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Re: Reddit Strike Has Started

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Post by moneywoes »

Panzer04 wrote: post #868
Wowfunhappy wrote: post #436

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> the difference is that they are betting on the fact that right now there is no immediately obvious alternative, like Reddit was to Digg a decade ago. Discord. I know, I know—it's built for real-time chat, it's harder to search, etc etc... but a lot of subreddits already have associated Discord servers. I could see a lot of communities naturally migrating there. Maybe as a temporary stop-gap, maybe permanently. Youn…

Discord won't make it. I find reddit useful because for any particular query I want a mostly user-based answer for I can google term + reddit. Discord jsut doesn't have the same discourse because it's designed for quick back-and-forth chats, not more in-depth self-supporting commentary. It just doesn't fulfill the same purpose. IME, I ignore discords from most subreddits because they do basically nothing for me unles…

What about discord threads?

Re: Reddit Strike Has Started

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Post by moneywoes »

HeckFeck wrote: post #75
bstar77 wrote: post #21

Flashback to Digg.com... I hope the people currently in charge of Reddit know how that event played out... it was the single most significant stroke of luck a fledgling Reddit could have possibly hoped for.

The Reddit source is out there, mercifully sans all the redesign code. It would just be a matter of funding + will.

Where

Re: Reddit Strike Has Started

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Post by ric2b »

keyle wrote: post #764
JJMcJ wrote: post #480

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The joke definition of Web 2.0: You make the content, we make the money. Well, don't piss off the content makers, or the content consumers.

To be fair I think Reddit predates "web 2.0" by a big gap. Which is probably why they were successful; they did it before everyone else.

So no one remembers Digg anymore, and how Reddit initially grew because Digg was pissing off its own community.

Re: Reddit Strike Has Started

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Post by unclekev »

chx wrote: post #226
MostlyStable wrote: post #149

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Yeah, I do honestly think that that would be the only way this works. If the majority of mods were just like "yup, we'll shut it down and leave", forcing reddit to replace _large_ swaths of moderation, things could get ugly for them. As it is, as far as I have seen, very few subs are committing to being permanently closed, and Reddit will only boot mods from a _very_ small number of subs over a 2 day closure, so they…

That number is growing by the hour and we shall see what happens on the 14th. There's not much stopping the participating subs from continuing indefinitely. If it's not declared as infinite, it's even harder to justify replacing them. For example, /r/askhistorians is going private for 48h and reopens readonly indefinitely after. /r/pathofexile as far as I understand won't be going private but goes readonly once again…

> /r/askhistorians is going private for 48h and reopens readonly indefinitely after. /r/pathofexile as far as I understand won't be going private but goes readonly once again indefinitely.

Wow, that'll really show them who's boss! /s

Re: Reddit Strike Has Started

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Post by unclekev »

sva_ wrote: post #387

It seems that the site broke down and now redirects to a Twitch stream > Can I watch the website myself! > Afraid not, our site recently broke down due to the amount of requests, and for the time being we've resorted to livestreaming it. When traffic dies down we'll put it back up.

> It seems that the site broke down and now redirects to a Twitch stream

Probably had to shut the database instance down once they exceeded the AWS free tier limits and realised that internet infrastructure actually costs real money and doesn't run on magical free fairy dust like the protesters seem to think.

Re: Reddit Strike Has Started

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Post by unclekev »

gareve wrote: post #917

Great Visualization! My perception was that only 10% of the subs were going to go private. At the time of this comment, 87% of reddits are private

> My perception was that only 10% of the subs were going to go private

There's 3.5 million subs.

Less than 8000 are participating in the 'blackout'

That's 87% of ~8000, not the whole of Reddit.

Re: Reddit Strike Has Started

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Post by fhsm »

mikerg87 wrote: post #204

I just can’t imagine this is the Reddit that Aaron Swartz would have wanted

When this happened my thoughts also turned to Aaron. I had not thought about him in some time. It made me sad note that, to think of where we and of all we have done without and why that is so.

Context for those who missed it:

http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/rewritingreddit

https://www.wbur.org/news/2013/02/20/carmen-ortiz-investigat...

I think of Sci-hub and Alexandra are the continuation of Aarons fatal push:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandra_Elbakyan

Ongoing attention on the circumstances:

https://theintercept.com/2021/02/15/marty-walsh-aaron-swartz...

Re: Reddit Strike Has Started

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Post by albert_e »

SCUSKU wrote: post #70

Great! For any other compulsive Reddit addicts out there with uBlock Origin installed, you can block Reddit as follows: Click uBlock Origin extension -> click gears -> click "My Filters" tab -> paste this line ||reddit.com^$all

is there a way to achieve this on Android Chrome? that's my prime gateway

i found myself unconsciously opening reddit.com and starting to scroll and consume content mindlessly ... only to realize after a few seconds that it happened... and then closing the browser

I suspected i had a habit ...but only realizing now the autopilot effect of it

Re: Reddit Strike Has Started

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Post by ric2b »

lelanthran wrote: post #670
jupp0r wrote: post #73

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It's not Reddit's content, it's the community's. It's literally users wanting to access their own stuff in a different way. If Reddit thinks it's theirs, they will soon notice that nothing is left of their business when those communities have moved elsewhere. To even create this war against your own users is complete folly.

> If Reddit thinks it's theirs, they will soon notice that nothing is left of their business when those communities have moved elsewhere. Where are they gonna move to? I'm not being facetious, I'd really rather like to know - where on earth are all these moderators going to start up their new groups on? If there was a viable alternative they would've found it by now and there wouldn't be a strike, there'd be a desert…

There are multiple reddit clones, I think the biggest one is Lemmy.

Did you really think there was nothing else? Services like reddit are big because of their network effects, not because they have so special sauce that no one has been able to replicate.

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