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Re: Reddit Strike Has Started

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Post by scarface_74 »

foobarbecue wrote: post #209
GolfPopper wrote: post #167

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I think there's a fundamental conflict, in that these network effect businesses are terrible as for-profit businesses. They're of great value to those who use them, and indirectly to society as a whole. Yet there's no good way to monetize them (nor does there need to be monetization), and trying to do so damages the functionality of the network. Both Twitter and Reddit would likely be better off (from the POV of the…

Exactly. I'm headed back to wikipedia, where I found community as a teenager. I think you can draw a direct line from wikimedia's nonprofit status to 22 years of greatness and steady improvement.

The last year I could find for their largest donors from a quick Google search was 2018. Three of the big 5 tech companies are in the top 10 of largest donors. Do you think they are going to donate to Reddit?

Re: Reddit Strike Has Started

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Post by aceazzameen »

wpietri wrote: post #11

Great! There's a picket line I won't be crossing. Not just for those subs, of course, but for all of Reddit. The reason Reddit is valuable is not the few execs making these (IMHO terrible) decisions. It's the thousands of mods and the millions of people creating and organizing the content that I go there to read. Until those people are happy with things, I'm not going back.

Same here. I just blacklisted Reddit on my pihole. Just in case I forget and accidentally visit it.

Re: Reddit Strike Has Started

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Post by mynameisvlad »

memefrog wrote: post #679
mynameisvlad wrote: post #216

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Do you mean “Legacy chat” or “Chat”? Apparently the chat feature released in 2020 that nobody used is now “legacy” and was replaced by a new tab which people will continue to not use. Why they didn’t migrate old chats over when deprecating is beyond me. No wonder they’re burning through money.

So there are now three ways of contacting someone? Private messages (have been around forever), legacy chat and chat?

Yes. It’s bonkers.

New chat is only available on the new site and the latest mobile apps, so it’s also likely a way to funnel people towards those. IIRC legacy chat was also available on old reddit and the older versions of the apps, but never the 3rd party ones, which only had PMs.

Re: Reddit Strike Has Started

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Post by scarface_74 »

nomdep wrote: post #546
wpietri wrote: post #366

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Traffic is down modestly, revenue is down dramatically, outages are up, bugs are up, abuse is up, many users have departed, and the value of the company has fallen by something between half and two thirds. One of its core assets, the blue checkmark for verified notable accounts, has been permanently destroyed. I no longer use it, but word from my friends who still do is that is has become grimmer, less fun. Musk has…

> I'd suggest Casey Newton's articles on it That explains why the rest of your comment doesn’t make sense to me. IMHO Casey Newton is a vulture journalist. He specializes in exaggerate and twist every minor problem he can find in tech companies.

Is there really any serious argument about Twitter revenue being down and major ad buyers leaving?

Re: Reddit Strike Has Started

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Post by skinnymuch »

762236 wrote: post #680
jcims wrote: post #34

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Reddit is basically successful despite itself. It's wild.

I stopped visiting reddit after too many mods censored me and others that don't conform to the left's ideology. Twitter is where I get content now. And I'm a liberal.

I doubt the veracity of your story. As a liberal you’re complaining about how one of the most liberal capitalist sites has too much left ideology. What is left ideology to you?

Re: Reddit Strike Has Started

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Post by skinnymuch »

uw_rob wrote: post #421
HKH2 wrote: post #362

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Reddit is not going to change. It seems quite a few people don't mind being abused a bit to get the convenience they want. Nothing's going to happen.

I am not so sure that I agree here. What's interesting about reddit is that it is one site with very different UIs. The official reddit app has a focus on video/images and looks to be in competition with TikTok. old.reddit.com and Apollo are very much text centric apps. From my understand, reddit has a traffic breakdown of 50/50 on the text centric vs. visual centric UIs. With the UIs like Apollo being killed, and ol…

Is desktop new Reddit counting as text centric? From what others have said, 3rd party apps and old reddit have relatively low usage.

Re: Reddit Strike Has Started

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Post by scarface_74 »

tomcam wrote: post #674
asveikau wrote: post #541

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I don't know if this is true, but I heard that recently, searching Twitter for "cats" led you to videos of cats being mutilated. The story continued that Elon had fired the entire team devoted to preventing such outcomes. https://www.businessinsider.com/twitter-removes-autocomplete... Somehow hearing this story made me picture my daughter, 10, searching for cat videos.

Unfortunately, team size doesn’t mean anything directly. Don’t forget what happened when one searched for “black girls“ on google in 2009: https://time.com/5209144/google-search-engine-algorithm-bias...

And even though it’s improved. This is still an example of how Google has gone to shit over the years. Why can’t I just have “10 blue links” instead of pictures, videos, etc?

Re: Reddit Strike Has Started

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Post by asveikau »

tomcam wrote: post #674
asveikau wrote: post #541

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I don't know if this is true, but I heard that recently, searching Twitter for "cats" led you to videos of cats being mutilated. The story continued that Elon had fired the entire team devoted to preventing such outcomes. https://www.businessinsider.com/twitter-removes-autocomplete... Somehow hearing this story made me picture my daughter, 10, searching for cat videos.

Unfortunately, team size doesn’t mean anything directly. Don’t forget what happened when one searched for “black girls“ on google in 2009: https://time.com/5209144/google-search-engine-algorithm-bias...

Anyone who knows mythical man month knows team size isn't everything. But the team for this task should probably not be 0-1 people.
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