I think the voting system on reddit confuses users into thinking it's a democracy. It's a business owned by Tencent and Fidelity investments with a valuation of over $10B.
Reddit permanently bans account of user advocating Lemmy migration
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Re: Reddit permanently bans account of user advocating Lemmy migration
#112Earlier 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.
Looking at the most recent cases of Doge, Twitter and Tesla a while ago, I'd say that Musk is skilled in accumulating goodwill and capital. Honestly, I think going public again with Twitter could be a smart thing. Not now, but later when more ppl dropped their grudge. Retails would probably be more inclined to buy Twitter stock rather than banks. There are also rumours that Twitter will be cash flow positive by the e…
> when more ppl dropped their grudge
Do we have reason to believe that's going to happen anytime soon? I was startled to hear an 80 year old elderly woman look at my car and then say "I'll never give that man any of my money." So it's pretty mainstream now.
Elon has always had a tendency to talk out of his ass, but mostly nobody paid attention. Now the whole world watches, but he doesn't stop acting out. He'd have to cut back on the nonsense before memories can start to fade.
Re: Reddit permanently bans account of user advocating Lemmy migration
#113Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
A better way forward is to really take the design back to primitives. Reddit/NH/Twitter/Youtube/Google all default to favoring freshness. I believe this design assumption to be a mistake. A lot of what gets posted would be better served by some hybrid of a wiki+chatroom/forum. For example, Ill just pick a thread that gets posted every week. In the what else will I like subreddit, there is constantly a "post your best…
You might like kbin.social and/or aether.app, both of which offer different takes on the concept of federated link aggregators.
Re: Reddit permanently bans account of user advocating Lemmy migration
#114Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
A better way forward is to really take the design back to primitives. Reddit/NH/Twitter/Youtube/Google all default to favoring freshness. I believe this design assumption to be a mistake. A lot of what gets posted would be better served by some hybrid of a wiki+chatroom/forum. For example, Ill just pick a thread that gets posted every week. In the what else will I like subreddit, there is constantly a "post your best…
You're definitely on to something, I overtime stopped contributing to those questions because i was annoyed I just wrote a thoughtful answer recently no one cares about now.
But i think this misses the point. Like MMOs around WoW there was a lot of small games, eve, everquest, runescape, UO etc... Each had it own special thing and small community. Just like how forums and other small communities existed online. WoW came and just swallowed up everything and then some, introducing tons of new people to the genre. This is what Reddit did to forums. We could make a better Wow maybe, but nothing happened after wow in MMOs. WoW slowly died off in popularity and people moved on to new genres or left entirely leaving a new generation to disover their own games. I guess I expect this to happen to Reddit, a slow death from now on from bad decisions and boredom.
In 5 years someone will come along and make reddit classic, we'll poke around a bit and get a kick out of the nostalgia and forget about it again.
Re: Reddit permanently bans account of user advocating Lemmy migration
#115I 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…
Yes, I want a reddit clone with a functioning website and app.
Re: Reddit permanently bans account of user advocating Lemmy migration
#116I 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…
Exactly. I always thought Mastadon could have been so much more successful if they had just proxied cached versions of the most popular instances through a single larger server. Sure it would give Mastadon the power to pick and choose who it wants to host, but if you want to go join a different instance you are more than welcome to. It would just substantially streamline the process for your mainstream user.
> Exactly. I always thought Mastadon could have been so much more successful if they had just proxied cached versions of the most popular instances through a single larger server.
Relays serve this purpose. I use one on my personal one-user instance.
https://joinfediverse.wiki/index.php?title=Fediverse_relays&...
Re: Reddit permanently bans account of user advocating Lemmy migration
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Gotta ask the users who decided on it. It could be as simple as "it popped up first on google".
FWIW, I heard of Lemmy loosely before this (But I have spent a lot of time looking at alternatives to reddit). I heard of Throat as well be never browsed it. Never heard of rDrama.
Re: Reddit permanently bans account of user advocating Lemmy migration
#118I 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…
I've had a better time on Mastodon than I ever did on Twitter actually finding people to talk to.
The problem isn’t the platform, it’s the people. If mastodon got as popular as twitter the level of discourse would fall to the same level.
Re: Reddit permanently bans account of user advocating Lemmy migration
#119IMO the FTC and courts (supreme?) should be stepping in here, and more generally, stating that communications platforms must not censor freedom of speech, nor censor in an anticompettive way. If I want to talk about Hondas on Twitter, Elon should be barred from censoring that. If I want to talk about Bitchute on Youtube, Alphabet must allow that. If I want to use my macbook pro to write windows software, Apple must n…
That's not how freedom of speech works at all. These are not publicly funded platforms. They are businesses and as such need to censor speech in order to maintain relationships with businesses. Twitter is a great example. They start to loosen up on the hate speech and advertisers flee while simultaneously clamping down on anti government speech. I do not support free speech absolutism for private businesses because o…
Multiple people saying the same thing so I guess I'll reply to yours.
However these are communications platforms. So is it clear that if AT&T wanted it could say I cannot talk about my silly hats only club, they could intervene to block my communications?
Or if my landlord felt I shouldn't have a specific sign (not signs in general), or even to just say words they dont agree with, they could bar that from their property?
Or if I wanted to wear a democrat colored pair of shorts to a (business owned) pool they could bar that dress code?
These are all business contexts in which I'm using the business owners property as a customer/consumer and hypothetically being barred from an action. I dont see how it's so different for communications platforms like Reddit/FB/YT
Perhaps America is far less free than I realized.
Re: Reddit permanently bans account of user advocating Lemmy migration
#120IMO the FTC and courts (supreme?) should be stepping in here, and more generally, stating that communications platforms must not censor freedom of speech, nor censor in an anticompettive way. If I want to talk about Hondas on Twitter, Elon should be barred from censoring that. If I want to talk about Bitchute on Youtube, Alphabet must allow that. If I want to use my macbook pro to write windows software, Apple must n…
What you are asking for is a new law. There is nothing wrong with that! Just important to understand that the FTC and the courts don’t make laws. They only work with the existing laws. If you want new laws the legislature is the proper place to ask for it. There is an other problem. What you are asking for is probably going to have issues with the first amendment. This might sound weird, and you probably will feel so…
There's been discussion of applying Common Carrier protections and limitations to ISPs, why not to places that host public discourse?
I agree though, a new set of laws that govern online spaces is probably needed (despite my trepidation of the current crop of legislators and their general/basic understanding of tech).