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With all of the big subreddits going "dark" my feed is dominated by all those small community subreddits that I actively subscribed to.
Honestly it's somewhat refreshing to open reddit and nothing has changed on my frontpage.
Maybe I'm just a pessimist, but if Reddit doesn't backtrack what's the endgame here? I've seen multiple subs indicate they intend to fully shutdown if the API changes continue, but for the popular ones what's to stop Reddit from just appointing new mods and starting the sub back up?
Devils advocate of course, I love my third party apps.
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I think it would be pretty easy to make a clone, but everyone who tries seems to end up getting nerdsniped making something federated instead.
Only federation defends from what is now happening with Reddit. See Freenode and Libera Chat.
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Reddit has about as much technical complexity in its core product as Twitter—both can be trivially cloned. Alternatives exist. It’s the network effects that made Reddit valuable: the people, communities, 3rd-party clients, platform integrations, etc. Most of these things are fairly portable, so I think Reddit execs are mainly gambling in users not wanting to bother with finding a new place to gather. I have to wonder…
> both can be trivially cloned. Alternatives exist Trivially? No. As can be seen by lack of alternatives of comparable quality.
The quality differences are 100% due to the differences in the communities. They are social deficits, not technical ones.
I've seen some people claim that it's just the "powermods" pushing for these blackouts, but that's not my experience at all. Several medium-size subs I frequent (none of them moderated by powermods) made polls and the result was always the same: an overwhelming majority (like 90%+) of users were in favor of shutting down the subreddit.
I really hope Reddit can be saved. It'd be a shame to lose it like this.
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Honestly I'm taking this as an excuse to quit Reddit completely. It eats around 60 to 90 minutes of my days, which realistically means I spend 10% of the time I'm awake on Reddit. I've already eliminated all the other socials and that has been very good for me, my mental health, my productivity, now it's time to move from Reddit too. Besides, the user experience on the website has been nothing but degrading for years…
Same here. Time to go back to reading books and talking to people.
Bold strategy. How is it going so far?
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> both can be trivially cloned. Alternatives exist Trivially? No. As can be seen by lack of alternatives of comparable quality.
Why use an alternative when you can use the real thing? Reddit was open-source until 2017: https://github.com/reddit-archive/reddit I think that qualifies at trivial.
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Hacker News is a Reddit clone that PG wrote because subreddits didn’t exist yet and he wanted to write an application in Arc.
Hacker News is what I refer to as The last bastion of the "Old Internet". Like back when the internet was a thing that people actually had to put effort into participating in so the average quality of content and engagement was consistently high more often than it was low. Back when you actually had forums dedicated to single areas of interest, run by people who were interested in that thing "just coz". I feel like H…
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Reddit has about as much technical complexity in its core product as Twitter—both can be trivially cloned. Alternatives exist. It’s the network effects that made Reddit valuable: the people, communities, 3rd-party clients, platform integrations, etc. Most of these things are fairly portable, so I think Reddit execs are mainly gambling in users not wanting to bother with finding a new place to gather. I have to wonder…
> both can be trivially cloned. Alternatives exist Trivially? No. As can be seen by lack of alternatives of comparable quality.