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Re: Reddit files to go public

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Post by dataengineer56 » Thu, Dec 16, 2021, 9:35 AM UTC

dageshi wrote: post #486

dataengineer56 wrote: post #440

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Reddit is democratizing in a sense Apart from the bit where all of the main subreddits (and therefore the front page) are controlled by completely unvetted, unpaid moderators, who tend to be Extremely Online People. I don't understand how Facebook are continuously attacked by politicians for not moderating content well enough when they have towers full of paid moderators, while Reddit continues unaffected. > Reddit…

Facebook gets attacked because politicians believe it can be used to nudge peoples opinions en mass but in a way that's hard to detect. Reddit doesn't because everyone can see what's going on. You might not like it, but you can see it.

I'd have agreed with you 10 years ago when the average Redditor was arguably smarter than your typical social media user and each subreddit's alliances were clear. These days I completely disagree and feel Reddit is more dangerous than other forms of social media.

The average Redditor still believes that they're more intelligent and believes that they're seeing balanced information (because how can upvotes and downvotes lie?), while being blind to all of the astroturfing and agendas placed by the people who run subreddits.

Re: Reddit files to go public

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Post by sideshowb » Thu, Dec 16, 2021, 9:36 AM UTC

iaml wrote: post #413

bogota wrote: post #268

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I mean… browse through HN for the day. According to its users you shouldn’t work at any company that pays well because they are all evil. At a certain point you just don’t care what people are writing on forums.

There's a bunch of them that don't seem too bad: netflix, spotify, discord. Maybe even apple, depending on your definition of evil.

Spotify? Really?

Re: Reddit files to go public

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Post by streamofdigits » Thu, Dec 16, 2021, 9:39 AM UTC

The main data point from the success of reddit is that quality interactions in large scale online platforms require an interest based user interface.

Other than that it is almost guaranteed now that its buggy (feels like its held together with tape) and ad-ladden overall experience will be locked-in and get worse (like it happened with facebook)

People might want to hedge their bets and look into open source lemmy and federated versions of the reddit concept https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy

Re: Reddit files to go public

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Post by vultour » Thu, Dec 16, 2021, 9:42 AM UTC

BLKNSLVR wrote: post #245

yalogin wrote: post #79

This is not good. The only reason I am still using Reddit is because of the old.reddit.com interface. Feels like an IPO will make them retire it at some point.

I only use teddit.net to access reddit these days. On those odd occasions that I follow a link to the actual reddit site I'm reminded why I avoid it: - Pop-up to download app - Pop-up has been un-clearable on a number of occasions - Having to click "read more" to see more than two posts - Having to click a link to a new page to follow a thread more than two / three replies deep (and often finding that it's only a sin…

The old interface actually solves all those issues. I used to be in disbelief how anybody could survive using the new design for more than 15 seconds but then realised that the way people use Reddit is completely different nowadays. It turned into some sort of 9gag/instagram amalgamation where people scroll through an endless feed of images, enabled by the instagram-like format that is the default with the new interface.

Re: Reddit files to go public

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Post by lordgrenville » Thu, Dec 16, 2021, 9:45 AM UTC

raxxorrax wrote: post #438

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…

> Anecdotally, a VERY LARGE percentage of my Google searches end in “site:reddit.com” these days. Compared to platforms like Discord they have the advantage that their content is actually discoverable by search engines. I hate the push to Discord since that basically makes you invisible. I get that it is convenient, but it has a lot of negative side effects that aren't obvious at first.

And in addition even if you're in the server and find what you're looking for, it's very hard to concentrate all the responses to a specific post, so you might find the question but need to scroll for ages to see if someone answered.

Not that either of these issues deterred people from using IRC.

Re: Reddit files to go public

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Post by throw_m239339 » Thu, Dec 16, 2021, 9:48 AM UTC

thinkingemote wrote: post #462

Would this be the first public porn platform? A flippant remark, but Reddit is a not insignificant facilitator of pornography alongside many great safe for work subreddits and we will probably see them trying to stop this before or after going public. That or changing the terms of use for users to be 18 from the current 13.

Plenty of hardcore pornography on Twitter, and not just legal one, which got me wondering why their app is getting a pass on IOS when Tumbler didn't. At least Facebook does not permit any form of pornography.

Re: Reddit files to go public

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Post by hellbannedguy » Thu, Dec 16, 2021, 9:49 AM UTC

silisili wrote: post #402

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…

Genuinely curious...are you old enough to remember Digg and what happened to it? I don't mean that to be patronizing...but I remember being on Digg and Reddit being a weird alternative. And after a series of huge mistakes, almost overnight Reddit was flooded with users and Digg relegated to nothing. It really opened my eyes to how quickly an empire built only on its users can disappear.

But Reddit is a monopoly now. Digg was never a monopoly, or had near the number of idiot customers.

Re: Reddit files to go public

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Post by cblconfederate » Thu, Dec 16, 2021, 9:51 AM UTC

aahortwwy wrote: post #423

qaq wrote: post #416

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It does exist in the form of Roblox :)

Roblox could be considered a metaverse, sure[0], but the metaverse implies a ubiquitousness that no offering so far has achieved. [0] And, honestly, I see Meta's play here as the Google Plus to Roblox's Facebook.

> ubiquitousness that no offering so far has achieved.

The internet does

Re: Reddit files to go public

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Post by gremlinsinc » Thu, Dec 16, 2021, 9:52 AM UTC

throwaway1777 wrote: post #266

mightyquacks wrote: post #210

Reddit used to be amazing Now it's like a red flag in your resume if you worked for reddit Then they made a whole mess on the homepage. This is what happens when you hire mediocre engineers. Its like junior engineers who cant write code. Reddit mobile is not bad, but stop trying to make me install it. There are people who only wants to use web. But your web engineers are garbage their ads is incredibly bad. there are…

Taking shots at the engineers is too far. Reddit is about a million times more stable than it used to be a few years ago. Also I don’t think Reddit or the Internet needs “saving”. They’re both more successful than ever by any common metric whether we like the direction they’re going or not.

I'm going on 2 months now, where I cannot login to my account on 3rd party android apps. I can using an alt account. I'm not banned, or anything. It's just a known problem -- probably dealing w/ a cookie, or setting, or variable...

I've tried turning on/off 2fa, resetting my password, etc... nothing works. i've contacted reddit and submitted to their help sub, crickets.

So yeah, taking shots at the engineers imho is fair game, this is a major issue. I can't even go to /user/prefs/apps to enable/disable apps attached to my account which seems like it could be a security vulnerability. I always get "You broke reddit"..

when I try logging in on Relay or ANY other 3rd party mobile app it hangs after I'm logged in and can't handle the token exchange part of the oauth flow where the data is passed back to the app.

If you call this stable.... I'd hate to see unstable. The mobile app is a no go... I like to be able to change views between small cards, gallery, and large-card depending on what I'm using reddit for...

Re: Reddit files to go public

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Post by danuker » Thu, Dec 16, 2021, 9:52 AM UTC

streamofdigits wrote: post #503

The main data point from the success of reddit is that quality interactions in large scale online platforms require an interest based user interface. Other than that it is almost guaranteed now that its buggy (feels like its held together with tape) and ad-ladden overall experience will be locked-in and get worse (like it happened with facebook) People might want to hedge their bets and look into open source lemmy an…

I use the old UI, which is lean, fast even on my old laptop, and not buggy.

Fortunately I still have a setting for my account to do so. I would stop using it without this setting.