Aaron Swartz would be disappointed in Reddit's actions such as this.
We can carry on his spirit through our work. Lemmy is a great example of that spirit.
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People might want to avoid having the same thing happen with a reddit clone 10-20 years in the future. Federation allows communities to decide their own fate instead of having decisions handed out from on high
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#93Is Musk running Reddit, now, too, as a hobby? This all feels oddly reminiscent of Twitter at the end of 2022, when you could briefly be banned for merely uttering the dread word 'mastodon'. Reddit seems to be doing a mistake-for-mistake replay of Twitter's recent API restriction/protectionism screwups.
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#94Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you don't want to post porn, Gab allows all legal speech otherwise. > We strive to ensure that the First Amendment remains the Website’s standard for content moderation. We will make best efforts to ensure that all content moderation decisions and enforcement of these terms of service does not punish users for exercising their God-given right to speak freely. > As a general rule, written expression that is protect…
The first post I got when I opened that link was from a user going by "Kitler" (based on the profile picture, it's a kitten version of Adolf Hitler) Kitler's post was culture war stuff about homosexuals. Clicking on his profile, I get taken to a bunch of racist and anti-semetic posts. Gab is for a certain kind of person .
You know how people in California claim that the homeless problem there is due to them having programs to support the homeless, and that if other states did a better job their state would have less of a problem? Well if you are basically the only website that allows all legal speech, you are going to see a lot of stuff that was censored elsewhere. I'd love to see a version of this created by a more left wing group of people to balance things out, and whouldve recommended it here if it existed, but they seem to have abandoned free speech as a concept entirely.
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#95I hope Lemmy does well, but I don't think it's going to replace Reddit (and that's likely fine in the eyes of the Lemmy team) Nobody wants a federated, slow, difficult to use version of reddit. Nobody wants to choose a server. We just want reddit without the bullshit. It's the same issue with Mastodon. Mastodon is down over 1 million users since last December, and I bet that's related to how difficult it is to sign u…
Mastodon's issues are: (1) poor discovery (2) if I am on one mastodon site, I can not just retweet that post, I have to go to my server and then cut-and-paste a link to that other site. (3) no quote tweeting, important for vitality. (4) and most importantly, no ranked/AI-managed feed. Thus it is filled with noise. In many ways, Mastodon is a purposely janked product because people don't want to make things easy to go…
For a lot of us the lack of ranked AI managed feed is the feature. I was using Tweetbot on Twitter for that exact reason.
Most people consume Toots by going through their feed, retweeting is just a button away, just like on Twitter.
Quote tweet is definitely lacking, and thankfully is coming up soon according to their CEO and lead developer.
And yes, poor discovery, the search is awful. It's quite a lot better with hashtags and following hashtags in your feed (great feature IMO), but they need to work on that.
Personally I find that while there are flaws, they are smaller than having to endure the amount of spam, ads and garbage I see on twitter. Conversations with people are good and insightful. It's just better for my mental health as well, less of AI generated outrage takes showing up.
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#96Earlier quoted context omitted.
If Elon had kept the company public, any one with two neurons able to fire would have been shorting it and would have cleaned up. With his leadership and decision making, Twitter would have gone to 0 by now.
>With his leadership and decision making He has other companies that you can short if you truly believe this.
Only one I can think of is Tesla that's public, and it certainly has its own issues.
SpaceX is private (and Shotwell seems to be running it just fine), Twitter is private, Musk is no longer involved with Paypal, Boring Co. is private... am I missing anything?
Re: Reddit permanently bans account of user advocating Lemmy migration
#97I hope Lemmy does well, but I don't think it's going to replace Reddit (and that's likely fine in the eyes of the Lemmy team) Nobody wants a federated, slow, difficult to use version of reddit. Nobody wants to choose a server. We just want reddit without the bullshit. It's the same issue with Mastodon. Mastodon is down over 1 million users since last December, and I bet that's related to how difficult it is to sign u…
> We just want reddit without the bullshit.
Rhetorically: What are you willing to do for it?
How are you willing to change?
The way reddit was offered in its early days was a bait and switch. It wasn't real.
Re: Reddit permanently bans account of user advocating Lemmy migration
#98Let me guess; This is one of the accounts that was just posting the same "Migrate to lemmy!" message in every single thread talking about the protest next week. Spam is spam guys.
Everything about this seems incredibly suspect. Reddit wouldn't ever ban anyone for suggesting an alternative (there's a whole subreddit dedicated to that). This just seems to be a shill capitalizing on the news, plain and simple.
>Reddit wouldn't ever ban anyone for suggesting an alternative
They absolutely do. Try linking to rdrama.net, you'll get shadowbanned.
Re: Reddit permanently bans account of user advocating Lemmy migration
#99Let me guess; This is one of the accounts that was just posting the same "Migrate to lemmy!" message in every single thread talking about the protest next week. Spam is spam guys.
Everything about this seems incredibly suspect. Reddit wouldn't ever ban anyone for suggesting an alternative (there's a whole subreddit dedicated to that). This just seems to be a shill capitalizing on the news, plain and simple.
Seems to be working too. I hadn't even heard of lemmy until I saw this post on HN.
Re: Reddit permanently bans account of user advocating Lemmy migration
#100I hope Lemmy does well, but I don't think it's going to replace Reddit (and that's likely fine in the eyes of the Lemmy team) Nobody wants a federated, slow, difficult to use version of reddit. Nobody wants to choose a server. We just want reddit without the bullshit. It's the same issue with Mastodon. Mastodon is down over 1 million users since last December, and I bet that's related to how difficult it is to sign u…
do a lot of people even want more social media and internet communities? i wasted an embarrassing amount of time on reddit in hind sight. this all reminds me of when i finally burnt out on wow. i quit, sold my account (at the end of wotlk, i think wow declined after that too?) and didn't play video games for years after. personally i feel the same way about reddit, do i really want this all again in my life? idk, im…
These social networks are very addictive, you might start out with genuine interest but it becomes gamified social interactions pretty quickly. I bet you’ll go to a new site with the intention of commenting on a specific topic, but then get wrapped up commenting for points. That’s how I felt about Reddit at least, and realizing it is what made me quit.
I joined this site because I thought it would break that gamified social interaction loop by being tied to a particular topic. But actually, I’ve realized I speculate about my comment scores even here while making them. I think this one would have done well, it sort of begrudgingly admires Reddit while also saying negative things about it, and social media in general. People here like talk in the abstract about social media, I think because it plays into the hope that maybe we’re somehow outside it. This comment is also self-depreciating and, I think, fairly relatable (since I’m sure most of the commenters here have some history with using Reddit, and possibly quitting it). Of course, now that I’ve mentioned the points for this comment, it will almost certainly be downvoted to oblivion, because that’s like rule 0 of this game. Unless I can save it by being sufficiently meta, maybe…