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Re: Reddark: Website to watch subreddits going dark

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Post by miroljub »

Tainnor wrote: post #96
miroljub wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

I agree with you, and that's why I listed some missing things that would help it to be a Reddit replacement.

Regarding mobile clients, there are at least a few third party mobile clients on both Android and iPhone that work quite well.

Re: Reddark: Website to watch subreddits going dark

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Post by karmakurtisaani »

Engineering-MD wrote: post #91
OnlyEvenPrime2 wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

I think it's too early to complain about censorship. Moda are still probably adjusting to what is acceptable, and there are several instances where policies differ. Same as turning down whole of Reddit because one subreddit has strict moderation.

Regarding the business model, there isn't any. At best it will be run by donations if the costs mount top high. I'm curious to see where it will go, but at least there are no ads at least not yet.

Re: Reddark: Website to watch subreddits going dark

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Post by InCityDreams »

commitpizza wrote: post #49

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I'm a relatively new r/ user and I can't understand your, and many previous, comments that call reddit some variation of 'shit', and 'toxic'. I am thoroughly impressed. I have my interests, and have found so much information - far more than Google, and even ddg - it's now my goto search engine, along with algolia, and I kick myself everyday I wasn't on r/ several/ many years ago. Where's the shit and the toxicity?

Re: Reddark: Website to watch subreddits going dark

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Post by lozenge »

NicuCalcea wrote: post #100
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.

Facebook's API model used to be the app can see everything you can see. Resulting in fun apps like friendship graphs, interest similarity scores, photo collage generators. Basically, features from a Facebook Labs team that doesn't exist.

Then Cambridge Analytica scooped up all the profile data of all of your friends when you completed a fun Buzzfeed style quiz and that created enough outrage to change it.

Whether Cambridge Analytica was actually able to make any use of this data to "subvert democracy" is very debatable. If you look into it, it's just how they marketed themselves.

Re: Reddark: Website to watch subreddits going dark

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Post by [deleted] »

jacquesm wrote: post #61

48 hours will not even ding reddit. Do it for a month and it will count, assuming reddit doesn't simply re-enable the subreddits. But obviously the mods here are walking a fine line between pissing off their users and getting reddit to bend over. With camarades.com we had a week long outage because of a fire in EV1's DC which then caused the fire marshal to shut everything down for a week (I don't blame them, but tha…

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Re: Reddark: Website to watch subreddits going dark

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Post by pers0n »

gymbeaux wrote: post #24
deminature wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Getting rid of moderators turns reddit into 4chan. If you want that, fine, but there's already a website for unfiltered hate speech and spam.

It’s incredibly frustrating when you take the time to write something out- something that benefits others and does nothing for you, like sharing your experience or knowledge- only to have the comment removed for one bullshit reason or another. I have never written hate speech or anything racist or in that vein on Reddit, yet I’ve been censored and banned so many times by what I can only assume are children (or childr…

Many Reddit’s are run by angry folks, I’ve asked questions before only to be scolded and other times to crickets because it was not a funny picture/video or meme.

Any real forum I could find on the same topic always had nicer people and my questions got replies.

The problem is that forums cost money and time to host, update, prevent spam, etc.

Oh and I hate the Reddit auto-moderation, a post will never get posted because I was too new and then your dependent on the email to the Reddit moderators to move it out from an email they may never read.

Re: Reddark: Website to watch subreddits going dark

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Post by rvz »

commitpizza wrote: post #49

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Exactly. Reddit has always been a shit hole and it just shows that Reddit always was able to pull the rug under its own users. A 1 day protest is nothing but hilarious as if that would do anything to Reddit.

The right action at this point is to delete your accounts.

Re: Reddark: Website to watch subreddits going dark

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Post by chris_wot »

Parcle wrote: post #39
chris_wot wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

All badly moderated communities tend to turn to shit. Just look at Wikipedia.

What's wrong with Wikipedia?

Unrestrained bullying, increasingly smaller numbers of article editors and a cruel clique of editors. It’s basically in maintenance mode, it’s not increasing in quality or knowledge.

Re: Reddark: Website to watch subreddits going dark

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Post by Mindwipe »

jacquesm wrote: post #61

48 hours will not even ding reddit. Do it for a month and it will count, assuming reddit doesn't simply re-enable the subreddits. But obviously the mods here are walking a fine line between pissing off their users and getting reddit to bend over. With camarades.com we had a week long outage because of a fire in EV1's DC which then caused the fire marshal to shut everything down for a week (I don't blame them, but tha…

Reddit admin are bricking themselves to be resorting to telling moderators that they will only make better moderation tools if their subs don't participate, so they clearly don't agree 48 hours is an idle threat.

Re: Reddark: Website to watch subreddits going dark

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Post by Cthulhu_ »

qznc wrote: post #62
quaintdev wrote: post #54

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

https://join-lemmy.org/ Lemmy is still too obscure to be on the radar i guess.

It's on the radar, but it will probably never have the critical mass that reddit has; can its servers handle and afford millions of users and billions of requests a month?
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