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Could you make it edit them to an AES256 encryption of itself? That way it's reversible Much better way to protest I feel like
Hm interesting point! I feel like for a broad audience having to manage your encryption key wouldn't be a good UX, but maybe for more advanced users!
AES is symmetrical
For general discussion, there is no alternative, and reddit was not an option even before today. I was active on two non-tech subreddits: /r/judaism and /r/buttcoin. I am a classical liberal politically, but I am also an Orthodox Jew. I was banned across several accounts for respectfully stating Jewish beliefs in /r/Judaism and for saying that hating Jews isn't acceptable "anti-zionism" in /r/buttcoin. (I'm an anti-zionist, and my statement that hating Jews isn't ok led to a ban from the subreddit for "defending Zionist agression" or something equally absurd.)
I've seen media become more polarized in the last ten years or so. There is little left and right discussion. There are places where left is OK and anything else is fascism, which is ok to ban. On the other side, there are conspiracy theories, and anything else is lies by communist pedophiles and groomers to discredit great patriots. (I guess I'm a fascist and a communist because I believe Trump is a criminal and men can't get pregnant.) HN stays pretty clean by avoiding politics, but if you're looking for good political discussion, please make your own site. I'll help with the infrastructure, and maybe some good discussion will come of it.
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It's important, but so is community building. Most communities function best when there's some degree of moderation. For example, people would prefer that the speech in their bird watching community is limited and trolls are kept out. Putting up with abrasive behavior in your community isn't brave, it's just masochistic. It is true that some communities on Reddit weren't possible because they were not permitted to al…
You can make the community building tools so much more powerful too! If people want to make a bird community and ban all pro-hawk posters, that's perfectly fine. The issue's are around the secrecy in administration. How about adding the following: - Removing shadowbans - Allow users to see all deleted comments if they opt in - Allow users to see all banned accounts/reasons they got banned. Imagine a page for each sub…
Reddit does two things really: 1. Link Discovery 2. Discussion There are a few options for Link Discovery. I have a bunch of fora and sites hooked up to an rss reader (the old reader, since google shutdown reader) which does pretty well (although I'd like it to do a bit more). The link discovery thing is like the equivalent of having channels on your TV. You can stream any program (website) of a huge number but a cha…
To some extent, this is what Artifact.news is doing though it's mostly mainstream news right now.
They have a neat feature that aggregates comments across different articles covering the same topic.
Almost abandoned, full of spam, but still there: a decentralized network where anyone can run their own server, serving just to them or to someone or too anyone the groups they want. Groups are far more discoverable than Reddit subs and they work pretty well. Bonus: messages can be stored and then indexed locally as anyone might wish.
In general: using a platform owned by someone else meant no real guarantee, being part of a communitarian platform, owning the bit we are interested in, means we are Citizens peers, between peers.
If Reddit concern you try to imaging a fleet of leased connected cars, your webmail (with someone else domain name and no messages on your iron), even the "modern smart city" where anything is a service.
When you'll see https://www.forbes.com/sites/worldeconomicforum/2016/11/10/s... you'll understand why we are there in IT terms and where is the future. IT state of thing is just few years in the future respect of the rest of the society.
It’s not a one to one alternative but I’ve gradually moved from reddit to twitter to get my news and find interesting takes on whatever topics I’m interested in. I just follow a few interesting people for whatever topics I want to follow. In fact the “for you” page has been giving me decent recommendations lately.
I barely use twitter these days. The platform is falling apart. If you aren't a paying subscriber you will be deboosted, blue checkmarks are the ones that get raised to the top first. I also resent having to wade through a sea of bot garbage that aren't even real people. Just algos from Russia and other lovely places that are programmed to pop up and froth and foam if they see a keyword.
Old twitter was fun though, back when it was real people.
I’ve seen https://tildes.net/ pop up but it’s invite only atm I think, would totally be down for an invite from anyone here though :)
https://tildes.net/register?code=UBZX0-DBQOR-H2W6A
https://tildes.net/register?code=IYUPP-2VZHD-EPZWM
https://tildes.net/register?code=TW3P3-YK0LZ-L7FLY
https://tildes.net/register?code=MAUNA-6IE43-OY86X
https://tildes.net/register?code=8RC2T-40G03-AFSYF
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I'll save a bunch of people some trouble. This is a politically-"leftist" site (top current thread is "How did you get into anarchism", along with something about ACAB). It's not really a general purpose Reddit alternative. So, if that's your thing, check it out. If it's not, probably not a good fit and the "better approach" to moderation probably won't go in your favor.
That's just how the community developed. Reddit was spicy as well at the start You can have righto subs on it, nobody is going to stop you or ban you. For example in the past they removed moderators of f/communism for excluding users pushing the libertarian flavors of it Here's TOS Content Policy Content is prohibited if it is bigotry i.e. Promotes white supremacy, queerphobia, transphobia, misogyny, classism, ableis…
It depends what you're looking for. To replace the link aggregation features, I've gone back to using RSS over the past year and I'm pleased with it. I get the same news that is spread across the various subreddits, and often times news sites will report on stuff directly from reddit. For the actually discussions or more niche content, there isn't much. There are some Reddit-specific alternatives popping up, but unle…
I see reddit less as a website and more as a collection of communities. Each community has its own set of reasons for hosting itself on reddit vs other locations. Therefore I would predict that in the absence of reddit, not every community would move to the same place. I also noticed that in recent years many subreddits have increasingly been taken over by memes and other low quality posts and so users looking for mo…
I always called it a low effort forum of forums. Low effort because all you need is one account and you can wander about and annoy people in any community. But that was reddits strength - you didn't need to register and keep track of different accounts and sites.
> I also noticed that in recent years many subreddits have increasingly been taken over by memes and other low quality posts and so users looking for more substantial content have already moved elsewhere.
The issue with focused reddits is once all the interesting shit has been posted and questions have been answered, where is the value in the community? At that point the sub has saturated and cant grow and the members are bored so memes and shitposts take over. I mean how many times can the same "n00b here - how do I dive into X" question be answered before users either ignore them, down-vote them or tell them to search the forum for similar answers already posted? Its stagnation that any community will face.