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HN is also really slow, this could be a wider-spread backend issue like when that one CDN took down half of the internet with it.
Well they're definitely making it easier for me to avoid Reddit going forward. I really do not like using the mobile reddit app and the whole 3rd party api debacle has me looking at alternative communities and I've found a couple of good stand-ins for the two most frequented ones for me on Reddit. I can probably replace the video game related ones with some RSS feeds for some popular gaming news sites. No big deal th…
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Pointless speculation. Reddit has constant outages of this exact nature almost weekly. There's nothing special about this one.
Reddit definitely doesn’t have outages like this almost weekly. Maybe 10+ years ago, but it’s rare now.
The official Reddit Status Twitter account proves that it happens very, very regularly: https://twitter.com/redditstatus
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A meme pointing out that u/spez was a mod of r/jailbait in 2008 was the top post on r/all a few hours ago
It's worth noting that a very old user (/u/andrewsmith1986 IIRC) responded that at that time it was possible to add arbitrary users as mods without needing interaction/feedback/etc. from the user in question. If that was the case, then any user being a mod on any particular sub at that time doesn't really mean much. Obviously I can't reference the comment in question right now, but I'll try to remember to circle back…
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Parent commenter shouldn't have said secretly. That was something he openly admitted to doing. https://www.theverge.com/2016/11/23/13739026/reddit-ceo-stev...
I believe the issue the commenter above was taking was that just because someone commits, for lack of a better term, comment fraud, we shouldn't jump to suggesting he's also a paedophile.
100% okay with the other protests but you don't DDoS websites
Not to mention it's illegal in many countries.
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Where else do you think the wave of reddit users will crash? Slashdot? Some federated assemblage like Mastodon or Lemmy? An indie clone trying to be to reddit what reddit was to digg? I'm guessing all of the above.
The "federated" alternatives are such crap. It's so user-unfriendly and confusing, there is no way a normal person would be able to enjoy browsing crap like lemmy/kbin.
If the collapse of sites like reddit and twitter are what is needed for a return to smaller user-operated and user-owned sites to flourish, then so be it. I won't miss the memes.
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That's literally why I'm here right now. I usually browse Reddit with my morning coffee, this has been a pleasant alternative
It seems pleasant at first, then you realize that 90% of comments on every post are cynical negativity and I'm not entirely sure if spending much time around here is a good thing because it'm starting to absorb it.
It's also not exclusively negative and cynical, of course, and there are some great insights to be found here. I think you're being unfair with 90%. Maybe more like 70%?
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That's literally why I'm here right now. I usually browse Reddit with my morning coffee, this has been a pleasant alternative
I deleted Apollo and the official Reddit app (which I used to post posts) and I'm done. I had been a user for ~12 years and had 150K+ comment karma. They fucked up and now I'll spend more time on here and /., is my guess. Unless there are other strong dork communities I should be looking into. Edit: Ask HN thread showed up on my last question: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36293789