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Re: r/ProgrammerHumor will be shutting down to protest Reddit's API changes

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Post by dylan604 »

mhitza wrote: post #8
yakshaving_jgt wrote: post #4

It’d be nice if the Haskell subreddit found a new home. I don’t know why Reddit is so generally toxic, but it is.

https://discourse.haskell.org could be that new home. However most new users would expect a programming subreddit language to exist.

maybe that's the problem? there are much better avenues of getting help for programming than reddit. i'm saying that as someone that not once has ever visited reddit for a programming bit of advice. every web search i have ever done for programming has been found elsewhere. clearly, i am not everyone, but for those that think this is doom, there is greener grass in other pastures.

Re: r/ProgrammerHumor will be shutting down to protest Reddit's API changes

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Post by km3r »

jonathankoren wrote: post #23
DiabloD3 wrote: post #17

HN might as well just run the headline that Reddit is shutting down permanently. All the major subs are either temporarily or permanently shutting down in protest. Do we have a federated Mastodon-esque system to replace Reddit yet? Its the only way to ensure the community survives at this point; Reddit leadership has already proven they only wish to harm both shareholders and the community at large under the guise of…

https://join-lemmy.org

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Re: r/ProgrammerHumor will be shutting down to protest Reddit's API changes

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Post by deeviant »

tamrix wrote: post #20

This will make no difference at all. RIF, Apollo and narwhale apps should all team up and create (or partner up) with a reddit clone. All the founders of these apps just seem oblivious to this. Or maybe there's a dead tight contract they signed or something but I'd do it anyway.

https://tildes.net/

Re: r/ProgrammerHumor will be shutting down to protest Reddit's API changes

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Post by codetrotter »

tamrix wrote: post #20

This will make no difference at all. RIF, Apollo and narwhale apps should all team up and create (or partner up) with a reddit clone. All the founders of these apps just seem oblivious to this. Or maybe there's a dead tight contract they signed or something but I'd do it anyway.

> All the founders of these apps just seem oblivious to this.

Not oblivious. Read the post by Apollo developer at https://www.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/144f6xm/apollo_w...

Relevant excerpt:

> Will you build a competitor? Move to one of the existing alternatives?

> I've received so many messages of kind people offering to work with me to build a competitor to Reddit, and while I'm very flattered, that's not something I'm interested in doing. I'm a product guy, I like building fun apps for people to use, and I'm just not personally interested in something more managerial.

> These last several months have also been incredibly exhausting and mentally draining, I don't have it in me to engage in something so enormous.

Re: r/ProgrammerHumor will be shutting down to protest Reddit's API changes

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Post by willis936 »

hifromLA wrote: post #6
yakshaving_jgt wrote: post #4

It’d be nice if the Haskell subreddit found a new home. I don’t know why Reddit is so generally toxic, but it is.

You’d be hard pressed to find social media that doesn’t trend towards toxicity, but Reddit in particular seems to have a culture of users that want to feel superior at any cost. They’re always looking to put down others and they’re often rewarded for doing so.

It's the public point system. HN identified this accurately and early.

Re: r/ProgrammerHumor will be shutting down to protest Reddit's API changes

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Post by SkyPuncher »

sb8244 wrote: post #26
tamrix wrote: post #20

This will make no difference at all. RIF, Apollo and narwhale apps should all team up and create (or partner up) with a reddit clone. All the founders of these apps just seem oblivious to this. Or maybe there's a dead tight contract they signed or something but I'd do it anyway.

The Apollo founder addresses this directly by saying it's just not an interest of his and that it would be a very large undertaking that he isn't wanting to do atm

It’s also incredibly risky. You need a tipping point of people on the platform.

Re: r/ProgrammerHumor will be shutting down to protest Reddit's API changes

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Post by ipaddr »

diego_moita wrote: post #7

I wish I had a lobste.rs membership now.

Why, it's closed to new members so no one comments. It's not a place to replace reddit. You are better off going to slashdot.. similiar level of conversation as reddit and many more comments and similiar number of daily stories compared to lobste.rs
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