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Sign me up. I’d happily contribute to that as much as I can, whenever my parents aren’t using the phone line.
Lemmy is a federated alternative to Reddit: https://github.com/dessalines/lemmy Edit: Check out the dev instance of Lemmy! https://dev.lemmy.ml/
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"We are a startup that inherited a 15 year old website" was one of the things that resonated when I worked there. Facebook is Alexa #5 in the US and has ~40,000 employees. Reddit is #6 and has ~500 employees. Twitter is #17 and has ~4,000 employees. (Numbers taken from quick Google searches) They have some super talented engineers that work miracles with band aids and bubble gum. Edit: Yes I understand not all employ…
Facebook the company has 40,000 employees, but I'm willing to bet the total number of engineers working on facebook.com vs reddit.com isn't too different.
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Exactly. Will this new platform provide a safe space for the brilliant minds at /r/fatpeoplehate? /s The problem with all anti-censorship platforms is that they become hate platforms by default, because only people who get deplatformed have an incentive to move there, and it’s mostly hateful loudmouths who get deplatformed.
Personally, I think the solution is just to give users options to censor others from their perspective instead of just trying to create some utopia that is free from hatred of any kind - which is impossible. Personally, I prefer having these disgusting people out in the open. When they do something horrendous, the paper trail can be long and damning - making it much easier to convict them. These people are usually pr…
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Indeed, also not everybody is trying to squeeze money out of their user base regardless of costs (to popularity, principles...).
Reddit gold, the new Reddit platinum and bronze, they already show ads, redesign shows ads much more prominently. Literally dozens of ad trackers when you load their site. Reddit is just as much of a profit driven company as Facebook or Twitter, I’m not sure why you’d think otherwise.
Because, among other things, they don't show annoying ad formats and don't demand real names and phone numbers from their users.
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Lemmy is a federated alternative to Reddit: https://github.com/dessalines/lemmy Edit: Check out the dev instance of Lemmy! https://dev.lemmy.ml/
Developing a new fediverse is excessive, but it is unlikely a new sorting algorithm will be added to mastodon soon.
These platforms do not fracture the Fediverse FYI, you can follow cross-platform & cross-site like normal.
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"We are a startup that inherited a 15 year old website" was one of the things that resonated when I worked there. Facebook is Alexa #5 in the US and has ~40,000 employees. Reddit is #6 and has ~500 employees. Twitter is #17 and has ~4,000 employees. (Numbers taken from quick Google searches) They have some super talented engineers that work miracles with band aids and bubble gum. Edit: Yes I understand not all employ…
Facebook the company has 40,000 employees, but I'm willing to bet the total number of engineers working on facebook.com vs reddit.com isn't too different.
Y'know, the toll that all this activity takes on Reddit's servers gave me an idea for a sort of distributed Reddit. News links and stories assorted into topic-based groups, with the option for users to comment or respond to others' comments in a threaded discussion. It would be completely decentralized and belong to the users, not some central media company. We could call it Users' Network, or USENET for short. We co…
Sign me up. I’d happily contribute to that as much as I can, whenever my parents aren’t using the phone line.
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Citing UX in a thread about Reddit, the company with an almost universally hated redesign that moved away from a mostly text-based condensed format is... interesting.
Every user engagement metric has increased since the redesign. Unfortunate for some of us, and it doesn't preclude the metrics measuring the wrong thing, but that's reality on the ground. Same reason why Gmail is a bloated mess, because that's what the metrics show is wanted by users.
the A/B test isn't telling you that users like something, only that its taking them longer and they didn't bounce.
Y'know, the toll that all this activity takes on Reddit's servers gave me an idea for a sort of distributed Reddit. News links and stories assorted into topic-based groups, with the option for users to comment or respond to others' comments in a threaded discussion. It would be completely decentralized and belong to the users, not some central media company. We could call it Users' Network, or USENET for short. We co…
Here is a bit about the technical architecture: https://link.medium.com/yjevZ7y15Z.
Used to be a heavy Usenet user back in the day.