Jimmy Wales has quietly launched a Facebook rival

Post by FreeTrade » Sat, Nov 16, 2019, 10:05 AM UTC

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).

Post by flavor8 » Sat, Nov 16, 2019, 10:31 AM UTC

eitland wrote: post #399

flavor8 wrote: post #365

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

Try. My blog got 16 visitors from another blog today. (edit: it is now 23!) Won't make me rich. But it makes me happy that I am part of rebuilding an old style web. If you write about interesting stuff, post your website below and I might add a link and I don't care about nofollow and all that SEO stuff. Maybe 5 of my visitors visit you. You won't get rich but you will be part of something.

Post by gsich » Sat, Nov 16, 2019, 11:18 AM UTC

mpweiher wrote: post #523

ZainRiz wrote: post #359

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I disagree. What Reddit brings to the table is: 1. Easy sharing: Subreddits, which are an easy location to share interesting information about a common topic. Creating your own website is an order of magnitude harder, especially if you want to allow anyone on the internet to post to it 2. Discoverability: You can easily discover subreddits information related to your interests. Reddit's ability to aggregate the vario…

> Creating your own website is an order of magnitude harder So let's fix that?

Post by lokedhs » Sat, Nov 16, 2019, 11:40 AM UTC

flavor8 wrote: post #543

eitland wrote: post #399

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Try. My blog got 16 visitors from another blog today. (edit: it is now 23!) Won't make me rich. But it makes me happy that I am part of rebuilding an old style web. If you write about interesting stuff, post your website below and I might add a link and I don't care about nofollow and all that SEO stuff. Maybe 5 of my visitors visit you. You won't get rich but you will be part of something.

I did, for 7 or 8 years. It was good for my writing skills (and fun) but it was a little like talking into a vacuum.

Post by spats1990 » Sat, Nov 16, 2019, 12:03 PM UTC

friendlybus wrote: post #494

dunnevens wrote: post #344

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The toxic elements didn't exist invisibly. They bled out regularly into unrelated subreddits. For example, the fat phobia of /r/FatPeopleHate seemed ever present for a time. Popped up in many different places. And then after the sub was banned and many of its users banned, that particular form of insults & speech mostly vanished. It was a huge quality of life improvement for the site overall. There have been similar…

New hate groups and power sub's pop up with the same toxicity but on a different theme. The psycho redpill has been replaced with a version for women. Reddit doesn't want a 'better' site it just cycles the garbage to fit the trends.