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Re: r/ChangeMyView Is Graduating Reddit: Introducing ChangeAView.com

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Post by Grue3 »

0815test wrote: post #6
propter_hoc wrote: post #3

There are two problems that you will have to deal with: - auto-discovery and growth through r/all - no longer will you have people popping in because you made it to Reddit's front page - loss of the great number of current subscribers who (before) can go to their reddit homepage and see your top posts automatically, but (now) would have to go to a totally new website to see your posts. I subscribe to about 40 subredd…

They could solve both issues by federating with Mastodon instead. No, they wouldn't be on Reddit specifically, but they'd be interacting with a fairly sizeable userbase nonetheless.

Doesn't Mastodon have a character limit? How can you even start changing someone's view with just 500 characters?

Re: r/ChangeMyView Is Graduating Reddit: Introducing ChangeAView.com

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Post by deadalus »

snazz wrote: post #2

I wonder how much more this will happen with the current controversy surrounding Reddit’s funding and uncertain future. They are doing surprisingly well after a horrid redesign and everything else that’s happened over there.

More and more sub-reddits are getting banned on Reddit everyday. Many sub-reddits are preserving their content before they get hammered.

r/DarkNetMarkets has https://www.gwern.net/DNM-archives

r/TheRedPill has https://trpbackup.com/

Reddit got rid of the "post view count" and has decided to " restrict access to sub-reddit traffic pages to mods only".

source : https://redd.it/6atvgi

Re: r/ChangeMyView Is Graduating Reddit: Introducing ChangeAView.com

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Post by sodosopa »

Good for them. I honestly and truly hope they succeed.

I have a small sub (30-40k =/- subscribers)and thought about doing this. I have the infrastructure for my personal projects but don't know if I wanna deal with the upkeep and some of the few mods we have.

We're not political, we just wanna help people learn something and tell someone to bugger off when it's needed. Would open up a lot of possibilities and we would just use the Reddit sub as a link farm back to our site. It's horrible UI and other inabilities aren't the experiences we want for our users.

Re: r/ChangeMyView Is Graduating Reddit: Introducing ChangeAView.com

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Post by smacktoward »

Grue3 wrote: post #11
0815test wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They could solve both issues by federating with Mastodon instead. No, they wouldn't be on Reddit specifically, but they'd be interacting with a fairly sizeable userbase nonetheless.

Doesn't Mastodon have a character limit? How can you even start changing someone's view with just 500 characters?

Mastodon has a character limit, but the protocol underlying Mastodon (ActivityPub: http://activitypub.rocks/) doesn't.

Adding a character limit was just a design decision on the part of the Mastodon developers to make their app more Twitter-like. There's nothing stopping others from building apps that don't have a character limit, and they would be able to federate with Mastodon and other AP-enabled apps just fine.

Re: r/ChangeMyView Is Graduating Reddit: Introducing ChangeAView.com

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Post by sodosopa »

0815test wrote: post #6
propter_hoc wrote: post #3

There are two problems that you will have to deal with: - auto-discovery and growth through r/all - no longer will you have people popping in because you made it to Reddit's front page - loss of the great number of current subscribers who (before) can go to their reddit homepage and see your top posts automatically, but (now) would have to go to a totally new website to see your posts. I subscribe to about 40 subredd…

They could solve both issues by federating with Mastodon instead. No, they wouldn't be on Reddit specifically, but they'd be interacting with a fairly sizeable userbase nonetheless.

Honest question from a Mastodon user. Is it truly that large? Most of the nodes I'm on remind me of 2006 Twitter, shouting in the dark.

Re: r/ChangeMyView Is Graduating Reddit: Introducing ChangeAView.com

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Post by diminoten »

propter_hoc wrote: post #3

There are two problems that you will have to deal with: - auto-discovery and growth through r/all - no longer will you have people popping in because you made it to Reddit's front page - loss of the great number of current subscribers who (before) can go to their reddit homepage and see your top posts automatically, but (now) would have to go to a totally new website to see your posts. I subscribe to about 40 subredd…

It'd be not-that-difficult, technology wise, to integrate with Reddit, with submissions instead going to changeaview.com instead of reddit.com's comment section.

Re: r/ChangeMyView Is Graduating Reddit: Introducing ChangeAView.com

#17

Post by BucketSort »

Is there a decentralized version of Reddit that allows you to own your subreddit? I recently got burned where a sub I created was taken from me without explanation or warning and when I reached out to the admins, it fell on deaf ears. The idea that you have no ownership over your subreddit is bearable until you get burned and realize how crazy it is. Same thing goes for YouTube.

Re: r/ChangeMyView Is Graduating Reddit: Introducing ChangeAView.com

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Post by benatkin »

jf22 wrote: post #5

I love this subreddit but wouldn't visit a separate website.

I don't like the subreddit but if I did, I would be interested in participating in their community on a separate website. To each their own, I guess.

Why I don't like it: a big part of it is people taking troll posts seriously. The third post down on changeaview.com when I visited it is "To be transgender or to condone it is nothing short of a lie". Then the author goes through a bunch of talking points. They're not there to give people a fair chance to change their view but to get people to read their garbage. Still, people argue posts like these and get to feel good about it, when they're really just helping to provide attention to trolls.

Re: r/ChangeMyView Is Graduating Reddit: Introducing ChangeAView.com

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Post by [deleted] »

diminoten wrote: post #16
propter_hoc wrote: post #3

There are two problems that you will have to deal with: - auto-discovery and growth through r/all - no longer will you have people popping in because you made it to Reddit's front page - loss of the great number of current subscribers who (before) can go to their reddit homepage and see your top posts automatically, but (now) would have to go to a totally new website to see your posts. I subscribe to about 40 subredd…

It'd be not-that-difficult, technology wise, to integrate with Reddit, with submissions instead going to changeaview.com instead of reddit.com's comment section.

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Re: r/ChangeMyView Is Graduating Reddit: Introducing ChangeAView.com

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Post by eecks »

sodosopa wrote: post #13

Good for them. I honestly and truly hope they succeed. I have a small sub (30-40k =/- subscribers)and thought about doing this. I have the infrastructure for my personal projects but don't know if I wanna deal with the upkeep and some of the few mods we have. We're not political, we just wanna help people learn something and tell someone to bugger off when it's needed. Would open up a lot of possibilities and we woul…

What's the sub?
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