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"Do we have a federated Mastodon-esque system to replace Reddit yet?" Yes. It's called Lemmy. https://join-lemmy.org Just found out about it today.
> Popular > 357 users / month
You can change that.
r/ProgrammerHumor will be shutting down to protest Reddit's API changes
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#262I’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.
Ha are you joking? This site is exactly the place I expect to see that kind of sentiment. It precisely matches HN’s reputation; it’s been a cliche since Dropbox launched.
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#263I 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.
Early this year, I added a blocklist for Reddit on my PC and deleted the app. I did it upon the realization that for me: 1. It was a time waste. It was entertaining, but more often than not, it wasn't useful or helpful at all. Classic short-term gratification. 2. Various issues with how it was run started to frustrate me. Advertising appearing as genuine posts, poor moderation / mod abuse. Also seemed to be a conflic…
I've blocked twitter and reddit for almost a year now. My mental health and work quality has improved dramatically. The only thing I miss is sports and local news, I wish their was a website that was social media for just those 2 things.
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#264Earlier quoted context omitted.
Early this year, I added a blocklist for Reddit on my PC and deleted the app. I did it upon the realization that for me: 1. It was a time waste. It was entertaining, but more often than not, it wasn't useful or helpful at all. Classic short-term gratification. 2. Various issues with how it was run started to frustrate me. Advertising appearing as genuine posts, poor moderation / mod abuse. Also seemed to be a conflic…
What’s the best way to block it on mobile?
Not OP but I just straight up deleted the play store and internet apps on my android phone using https://adbappcontrol.com/en/. That way I can't download it or just mindlessly browse to it when I'm bored. I have had this setup for a year now and not had any issues needing info or apps when I am away from my computer.
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I agree that Twitter is far from dead but you’re choosing a bad example. > The main Twitter video view metric is triggered when a user watches a video for at least 2 seconds and sees at least 50% of the video player in-view. So anyone that had the (auto playing) video in view for two seconds as they scrolled through their feed. Multiplied by the number of times it’s in their feed. It’s a pretty meaningless number.
If you think that’s bad, wait until you hear how they measure broadcast and cable television viewership.
How
Re: r/ProgrammerHumor will be shutting down to protest Reddit's API changes
#266A hard problem to solve. But if there was ever and opportunity for twitter to use its resources to create a competing platform it would be right now. They could create “twitter groups” and basically mimic the functionality of Reddit. They could even start it as a separate service and slowly merge them (to avoid any negative preconception of the twitter as a brand).
What’s so hard to solve!? Forums still and can be easily built, it existed years before reddit or social media, in fact, I personally think it’s better to have separate sites specialized in each niche than one giant platform trying to monopolize that, and proceed to call itself “front page of the internet” or whatever it’s called.
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Why does everyone forget Discourse? It's quietly enabling all of the best topic/product/niche-specific commmunities out there. https://discourse.mcneel.com as an example is a thriving treasure trove for CAD/Nurbs/product modelers/architects/etc.
I'm trying to forget it. Honestly Discourse is truly awful. Navigation is terrible, finding stuff is terrible, the UX in general is just so bad compared to what it tries to replace (BB forums).
Agreed. It’s awful. It tried to innovate too much that it resulted in a not so easy to use app.
Glad most forums use xenforo.
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This move is totally on brand for r/ProgrammerHumor, I don't see the community having much qualms about how the decision was taken. To answer your question, the move is of course discussed in the sub, and yes the reaction seems heavily positive.
> yes the reaction seems heavily positive. toxic vocal minority often drives narrative. That's why anonymous polls are important.
> toxic vocal minority
hmm...It wouldn't be controversial to say that r/ProgrammingHumor is heavily centered on this concept. And I mean that as a participant in it for I don't know how long.
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> 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.
Reddit can pay mods, just like every other social network does. Not rocket science, and if they did it just for the top ones, wouldn't cost that much.
Reddit can largely automate moderation. It's not hard, but... there are a lot of not hard things that Reddit screws up.
If this was even 1 year ago, things would be different. But it's not.
(I moderate a major subreddit)
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I quit Reddit half a year ago after 15 years of daily usage. 11/10, would quit again.
Did you go to extensive lengths to block yourself from easily getting there or just will power?
Not the person you're replying to, but I too left Reddit after being a heavy user for about 7 years.
I just stopped using it. I think that calling it will power sounds too dramatic.