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

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Post by wackget »

icameron wrote: post #3

I decided to use this as a good excuse to delete Reddit. I find myself going to it too often, and scrolling for too long, and afterwards I feel worse about the direction of humanity and down about the world. I’m not getting anything positive from it so for my own mental heath I’m deleting the app.

You've gotta remove the default subreddits which are largely dog shit. Seriously, whoever decided that trash like "r/prequelmemes" or even "r/formula1" should qualify to appear on reddit's home page needs to get a new job.

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

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Post by Firmwarrior »

thx-2718 wrote: post #140
sebzim4500 wrote: post #119

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The google trends graph is the worst I've ever seen https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=digg&hl=... EDIT: Note that it's a common slang word in Norwegian, hence why it still appears as a search term there

Did you try going there? Inexplicably it's worse than I could have imagined. I found one thread with 9 comments. In the popular section. And it devolved into someone calling another an 'asshole'.

OK, well, maybe those were some really bland houses

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

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Post by Macha »

liotier wrote: post #134
taspeotis wrote: post #45

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Users in a browser can see ads; the cost is subsidised.

Users in a browser, with no ad blocking - the five remaining ones...

And that's why they're as much against people using their own mobile web experience as they are third party apps.

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

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Post by Macha »

codetrotter wrote: post #52
PestoDiRucola wrote: post #16

We get it, a lot of subreddits are going on strike to protest the API changes. I just wish this forum does not become the place-to-be to discuss how much reddit sucks. There's been at least 3-4 stories about the reddit API changes on the frontpage of hackernews for the past week at least.

Fun fact: Reddit was backed by YC back in the day when they launched. Also, people are probably interested to see if Reddit will collapse or not. And to find out where people will go instead.

Further, Reddit was arguably the progenitor of HN. My understanding is that HN was basically PG's project when Reddit ported from Lisp to Python to prove you could run that type of site in Lisp still (and also as the proto-community on reddit moved away from tech and startups to more general interest).

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

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Post by DoreenMichele »

sebzim4500 wrote: post #130
chongli wrote: post #112

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You must’ve been subscribed to some news/current events related subreddits. My subscriptions are all hobbies and specific games that I’m interested in. Reddit is my escape from all the stuff you mentioned. I use Apollo to browse and comment on my phone. I’m really upset about the API changes. I really want to see people come together with a solution to migrate away from Reddit. Aren’t there any angels out there who w…

>You must’ve been subscribed to some news/current events related subreddits. Not necessarily. If you really want to lose hope in humanity go to the advice subreddits.

How so?

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

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Post by diydsp »

mjr00 wrote: post #176
hn_throwaway_99 wrote: post #153

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> All the major subs are either temporarily or permanently shutting down in protest. But I'd just add there is a pretty major difference between "temporarily" and "permanently". Major kudos to r/ProgrammerHumor and other subs that are doing it right - saying they will be shutting down indefinitely unless Reddit changes their stance. Just saying you're only going to shut down for a couple days is essentially theater -…

> But I'd just add there is a pretty major difference between "temporarily" and "permanently". Major kudos to r/ProgrammerHumor and other subs that are doing it right - saying they will be shutting down indefinitely unless Reddit changes their stance. A permanent closure of a popular sub is 100% going to lead to Reddit declaring the sub abandoned, replacing the mod team, and reopening. Has happened many times before.…

> replacing the mod team,

That's like immigrant jobs: You can take them away but there aren't hoards of passionate volunteers chomping at the bit to replace them.

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

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Post by rkeene2 »

zxexz wrote: post #19
earthscienceman wrote: post #11

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I could help you there if you'd like.

Lobste.rs always seemed cool. I've been waiting for them to open up for years. But I guess the invite-only nature may be what makes it what it is?

I was a Lobste.rs user for a while, but their admins are very patronizing so I left. One day in 2020, I made several posts (see below) on a variety of topics and because they were all articles or software I had written they couldn't decide if I should be banned, so I left.

Writing Your First PAM Module [c] [unix] (rkeene) - https://lobste.rs/s/qbsk6y

hunter2: Smartcard-based password manager [security] [show] (rkeene) - https://lobste.rs/s/3rufnm

Build CC: Cross-compile build tool [programming] (rkeene) - https://lobste.rs/s/2g4hfh

Simple SAML Identity Provider Framework (IdP) [programming] [security] (rkeene) - https://lobste.rs/s/nrle0e

Roku Reddit [programming] [show] (rkeene) - https://lobste.rs/s/nbxufp

Chrome disables support for mandatory features of HTTPS [rant] [web] (rkeene) - https://lobste.rs/s/shqzk5

HashCache [programming] [show] (rkeene) - https://lobste.rs/s/hq2ckd

sse3-emu [c] [show] (rkeene) - https://lobste.rs/s/xekrci

Defense Enterprise Linux (2011) [linux] [pdf] (rkeene) - https://lobste.rs/s/x5wgwr

pipethread: It is what it does [pdf] [programming] (rkeene) - https://lobste.rs/s/yu5lfw

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

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Post by noirbot »

OkayPhysicist wrote: post #152
ipaddr wrote: post #40

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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

Frankly, I think relatively insular communities are better for the web as a whole. In particular "anybody can invite people, but you're responsible for your invite tree" is a pretty healthy way to foster a community. It ensures a basic level of decency, and a high level of trust. IMO, the option to deal with invite trees like the other site should be an option everywhere. Some basic moderation tools, like being able…

The issue with insular communities is they're insular though, and often by definition exclusionary. The nice part about something like reddit was if I picked up a new hobby, I could reliably find a community for it there. If I take up kayaking, it's unlikely that the insular music BBS I'm on has more than a handful of kayaking enthusiasts on it, and for just a general hobby, I'm not even sure where I'd start on trying to find an insular community for that hobby.

There's many interests I've ended up getting more involved in because I could easily join a subreddit that was about that without much effort, and then over the years, by osmosis, I learned and saw more of it while I was engaging with the other subreddits I was more active on. Smaller communities just don't offer that sort of convenient diversity of interests and experiences.

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

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Post by isocle »

bryancoxwell wrote: post #55

I’ll be honest, HN is the last place I’d expect to find people who underestimate the difficulty of creating a social network, but every single post about Reddit lately has had one or more comments about how the creators of Reddit clients should “just” make their own backend and take their users with them.

Yeah, I don't understand why everyone seems so content to settle on imaginary solutions. Even if this was something he possessed the knowledge to do, he's bound by the timeline Reddit has laid out, and there is no way that is feasible, even if he did have 100x the users that Apollo actually has.

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

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Post by yjftsjthsd-h »

hn_thrwn wrote: post #171
hn_throwaway_99 wrote: post #153

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> All the major subs are either temporarily or permanently shutting down in protest. But I'd just add there is a pretty major difference between "temporarily" and "permanently". Major kudos to r/ProgrammerHumor and other subs that are doing it right - saying they will be shutting down indefinitely unless Reddit changes their stance. Just saying you're only going to shut down for a couple days is essentially theater -…

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> This will be educational to them when they are all banned and replaced with chatbots.

If they are replaced with chatbots, then I'm sure that the result will be educational to somebody. Not necessarily with the conclusion you imply, though.

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