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> No porn. What is porn? > No politics. What is political? > No racism or any form of bigotry. What is bigoted? > A soft rule of: Don't be an asshole. What is an asshole?
If these are the rules I'm pretty sure the site already lost the battle against reddit
How come most of these new reddit clones choose a style that aligns more with "new reddit" than "old reddit"? Which I thought we disliked? Please use the full-width of the screen.
Is that why people like old Reddit? I never got what the allure was.
Same with this website.
> No porn. What is porn? > No politics. What is political? > No racism or any form of bigotry. What is bigoted? > A soft rule of: Don't be an asshole. What is an asshole?
Not OP but this can be explained. Porn = Nude Pictures/audio/videos of human beings. People having sex of any type in the form of video/audio/images. Politics = Discussion of any political ideology. Libeal/Conservative/Country etc etc. I personally disagree with OP here but wanted to define it for you anyway. Bigoted = judging/not liking people purely based on where they come from, color of their skin, sexual orienta…
I've now just dropped the "no politics" rule, because people seem to get the wrong idea.
Meh, I disagree with point 1. Any platform that is not federated or at the minimum open source will go the same way as Twitter, Reddit, or Myspace. The idea of reddit is bigger than one site, it's a replacement for the internet forums. We don't need another platform lock in. I applaud the dev work, but this isn't going attract the tech crowd.
Hard disagree on point 1. I mean, yeh, you'll maybe win a hardcore niche of nerds with federated services, but the usability / understandability of federation is absolutely awful, per my AskHN recently [0]. That's not to say it couldn't be improved with some good UI and maybe some thoughts about how to communicate it, but right now your average Reddit / Insta / Facebook user is gunna be running a mile. It's absolutel…
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Hard disagree on point 1. I mean, yeh, you'll maybe win a hardcore niche of nerds with federated services, but the usability / understandability of federation is absolutely awful, per my AskHN recently [0]. That's not to say it couldn't be improved with some good UI and maybe some thoughts about how to communicate it, but right now your average Reddit / Insta / Facebook user is gunna be running a mile. It's absolutel…
Email is one of the most successful Internet applications of all time.
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Email is one of the most successful Internet applications of all time.
HTTP is too. People forget that HTTP is the original fediverse.
Now it would be nice if all the things associated with my identity followed me around between the various decentralised forums, if reputation were more easily assessed and transparently generated, and if all my discussions across the web were accessible to me from a single dashboard.
Still, it surprises me when people say 'decentralised? it'll never take off' since I think it's a big part of why the internet was successful in the first place, and we still have the legacy of that in so much of what we do on the internet. People have been using postal services for centuries. With your phone you can call people in different countries, on different networks, using handsets made by different manufacturers.
If anything, I would say that we started decentralised for good reason, the first generation of attempts to enclose the commons failed because they couldn't generate content as fast as the world. The second attempt was very successful, based on a large influx of money, and network effects but we're starting to see those start to fail for predictable reasons. The lifecycle of centralised services are tied to the lifecycle of corporations and the vagaries of shareholder interest. That will never result in services that can stand the test of time in a meaningful way.
You can tell we're in the pendulum swing back now, because companies are fighting against volunteer labour (anyone who tries to make their systems work with other systems) to make things worse for their own customers. That sort of approach is absurd and not long term sustainable.
Points 1 & 2, together, are basically a dead-on-arrival style announcement. Would be fitting if it were intentionally ironic.
The lede is buried anyway, no politics/porn/etc. Again, see #1. We have no reason to trust, the folks that say "no politics" are always political in favor of the status quo and don't understand the full implications of social networks. At all
Edit: does OP's 8 month old comment talking about wealth redistribution from tech billionaires being tantamount to "Soviet Russia" count as political? Etc etc etc.
Meh, I disagree with point 1. Any platform that is not federated or at the minimum open source will go the same way as Twitter, Reddit, or Myspace. The idea of reddit is bigger than one site, it's a replacement for the internet forums. We don't need another platform lock in. I applaud the dev work, but this isn't going attract the tech crowd.
Hard disagree on point 1. I mean, yeh, you'll maybe win a hardcore niche of nerds with federated services, but the usability / understandability of federation is absolutely awful, per my AskHN recently [0]. That's not to say it couldn't be improved with some good UI and maybe some thoughts about how to communicate it, but right now your average Reddit / Insta / Facebook user is gunna be running a mile. It's absolutel…
2. Name me something that has outlived reddit and not gone through enshitification (it's a term, I'm not being crass). Name one single product or platform.