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Not according to GDPR and its right to be forgotten. The data subject always has the last say about data that concerns them. Just because data about me exists doesn't give unlicensed third parties unlimited rights to it.
Good luck with enforcement.
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Mine's older than yours and I don't know what you mean, the DNC targeted reddit? Dramatic shift? Reddit started far left (being focused on science and tech) even horse-shoeing to the point where it attracted a big Ron Paul fan base. There was an r/obama before users could make subreddits. It's been heading right or center-right ever since the_donald (2015), r/conservative, etc have gotten so huge, if there's been any…
Wait - you seriously and unironically believe reddit has become _more_ rightwing in the past 7 years?
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One of my favorite ways of discovering niche content has been browsing /r/all/gilded and taking a look at the variety of highlights throughout the site that never make it to the front page or other kinds of publicity. I dug in there one time and found a fascinating obituary for a user on a subreddit for people living with addiction -- full of some touchingly personal and weirdly public stories. Following the user's p…
/r/chonkers is the holy grail of reddit. I was sad it took me 10 years to find that subreddit
> With this latest update, for the first time in sixteen years everything on Reddit is now searchable - users, posts, communities, and now comments - making Reddit one of the first platforms with this capability. I mean this is a straight up blatant lie, every single forum/social site out there has proper search and has for years, I know all of mine do. Most of them you even have image search. So honest question, how…
It's also a lie because "everything" on reddit is still not in fact searchable; buried in the comments on the announcement post, they admit that pre-2020 comments are still not indexed: https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/u3oz2x/whats_up_wit...
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Mine's older than yours and I don't know what you mean, the DNC targeted reddit? Dramatic shift? Reddit started far left (being focused on science and tech) even horse-shoeing to the point where it attracted a big Ron Paul fan base. There was an r/obama before users could make subreddits. It's been heading right or center-right ever since the_donald (2015), r/conservative, etc have gotten so huge, if there's been any…
They're referring to Correct the Record, which flooded the site with fake accounts to push narratives that supported the US Democatic party. It was really obvious when something unexpected happened, like that video of Hilary collapsing and having to be pushed into a vehicle during the presidential campaign - for several hours the sockpuppet accounts didn't know what to say so comments from regular users started makin…
In case anyone is in the same boat as me, heres an article on the subject: https://www.thedailybeast.com/hillary-pac-spends-dollar1-mil...
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Mine's older than yours and I don't know what you mean, the DNC targeted reddit? Dramatic shift? Reddit started far left (being focused on science and tech) even horse-shoeing to the point where it attracted a big Ron Paul fan base. There was an r/obama before users could make subreddits. It's been heading right or center-right ever since the_donald (2015), r/conservative, etc have gotten so huge, if there's been any…
> It's been heading right or center-right ever since the_donald (2015), r/conservative, etc have gotten so huge, if there's been any political shift. Wait - you seriously and unironically believe reddit has become _more_ rightwing in the past 7 years?
For example, I used to love /r/conspiracy which is now rather overrun with a particular kind of conspiracy theorist and I no longer feel welcome.
Speaking from the gut I'd say more communities have slid to the left than the right, but nearly all of my communities have been more politicized and it reduces the amount I use the service considerably.
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But we're talking petabytes of text comments and an index of that would be a lot larger. How do you access that data fast enough to enable search?
Succinct full text indexes can be substantially smaller than the source text. It depends on the zero order entropy of the text. If things are highly repetitive, a very small index might be feasible. Usually lookup times are linearly proportional to query size, with logarithmic factors in database size.
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Mine's older than yours and I don't know what you mean, the DNC targeted reddit? Dramatic shift? Reddit started far left (being focused on science and tech) even horse-shoeing to the point where it attracted a big Ron Paul fan base. There was an r/obama before users could make subreddits. It's been heading right or center-right ever since the_donald (2015), r/conservative, etc have gotten so huge, if there's been any…
They're referring to Correct the Record, which flooded the site with fake accounts to push narratives that supported the US Democatic party. It was really obvious when something unexpected happened, like that video of Hilary collapsing and having to be pushed into a vehicle during the presidential campaign - for several hours the sockpuppet accounts didn't know what to say so comments from regular users started makin…
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Mine's older than yours and I don't know what you mean, the DNC targeted reddit? Dramatic shift? Reddit started far left (being focused on science and tech) even horse-shoeing to the point where it attracted a big Ron Paul fan base. There was an r/obama before users could make subreddits. It's been heading right or center-right ever since the_donald (2015), r/conservative, etc have gotten so huge, if there's been any…
They're referring to Correct the Record, which flooded the site with fake accounts to push narratives that supported the US Democatic party. It was really obvious when something unexpected happened, like that video of Hilary collapsing and having to be pushed into a vehicle during the presidential campaign - for several hours the sockpuppet accounts didn't know what to say so comments from regular users started makin…
Same thing happened after Trump's 2016 election win. For a day or two, it was possible to post something non-leftist to /r/politics without having it be mercilessly downvoted; as if the shills were awaiting orders.
Sometime around the night of the DNC primary in 2015 there was a dramatic shift in the content on Reddit. If you were a frequent visitor of the homepage and /all at the time, you will know exactly what I am referring to. The product has gone downhill ever since. Comment search is nice because it enables users to find interesting content directly in the good niche subreddits.
Indeed.
It's especially visible when the effect temporarily abates. After Trump's 2016 election win, for a day or two, it was possible to post something non-leftist to /r/politics without having it be mercilessly downvoted; as if the shills were awaiting orders.