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Re: Reddit files to go public

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twelvechairs wrote: post #403
nunez wrote: post #334

Good! I‘ll go long on them. Reddit is the ONLY place on the Internet where you can simultaneously watch garbage recycled content from TikTok and visit extremely-niche and highly knowledgeable communities in the same session. Heck, I get my HN updates from Reddit now. Facebook/Instagram/TikTok are nothing like this in that the info you get is wholly dependent on your social graph. Twitter has very high quality content…

Problem with Reddit is being very replaceable. People don't want to lose their facebook/instagram/linkedin page because it has their content and also personal connections. Profiles on Reddit are more like Digg / Slashdot / Kuro5hin - few care about losing their post history and connections so when a competing site comes in with better features (fewer ads / different site-wide moderation approach / not looking so awfu…

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Re: Reddit files to go public

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Post by petepete »

jdgoesmarching wrote: post #426
pithon wrote: post #335

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I only last as long there as old.reddit.com does.

I last as long as the APIs allow Apollo to be amazing.

I've been saying this for years.

Reddit's official app is very poor and they've broken the mobile web experience by choice.

The day Sync stops working will be my final day on the platform.

Re: Reddit files to go public

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Post by raxxorrax »

ungamedplayer wrote: post #409
jonny_eh wrote: post #385

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> Reddit is the ONLY place on the Internet where you can simultaneously watch garbage recycled content from TikTok and visit extremely-niche and highly knowledgeable communities in the same session. Sounds similar to Twitter and YouTube.

I have yet to find any quality content on twitter.

There is some, but it is mostly not the popular content or anything that trends. It is people orientated, so for me it is mostly a curated list of links.

Re: Reddit files to go public

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Post by duped »

mschuster91 wrote: post #377
throwawaysea wrote: post #366

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Didn’t Reddit ban a lot of the porn content during the same “progressive” ban wave they banned gender critical, the Donald, etc?

It's rare that Reddit bans nsfw content, the only major porn ban I'm aware of is r/jailbait and that one was banned for very good reasons. r/TheFappening and r/creepshots weren't porn but sexual exploitation. In any case, these three bans were many years ago.

It wasn't an outright ban, but they removed nsfw subs from /r/all this year.

Re: Reddit files to go public

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Post by mdp2021 »

anyfactor wrote: post #258
henning wrote: post #200

The Reddit of 2006 where tutorials on generating HTML in Lisp rocket to the top of the homepage is long gone. I can't imagine investing in an ad company that is fueled by clickbait and outrage the way Reddit is. Plus, some percentage of the userbase will always run aggressive ad blockers and be impossible to effectvely monetize. However, my brain works very differently from other people's, so I could be wrong.

My personal last strands of hope for Reddit are - their API which is still available to public without hoops to jump through. The downvote button. And the usabillity of old.reddit. Some communities that are still well moderated and strikes a good balance between open to questions and not open to stupid questions. Beyond that I stopped using mainstream reddit as a value source.

> API

I just checked: the API does not (seem to) allow to retrieve items by date. Which means that a major fault of the site cannot be fixed through the API: reading the post history through random access, e.g. the posts of a specific date in a section.

(Although, one could probably harvest through the API an index of "fullnames" (IDs) and associate them to their dates or use them directly for random access in the queries - "list starting with the newest, fill DB of IDs and give me the last; list from that last, fill DB of IDs and give me the new last; loop until end". Not really the most practical way to use a repository.)

> downvote

The worst attack against civilization after - (I can't think of anything) - is an encouragement to vote according to "how does that make you feel".

Re: Reddit files to go public

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Post by raxxorrax »

chx wrote: post #373
silisili wrote: post #340

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Fascinating, thanks! This got me to thinking though...almost every news outlet flubs covering deeply technical things folks here would be familiar with, and we all have a laugh. But we get our news from them and generally believe it, so do we all suffer from it to some extent?

No, this effect is, to quote itself, baloney. The underlying presumption of it is every person working at a paper is equally wrong about the topic they write. However, most newspapers are focused on politics and so those might be better. I would not expect a good analysis on the Palestinian conflict from Linus Tech Tips nor a good analysis on the latest graphics cards from Foreign Affairs.

The weird thing is that you could expect a comment on the Palestinian conflict from Linus Tech Tips...

Re: Reddit files to go public

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Post by alasdair_ »

qaq wrote: post #416
aahortwwy wrote: post #370

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> Reddit can fit nicely into the metaverse Why do people keep talking about the metaverse like it already exists and is a huge part of our future? It's vaporware right now. Are we all so susceptible to marketing that we've just accepted that if Meta is going all-in on a thing it must be both real and a guaranteed win?

It does exist in the form of Roblox :)

Since we’re talking about Reddit, my take is that Roblox is Digg and Rec Room (which is VR-native and has much better tech even though it currently has lower user numbers) will end up being the “Reddit” of the space.

Re: Reddit files to go public

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Post by alasdair_ »

dustymcp wrote: post #380
aahortwwy wrote: post #370

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> Reddit can fit nicely into the metaverse Why do people keep talking about the metaverse like it already exists and is a huge part of our future? It's vaporware right now. Are we all so susceptible to marketing that we've just accepted that if Meta is going all-in on a thing it must be both real and a guaranteed win?

I have 1 Friend that has var goggles, and he does not like the chat funktion it just seems like its dead in the water unless var Prices come down hard..

Quest is under $300 and is fantastic for what you get and is completely self-contained and portable.

More importantly, Meta and Apple are both launching AR glasses next near (or maybe Q1 2023) and at that point AR will start to have its “iphone” moment where it starts our nice then suddenly everyone has one.

Re: Reddit files to go public

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Post by raffomania »

henning wrote: post #200

The Reddit of 2006 where tutorials on generating HTML in Lisp rocket to the top of the homepage is long gone. I can't imagine investing in an ad company that is fueled by clickbait and outrage the way Reddit is. Plus, some percentage of the userbase will always run aggressive ad blockers and be impossible to effectvely monetize. However, my brain works very differently from other people's, so I could be wrong.

I've been following lemmy [0] for a while, a federated reddit alternative in the same spirit as mastodon. It's still very small, but I think as monetization pressure on reddit increases, people will look for other places to post and this might be one of them :)

edit: add the link [0] https://join-lemmy.org/

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