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Third-party Reddit apps are being crushed by price increases

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Re: Third-party Reddit apps are being crushed by price increases

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Post by rglullis »

plagiarist wrote: post #394
rglullis wrote: post #389

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> Can't I get access to the social network direct from the source, for free? For free? No, you can't. - You (or someone else) will have to develop the software. The source code doesn't just show up magically on github. - You (or someone else) will have to test the software, triage bugs, help with documentation, etc. - You (or someone else) will have to pay for the servers. - You (or someone else) will have to do cont…

It's funny that you include content moderation in there when that was one of my requests. Are you moderating content beyond your legal minimum requirements? Come to think of it, did you write all of the Fediverse software you are using? Are you paying those developers monthly? Or did it... appear for free on GitHub? The sense of entitlement here is something else. I think you would do better if you spend you time thi…

> Are you moderating content beyond your legal minimum requirements?

Yeah, I am. But you know how? By charging for access. It is surprisingly effective at keeping trolls away.

> Are you paying those developers monthly?

Yes, I do support / contribute to their patreon and I also have a couple of PRs on Mastodon documentation to my name.

Time (and my allergy to PHP) permitting, I am also planning to work on Pixelfed and their LDAP authentication.

> I have no proof you would not be using my data, and I would be linking that with a credit card.

You can pay me with crypto as well.

Re: Third-party Reddit apps are being crushed by price increases

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Post by tomrod »

slantaclaus wrote: post #390
tasty_freeze wrote: post #303

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Reddit is sprawling. There are thousands of non-political subreddits. Yeah, if you are following the default feed and reading r/politics, or any of the drama subreddits, you are going to have a bad time. Are you curious about what information is being sent through your house between 10KHz and 6GHz? Curious what your water meter is broadcasting to the neighborhood? https://www.reddit.com/r/RTLSDR/ Feel like some short…

I feel like all of Reddit has become political, even the niche forums. It’s all the same moaning and groaning

Seems like that is because politics itself has reached intractable enshittification, not necessarily Reddit. Reddit is more or less reflective of the internet writ large.

Re: Third-party Reddit apps are being crushed by price increases

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Post by p_j_w »

bmarquez wrote: post #383
p_j_w wrote: post #380

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>Twitter is a better experience than ever for the users The fact that I was getting notifications on my phone to look at a tweet from a Blue Checkmark that I didn't follow says otherwise.

To be fair, I had this same issue pre-Elon. You have to go into your settings and turn off everything except "Related to you and your tweets"

>I had this same issue pre-Elon

It didn't happen to me once before he started charging money for blue checkmarks.

>You have to go into your settings

Too late, app deleted.

Re: Third-party Reddit apps are being crushed by price increases

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Post by lapcat »

noarchy wrote: post #396
lapcat wrote: post #136

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> That's the point though. It collects a bunch of external sources in one spot that are all related to the same issue -- and provides the context. You're missing the point, which is that this submission is just the latest in a long string of duplicate submissions, some of which have already been marked [dupe] by the moderators. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36142285 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3614241…

>You're missing the point, which is that this submission is just the latest in a long string of duplicate submissions, some of which have already been marked [dupe] by the moderators. Then let the moderators moderate, and you can choose a different hill upon which to die, so to speak.

> Then let the moderators moderate

They did: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36167892

> you can choose a different hill upon which to die, so to speak.

I didn't die on the hill, I conquered it. ;-)

Re: Third-party Reddit apps are being crushed by price increases

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Post by noarchy »

lapcat wrote: post #404
noarchy wrote: post #396

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>You're missing the point, which is that this submission is just the latest in a long string of duplicate submissions, some of which have already been marked [dupe] by the moderators. Then let the moderators moderate, and you can choose a different hill upon which to die, so to speak.

> Then let the moderators moderate They did: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36167892 > you can choose a different hill upon which to die, so to speak. I didn't die on the hill, I conquered it. ;-)

>I didn't die on the hill, I conquered it. ;-)

Not really. They did. But I hope playing pretend moderator was fulfilling for you.

Re: Third-party Reddit apps are being crushed by price increases

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Post by sgift »

danudey wrote: post #316
tremere wrote: post #8

Reddit is past its expiration date anyway and I'm surprised no one has created a challenger site. Perhaps this was due to Reddit's friendliness toward programmatic access but it seems they are taking that away. This is a good opportunity to create a new community, and essentially take back messaging from the corporations (let's be real about what reddit is) and put it back into the hands of the people.

Let's be clear though: this is exactly what happened. Digg was the place to go, and then they fucked it up and everyone migrated to Reddit. Now Reddit is fucking it up, and even if everyone migrates somewhere else, that new somewhere else is going to fuck it up too once they get to the point of "we need to be profitable at all costs". What we actually need is some way to convince users to pay for the services they us…

No, what we need is someone who is just happy with a business that pays for itself and gives a healthy profit for the owner, not "omfg, shitloads of money". Reddit is - as far as I know - profitable. All employees are paid, all costs are paid, and the owners get their share. That's a stable arrangement. Greed is what's unbalancing it. And despite what some people think: Greed is not good. And Gordon Gecko was the villain.

Re: Third-party Reddit apps are being crushed by price increases

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Post by bedobi »

phreack wrote: post #355

The only app I use to browse Reddit is old.reddit.com. It's still great on mobile if you have a browser with proper text reflow (ie. Opera on Android, since all others can't be bothered). But everytime I end up seeing the "new" design it's instantly repelling, I can't browse it even once. This is Digg all over again!

thanks, you just saved my procrastinating on reddit on mobile (it's fine in Firefox for Android btw)

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Post by lapcat »

noarchy wrote: post #405
lapcat wrote: post #404

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> Then let the moderators moderate They did: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36167892 > you can choose a different hill upon which to die, so to speak. I didn't die on the hill, I conquered it. ;-)

>I didn't die on the hill, I conquered it. ;-) Not really. They did. But I hope playing pretend moderator was fulfilling for you.

I pointed out a dupe, which is an ordinary, everyday thing done on HN. Nothing unusual there.

For some strange reason, interestica (and now you) chose to argue with me about it, futilely, as it turns out. I wasn't the one dying on a hill.

My understanding is that the moderators often see comments pointing out a dupe, or pointing out that an article title is missing a (YEAR), and such comments are helpful. Indeed, I've seen them thank some such comments. Moreover, it's also a signal to other readers of the submission.

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Post by Pxtl »

peruvian wrote: post #280
justaman wrote: post #148

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The moderators of major subreddits are extremely authoritarian. There must be a middle ground between free-for-all and thought police.

This sounds like mods in any forum, except maybe HN. It's not a reddit problem.

HN has very opinionated mods, it's just that what they're opinionated about is primarily a matter of tone rather than a matter of content. I mean it's their site, I might disagree but it's their site.

Re: Third-party Reddit apps are being crushed by price increases

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Post by bee_rider »

zeekaran wrote: post #370
WorldPeas wrote: post #214

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it's probably either matrix or revolt, however I'd say matrix is the more mature/stable of the two

Matrix can replace the 1-1 and group chat function of Discord, but you would need Zulip to replace the Slack/Teams group forum function. And having them separately kinda kills the whole idea, doesn't it? That's not including that neither have screensharing. Not even sure if they have group audio.

It wouldn’t be the end of the world to have a bundle of independent open source packages held together by shims and glue.
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