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Re: Jimmy Wales has quietly launched a Facebook rival

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Post by Existenceblinks »

ratfaced-guy wrote: post #294

What I want is a decentralized Reddit not under the control of advertising needs. Reddit redesign has been bad for quality content. I actually find Reddit to be a better source of information and knowledge than Google at this point, mostly because Google has been inundated with paid blog-spam. It's a bit harder to get away with that in Reddit (for the time being, and for whatever reason).

True about source of information. When people (me included) find things on google, just also add `site:reddit.com` or just `reddit` next to keyword, most noise results are likely to be gone.

Re: Jimmy Wales has quietly launched a Facebook rival

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Post by com2kid »

ryanmercer wrote: post #188
hombre_fatal wrote: post #161

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This post shows how smart Amazon's Prime strategy is. We have someone probably spending thousands of dollars with Amazon (and Amazon taking a good chunk of that in commission) bragging about getting some free ebooks.

Spending money I'd spend at a brick and mortar store, that I'd have to drive to using oil life/tire life/gasoline/brake pad life/brake rotor life while also losing time. Instead, I can think "oh hey I need to get a shoe horn, the heels on the uppers of the slip-ons I wear to church are getting funky" or "ah crap, I forgot to stop and get a new belt on the way home and this one is getting pretty loose on the last notc…

> oh hey I need to get a shoe horn,

Related, I went to buy a shoe stretcher on Amazon. Had to buy 3 before I got one that wasn't complete garbage.

I'd have gone to someplace local but none of the local places have much inventory for quality goods anymore either...

For me Amazon is still a net win in regards to convenience, but there are a lot of things I just won't buy.

Heck for a little while earlier this year the official Sonicare page was somehow taken over by people selling knock-off replacement heads, all the links from the manufacturers verified page went to obviously fraudulent misspelled products.

Re: Jimmy Wales has quietly launched a Facebook rival

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Post by valeg »

zanny wrote: post #326
ratfaced-guy wrote: post #294

What I want is a decentralized Reddit not under the control of advertising needs. Reddit redesign has been bad for quality content. I actually find Reddit to be a better source of information and knowledge than Google at this point, mostly because Google has been inundated with paid blog-spam. It's a bit harder to get away with that in Reddit (for the time being, and for whatever reason).

Prismo[1] was an attempt at that if anyone wants some historical context. [1] https://gitlab.com/prismosuite/prismo

also https://github.com/dessalines/lemmy

Re: Jimmy Wales has quietly launched a Facebook rival

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Post by Mirioron »

Existenceblinks wrote: post #361
ratfaced-guy wrote: post #294

What I want is a decentralized Reddit not under the control of advertising needs. Reddit redesign has been bad for quality content. I actually find Reddit to be a better source of information and knowledge than Google at this point, mostly because Google has been inundated with paid blog-spam. It's a bit harder to get away with that in Reddit (for the time being, and for whatever reason).

True about source of information. When people (me included) find things on google, just also add `site:reddit.com` or just `reddit` next to keyword, most noise results are likely to be gone.

This is what I do whenever I want to find people's opinions on a product or subject.

Re: Jimmy Wales has quietly launched a Facebook rival

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Post by flavor8 »

hutzlibu wrote: post #330
cjsawyer wrote: post #322

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It’s easier now than ever. The difference is that normal people don’t venture off the big websites now.

It is easy to set up a site, to blog and people can comment and you do not get drowned in auto spam? Where and how?

...and enough people find your content to have a decent conversation without you having to learn marketing?

Re: Jimmy Wales has quietly launched a Facebook rival

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Post by danielecook »

navigatr wrote: post #284
danielecook wrote: post #210

Previously someone mentioned the idea of a $1/mo. social network. I think if someone were to make facebook in it's first ~2 years and keep it very basic it we would be good to go. The only features you need are: a profile picture, a wall, chat, and events. In other words - a photo of yourself, a way of publicly messaging, a way of privately messaging, and a way to coordinate social events. What else do you need for a…

I would pay $1/mo for a chronological feed of my friends' updates and posts. I found Twitter and Facebook to be frustratingly unusable after they removed their chronological feeds in favor of feeds that prioritize ads and engagement.

Yes!

Re: Jimmy Wales has quietly launched a Facebook rival

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Post by Existenceblinks »

Mirioron wrote: post #364
Existenceblinks wrote: post #361

Earlier quoted context omitted.

True about source of information. When people (me included) find things on google, just also add `site:reddit.com` or just `reddit` next to keyword, most noise results are likely to be gone.

This is what I do whenever I want to find people's opinions on a product or subject.

They are generally honest. Another gem of information on products are youtube comments which is tricky to search.

Re: Jimmy Wales has quietly launched a Facebook rival

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Post by rdiddly »

danielecook wrote: post #210

Previously someone mentioned the idea of a $1/mo. social network. I think if someone were to make facebook in it's first ~2 years and keep it very basic it we would be good to go. The only features you need are: a profile picture, a wall, chat, and events. In other words - a photo of yourself, a way of publicly messaging, a way of privately messaging, and a way to coordinate social events. What else do you need for a…

Yeah, considering it's basically just a glorified CRUD app!

Re: Jimmy Wales has quietly launched a Facebook rival

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Post by bonestamp2 »

ratfaced-guy wrote: post #294

What I want is a decentralized Reddit not under the control of advertising needs. Reddit redesign has been bad for quality content. I actually find Reddit to be a better source of information and knowledge than Google at this point, mostly because Google has been inundated with paid blog-spam. It's a bit harder to get away with that in Reddit (for the time being, and for whatever reason).

> and for whatever reason

I think the answer has to do with the user's voice and a sense of ownership:

1. Even if spam accounts sign up, their comments and posts rarely get to the top of the algorithm because user's have a voice in the matter (downvote low quality content, and upvote other higher quality content).

2. There is a sense of ownership on the part of the mods... people who are generally passionate about the area of interest in which they moderate. There have been a number of cases over the years where moderators were acting in bad faith and the users have voiced their concerns to the Admins, who frequently remove mods or even whole subs that are operating against the benefit of the community.

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