real name to be associated with my username. That might be a bridge too far.