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Re: Reddark: Website to watch subreddits going dark

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Post by flangola7 »

zirgs wrote: post #360
flangola7 wrote: post #338

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't believe it at all. My unreliable narrator radar is blowing up.

GTA games have been making fun of pretty much everyone. But there's this one group that you're not allowed to tell jokes about. I'm old enough to remember how gamers laughed at people like Jack Thompson who wanted to censor and ban video games. But now people like him are moderating gaming subreddits and saying that censorship is good actually.

If it's the group I think you're talking about, you forgot your triple parentheses.

I have no idea who Jack Thompson is. Gamers are disproportionately shithead teenagers whose parents neglected to teach them that the n and t words are not the peak of comedy, so it sounds like Thompson is much needed presence.

Re: Reddark: Website to watch subreddits going dark

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Post by dvngnt_ »

Izkata wrote: post #337
dimmke wrote: post #231

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There are already reports of some large subreddits shutting down permanently, such as programming humor. The idea that this action can’t possibly hurt Reddit I keep seeing is amazing to me. It absolutely will hurt Reddit. Even if it’s not an existential blow. Reddit took a long time to get to where it is. Simply saying it can absorb all this like it’s nothing is myopic. And FWIW, I’m glad most people aren’t as cynica…

> There are already reports of some large subreddits shutting down permanently, such as programming humor. Great example, that one already has a possible replacement at programminghumour.

less a replacement and more an alternative made years ago whose last post is 4 years ago and is currently restricted

and the pinned post is saying they need moderators so back to square one. creating a new one isn't a problem but scaling users and finding people to run it well is

Re: Reddark: Website to watch subreddits going dark

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Post by Engineering-MD »

LTom wrote: post #260
Engineering-MD wrote: post #91

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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 they should be able to govern their instance as they wish, but it's odd that they don't understand that putting (for example) criticism of the Chinese communist party under a general anti-racism rule — without explicitly mentioning this — is rather confusing. It's certainly not what the average new user would understand as racism. This specific ideological slant is also not clear from its description on the i…

Yes you’ve hit the nail on the head. It’s made out to be relatively censorship light, but in reality it isn’t. Things just need to be clear and up front so users know whether they want to use that instance.

Re: Reddark: Website to watch subreddits going dark

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Post by sphars »

breakingcups wrote: post #349
dm319 wrote: post #239

It's a shame because of all the social media platforms, reddit is one of the best. There isn't so much grandstanding (I couldn't tell you a single username on reddit), and the ability to rapidly create special-interest subreddits means that discussion revolves around the topic, on the whole. I left facebook because it became a place where people I knew spent their time curating a false virtual identity of themselves…

I could tell you only one, poem_for_your_sprog.

u/Shitty_Watercolour was one of my faves

Re: Reddark: Website to watch subreddits going dark

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Post by dang »

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.

Reddit is 100 times as big as HN. I think (well, it's a pet theory at least) that internet forum dynamics change at each order of magnitude. If so, then HN can't be Reddit no matter what features we build.

Re: Reddark: Website to watch subreddits going dark

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Post by skinnymuch »

stavros wrote: post #328
skinnymuch wrote: post #313

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HN is as much of a hivemind as reddit.

It really isn't. I have a lot of contrarian opinions, and HN doesn't dismiss them as quickly, and there are more people that will engage in reasoned debate with them.

HN is a western status quo community. There isn’t much intersectionalism or dissenting ideas. I do see people say what you’re saying, but without giving any guidelines or examples of contrarian opinions that do not get dismissed.

From my perspective, the HN you’re describing is equivalent to tech, IT, startup, VC sort of subreddits. Obviously HN has broad news too but the Overton window and acceptable dialogue of HN is limited to how those sorts of subreddits are.

Re: Reddark: Website to watch subreddits going dark

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Post by PUSH_AX »

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…

They are the boss..

Re: Reddark: Website to watch subreddits going dark

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Post by stavros »

skinnymuch wrote: post #368
stavros wrote: post #328

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It really isn't. I have a lot of contrarian opinions, and HN doesn't dismiss them as quickly, and there are more people that will engage in reasoned debate with them.

HN is a western status quo community. There isn’t much intersectionalism or dissenting ideas. I do see people say what you’re saying, but without giving any guidelines or examples of contrarian opinions that do not get dismissed. From my perspective, the HN you’re describing is equivalent to tech, IT, startup, VC sort of subreddits. Obviously HN has broad news too but the Overton window and acceptable dialogue of HN…

Sure, but it's better than reddit.
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