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Re: Reddit files to go public

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Post by rhaksw »

mdp2021 wrote: post #445
anyfactor wrote: post #258

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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 q…

You can search by date with Pushshift, and I built in a UI for that on reveddit [1]. Just visit a subreddit page and select a date under filters.

[1] https://www.reveddit.com

Re: Reddit files to go public

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Post by andybak »

dataengineer56 wrote: post #440
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…

> 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…

> Does anyone actually care about the metaverse? Everyone I know thinks it's some kind of joke. It seems like Silicon Valley nonsense.

I care about VR as a medium and I'm worried that another round of hype will drag the whole of VR/XR down with it when it slumps again.

Still. We've been through this cycle before and it's nice to see some more investment. Hopefully it will leave some residual benefit that outweighs the damage caused by the gold rush.

It's worse this time as the metaverse hype has thrown crypto into the mix so it's not just an investor gold rush - it's an crypto one too.

Re: Reddit files to go public

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Post by deadbunny »

yjftsjthsd-h wrote: post #275
IgorPartola wrote: post #249

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I am a member of 4 closely related subreddits themed around 3D printing. Would those get split up? Would I need separate accounts for each? There are some subreddits that I found because they were cross referenced. I consider that to be a core feature.

You should still have a front page, but there's nothing but the subreddits you opt in to. All I want to kill is the site pushing content at you that you didn't explicitly ask for.

Isn't that how reddit works now? I never visit r/all and my homepage (plain old.reddit.com) is just a list of content from the subs I'm subscribed to.

Re: Reddit files to go public

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Post by raxxorrax »

throwaway1777 wrote: post #418
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…

Tiktok is not really based on your social graph. I think it’s kinda like Reddit in some ways but far less in depth content and actual interaction.

Tiktok is for a TV audience and that will bring them massive user numbers.

It can indeed be entertaining from time to time, but consumption of content is extremely passive.

Re: Reddit files to go public

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Post by hdjjhhvvhga »

smolder wrote: post #489
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…

Stop taking "the metaverse" seriously, please. It's a rich idiots dream, like a digital Fordlandia. I can hardly blame people for trying to follow trends, because following trends can be lucrative. "The metaverse" is just not the one to follow. It's nintendos virtualboy, vision getting ahead of substance, fixing problems we don't have. If it succeeds at all, it will be a testament to societies ability to bend to the…

> they should really try their hand at making a 2D world that doesn't lead people to want to die

The problem is, the "idiot's metrics", that is the engagement time as the ultimate metric of financial success, clearly show that negative content that is bad for your well-being favors them. They literally earn money from your suffering. How could you expect them to give up on that?

Re: Reddit files to go public

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Post by zpeti »

smolder wrote: post #489
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…

Stop taking "the metaverse" seriously, please. It's a rich idiots dream, like a digital Fordlandia. I can hardly blame people for trying to follow trends, because following trends can be lucrative. "The metaverse" is just not the one to follow. It's nintendos virtualboy, vision getting ahead of substance, fixing problems we don't have. If it succeeds at all, it will be a testament to societies ability to bend to the…

I used to think this but Ben Thompson changed my mind.

This meta verse thing really could be the way we work remotely soon. It works as a working space. It works for companies, it could create good work environments, and companies can afford expensive hardware to get people to work more effecively.

Think of the metaverse as a more advanced slack+zoom, not as a Minecraft/Roblox alternative.

Re: Reddit files to go public

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Post by raxxorrax »

dataengineer56 wrote: post #440
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…

> 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…

> while Reddit continues unaffected.

Don't give them ideas. Content moderation in this form basically dumped down content to the most digestible level and that is some partisan whack because people are already addicted to being outraged. Most affected are somehow news and political subs as well as national subs. You will find nothing interesting there because you don't learn about the respective cultures, you learn about typical redditors.

Any government interference has without exception been pretty bad in my opinion. You won't find quality representatives that could develop protection for online platforms anymore. Don't know why statecraft has become so much more incompetent.

> Does anyone actually care about the metaverse?

The what?

Re: Reddit files to go public

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Post by cbozeman »

unclekev wrote: post #264
cbozeman wrote: post #196

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>I'm glad he's dead - he'd probably kill himself again if he could see what's been done to the site. Not cool. Even as a joke (or whatever that was meant to be)

I don't think it's a joke at all.

What's happening - what's been happening there - is an insult to Aaron's memory.

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