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Re: Reddark: Website to watch subreddits going dark

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Post by Engineering-MD »

OnlyEvenPrime2 wrote: post #65
quaintdev wrote: post #54

Too bad we don't have a viable replacement for reddit atm or this would have been end of Reddit

We have Lemmy. I already deleted my Reddit account and moved.

Main instance (lemmy.ml) has quite heavy political censorship though. It’s not obvious or visible, and including under anti racism rules. Criticising non western countries leads to calls of orientalist and bans [0].

Also without a business model they will struggle to maintain the servers required for even a tiny fraction of Reddit

[0]https://lemmy.ml/post/1167199

Re: Reddark: Website to watch subreddits going dark

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Post by dataengineer56 »

zarzavat wrote: post #64
dataengineer56 wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I own the DocuSign subreddit. You don't own it, you were just either the first person to create the subreddit or someone who has since becomes the longest-serving moderator on it. I'll never understand how camping on a subreddit gives anyone the right to say that they "own" it or gives them more power over everyone else indefinitely. It's a big flaw in Reddit, I think all subreddits should be put up for some kind o…

Because that’s how Reddit is designed, and that’s how forums worked before Reddit. If you don’t like the way a subreddit is run then you can make another one, and if you are sufficiently better then people will switch. Reddit isn’t stack exchange. It’s more like running an open source project. The problem is that there’s this hostile corporation that sometimes tries to kill their own product every few years overseein…

> If you don’t like the way a subreddit is run then you can make another one, and if you are sufficiently better then people will switch

That's much easier said than done - say you don't like the moderation or content of /r/gaming, how are you going to spread the word about your new subreddit? It won't have as good a name as /r/gaming, it's not a default sub so it's more difficult to find, and you might find that mentions of your subreddit make it onto a powermod blacklist, ensuring you can't even link to it from other subreddits.

How can Reddit have the concept of default subreddits yet allow them to be run by random, unvetted people? For me being default includes some kind of guarantee of quality and approval by Reddit, yet most of these default subreddits are going dark!

Re: Reddark: Website to watch subreddits going dark

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Post by gorbachev »

bmitc wrote: post #82
jeltz wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, I have personally seen companies inflicting hundreds of millions worth of damages to themselves of not billions as part of pre-IPO work. Extra hilarious and sad to watch when the IPO has to be aborted.

Why is it so predictable? I know investors don't care about anything other than returns, but what returns do you get when you tank companies in such diametrically opposed ways from how they've operated before?

There are different kinds of investors involved in an IPO process.

The investors that have pre-IPO stock and who are looking to sell as quickly as possible, gain from IPO pops, so it's in their best interest to maximize short-term profits. That group of investors include a lot of the existing investors, and in almost all cases the founders and C-suite of the company.

Re: Reddark: Website to watch subreddits going dark

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Post by that_guy_iain »

pmontra wrote: post #52
that_guy_iain wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Reddit isn’t profitable therefore technically it doesn’t profit from anything.

So by their logic they should close their company.

I assume this "their logic" is some made up "their logic" for a straw man argument.

Their logic is they should make other for-profit companies who make money using their APIs pay for using their APIs?

Re: Reddark: Website to watch subreddits going dark

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Post by Tainnor »

miroljub wrote: post #70
quaintdev wrote: post #54

Too bad we don't have a viable replacement for reddit atm or this would have been end of Reddit

You are writing this using the best Reddit replacement. If HN had a subforum feature and an ability to embed pictures or videos in posts, or some kind of markdown light syntax, Reddit usage would die for me.

reasons why HN doesn't work as a reddit replacement:

- It has no subforums

- Almost everyone here is in IT, other topics only get discussed when they are interesting to IT people. On reddit, you can talk to historians, mathematicians, language enthusiasts, fans of your favourite series, etc.

- HN usability on mobile is... yeah

- HN is text only, that's already difficult for programming, but would make talking about e.g. mathematics really annoying, and for people who want to share art, that's even more obviously not going to work

- also, I really wish you could block users

Re: Reddark: Website to watch subreddits going dark

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Post by jeltz »

prox wrote: post #50
gorbachev wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The pre-IPO process often involves all kinds of fun short-term profit maximizing activities.

Honest question, does this include artificial inflation of costs? I have seen figures that Reddit used to run with 20 people, and inflated to 2000 in 10 years. Old reddit is also superlight in bandwidth. New reddit is not.

In at least one real life example I have personal insight into: yes. They hired tons of devs to make the company look bigger and look like they were aiming for continued quick growth post IPO. Reality was that they did not have enough tasks for all people they had quickly hired.

Re: Reddark: Website to watch subreddits going dark

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Post by BoxOfRain »

quaintdev wrote: post #54

Too bad we don't have a viable replacement for reddit atm or this would have been end of Reddit

I've been tentatively looking at Lemmy, obviously nowhere near the activity of Reddit but it's not a ghost town either and the Fediverse aspect is a big plus in my book.

Re: Reddark: Website to watch subreddits going dark

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Post by NicuCalcea »

cubefox wrote: post #36

Imagine there was a free or quasi-free API for Facebook. Facebook would lose large amounts of money on content because they can no longer monetize it with ads.

There used to be a free API for Facebook. I can't remember the name of the app (maybe Seesmic?), but I used to have a combined Facebook and Twitter feed in a single Android app.
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