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> I've already eliminated all the other socials and that has been very good for me You do understand that you are posting this to hacker news right?
Hacker News is a news aggregator.
It's really kind of crazy to see. I just checked some of my favorite subs and out of 22 subs I checked, 20 are currently private. 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 user…
but regardless, I removing myself from the traffic of the site..
by the 30th I plan on archiving all my historical comments, and deleting my accounts
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> Imagine if each subreddit was a separate forum with a separate account. You can have a separate forum, but you don't need a separate account. You just need need these different sites to talk with each other. This is how email, Usenet and now ActivityPub works. > People are lazy and want everything in the same place. It doesn't have to be the same place for everyone. For me (and my friends and family), the "place fo…
For a small group like a family or a couple of friends it's simply easier to use apps like Discord, WhatsApp or Signal. But if you need something bigger then you can't avoid the problems that I mentioned. My country's gamedev community had a phpbb forum that was created 2 decades ago. But now it's dead and everyone is using discord instead.
None of them are can be composed into an open web of links, and you are still at the mercy of large corporations.
> But now it's dead and everyone is using discord instead.
And RSS was a big thing until Twitter killed it. Your point?
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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…
> I've already eliminated all the other socials and that has been very good for me You do understand that you are posting this to hacker news right?
My HN usage is quite low and acceptable as I often find work-related content.
It's really kind of crazy to see. I just checked some of my favorite subs and out of 22 subs I checked, 20 are currently private. 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 user…
It's really kind of crazy to see. I just checked some of my favorite subs and out of 22 subs I checked, 20 are currently private. 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 user…
As I have expected r/ExperiencedDevs did not go dark. Devs just can't figure out things together.
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As I have expected r/ExperiencedDevs did not go dark. Devs just can't figure out things together.
r/ExperiencedDevs is such a weird place to me. It’s like the secondary school for r/CSCareerQuestions. It has builtin gatekeeping due to their goal of being for “experienced devs”. I’m also not surprised they aren’t participating.
https://www.reddit.com/r/ExperiencedDevs/comments/147ebxd/ex...
> It’s like the secondary school for r/CSCareerQuestions.
It started few months ago when sub suddenly become popular. A lot of... how to say it, trivial questions/topics.
It's really kind of crazy to see. I just checked some of my favorite subs and out of 22 subs I checked, 20 are currently private. 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 user…
As I have expected r/ExperiencedDevs did not go dark. Devs just can't figure out things together.