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Yeah the horde of edgelords in WPD totally isn't one of the reasons the sub got quarantined. Gore will always be considered shock content, but the comments in WPD are almost always downright repulsive.
Dare I ask what an edgelord is?
But in general people who try to be "edgy" and "dark" to a fairly ridiculous degree.
Control-F: distributed (0 results) Control-F: peer (0 results) Control-F: p2p (1 result) Can we seriously not come up with a way to make a distributed reddit? I imagine running a client on sandstorm.io which is pulling content from subreddits that are each hosted in a sandstorm.io instance. Is the problem with that that it becomes too easy to doxx someone? That we like having a centralized authority that we can "trus…
One problem with P2P these days is that you need people to run servers, which they don't typically want to do. I made a small RaspPi box they could run, and planned to run a public instance for people who didn't want to go that far.
One problem I ran into is how to stop terrible posts. Freenet/etc have a problem with people sharing illegal and harmful material, and I didn't particularly want to help with that.
Additionally, when you create an alt-platform, it gets used be people who are kicked off of mainstream platforms. I didn't really want to end up creating a service primarily used by pedophiles and nazis.
I think there are ways to solve the technical challenges, but it's still difficult to solve the community-management in a distributed/sane way.
(The solution I came up with btw was opt-in mods. People could publish a ban list, and you could subscribe to whomevers you want. But I don't think that's a great long-term solution)
I still think there is some good work to be done in this space, and I may circle back to it someday, but the community elements are vexing.
You can see my version at https://github.com/e1ven/Tavern
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> What incentive do I have to sign up? Arguably the best Reddit experience is only available when you are signed in. Reddit's greatest value come from niche communities. Personally I enjoy things like r/savagegarden, r/mycology and r/askhistorians, so when I log in I see pictures of mushrooms and carnivorous plants, and get to read interesting articles about history and science. If you don't log in and subscribe to t…
Yes we all know the logged in experience is terrific. However, the anonymous experience is (was) also terrific for very different reasons. Reddit is next to unusable on mobile safari in incognito mode. Sometimes I don’t want to be tracked. I want to read whatever I want to at the moment, without having that be associated to my name in a database somewhere, and without having related ads follow me around. It’s an inte…
It amazes me the kind of sheer incompetency their product team has demonstrated over the past 2-3 years. (Edit - as pointed out in replies to this post, this is an unfair characterization fueled by my recent frustrations with the direction the site is going. I don't think it is unreasonable to point out that reddit is failing the expectations of their users, but I don't doubt for a minute that the individuals working…
"10 years ago when reddit would go down, you rooted for them as the underdog to figure it out. Now when it happens, it's just sad. They still can't even handle the kind of traffic that the super bowl brings them. They've had years to figure this out." Reddit goes down pretty rarely and I can't remember when it was ever down more than an hour or two. It also definitely didn't go down for the SuperBowl that I saw. The…
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Reddit played a big part in the 2016 USA elections that crowned Trump. Reddit had to change its front page algorithm to avoid having Trump content near the top of the page for almost the whole time. The subreddit in question organized itself to mass-upvote certain posts at certain times, and Reddit wasn't prepared for such massive, non-organic influence. I wonder how big of a part the Russian bots and trolls played.…
Reddit is still a haven for the far-right. It really leaves a bad taste in my mouth that they are tolerated there.
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Yes we all know the logged in experience is terrific. However, the anonymous experience is (was) also terrific for very different reasons. Reddit is next to unusable on mobile safari in incognito mode. Sometimes I don’t want to be tracked. I want to read whatever I want to at the moment, without having that be associated to my name in a database somewhere, and without having related ads follow me around. It’s an inte…
Uh, you know you can make multiple accounts and don't need to even associate an email, right? You can browse just as anonymously logged in as out.
I get that I can create an anon account, but I don’t want to spend 5 minutes doing that every time I open an incognito tab.
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It's still bad. They should cookie the choice so it doesn't always pop up every time.
This doesn't work for people who browse Reddit without cookies or signing in, such as for those who use Private Browsing.
Interesting that most of the comments here are about Reddit itself (the product) and almost nothing about Tencent. For reminder, Tencent owns - Riot Games (League of Legends, one of the most played game in the west) - Epic Games (Fortnite, another one of the most played game in the west) - and now Reddit (one of the most visited social network in the west)
Has Reddit ever had a profitable quarter, let alone year? I thought I saw that revenue had been rising but they also have significantly ramped up expenses, doubling employees and lots of new infrastructure (ex: their self-hosted video platform). This sounds like greater fool theory if the investors in the latest round think they'll be able to peddle it for greater than $3 Billion without it ever bringing a dime of ac…