why do these posts keep being removed from the HN front page?
eg: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26567842
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26557175
Reddit’s most popular subreddits go private in protest against ‘censorship’
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#42I'm still shocked Reddit is allowed into the wider ecosystem of tech infrastructure. Between hosting explicit gore content and very extreme pornography with borderline legality at best (Including under Alexis's and Steve's leadership allowing a jailbait subreddit to continue for years) I would have thought they'd be booted from AWS etc.
Well, that would be improper, so I'm glad they haven't been. Booting people off core infrastructure (IaaS, colo, DNS) for reasons outside violation of law is a very slippery slope.
The cartoon depiction of sex with minors is almost certainly illegal in many districts and countries.
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#43Reddit feels very Soviet lately. Everything is heavily manipulated and it seems like users are aware of that fact but are powerless to change anything.
> lately haven't been around reddit for long then, have you
I used "lately" in order to avoid having a back and forth debate about a specific timeframe. The heavy information manipulation has been happening for years, but it feels especially strong since 2018. I know it was happening well before that but the admins and powermods have been especially craven as of this last year.
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#44More discussion on this topic from two hours ago:
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#45Reddit as a whole is less useful since comment sections were demoted from first class citizens to something barely usable. I think they saw imgur as a threat and wanted to better replicate that experience.
Can you expand on this? I haven't noticed any change in comment section usability and I've been on reddit for 10+ years.
The new design collapses all responses below the second level (and then every two levels) while adding extreme amounts of visual distractions to gilded/awarded/... comments (personal opinion). This annoys me to no end and I presume the grandparent is referencing that.
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#46Reddit protests are always so humorous to me.
For every mod that "leaves", dozens more will gladly step up to take over.
Reddit Admins will also not think twice to remove mods that do things like this to "hurt reddit"
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#47Wait, doesnt reddit have control over it servers? It surely can revoke such rules. Looks like all this drama is to give an illusion of control and free speech. Am I missing some other dynamic at play?
It can. Reddit can simply remove all the mods from the subreddits and make them public again. Nobody should be under any illusion that they "own" their subreddits.
Eh. Reddit is very unlikely to do that. The subreddits would be overrun with trash pretty quickly.
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#48Reddit as a whole is less useful since comment sections were demoted from first class citizens to something barely usable. I think they saw imgur as a threat and wanted to better replicate that experience.
their page load times have gotten dramatically worse, now that you mention it
i.reddit.com hasn't changed in 10 years.
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#49Reddit as a whole is less useful since comment sections were demoted from first class citizens to something barely usable. I think they saw imgur as a threat and wanted to better replicate that experience.
Can you expand on this? I haven't noticed any change in comment section usability and I've been on reddit for 10+ years.
I'm guessing you don't use the new redesign.
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#50Reddit feels very Soviet lately. Everything is heavily manipulated and it seems like users are aware of that fact but are powerless to change anything.
Yeah I got off it, haven’t missed it. It seems to be a reflection of the Soviet totalitarian mindset the far left is taking nowadays.