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Lascivious pictures of clothed children count as CSAM in many jurisdictions. Free speech is fine but did they not have lawyers until 2015?
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I mean it's also worth noting that spez was CEO of Reddit and subreddits like that were allowed to exist for many, many more years.
And it would in turn be worth noting that the creators of reddit had a philosophical and political commitment to free speech that drove their light-touch approach to moderation. It's not like the existence of that subreddit is evidence of an endorsement on their part.
They end up conforming or losing money. There’s no one reason for this. You try to run a website visible to the world, you’re gonna be subject to a world full of reasons.
It is likely related to the blackout due to the reddit CEO being dishonest about the upcoming API pricing changes. You can read more here: https://www.reddit.com/r/ModCoord/comments/1476fkn/reddit_bl... Er, you will be able to read more at that link whenever reddit comes back online :-/
No? Making some subs private doesn't have anything to do with the site blackout.
EDIT: Reddit themselves confirmed that the outage was related to subs going private.
> “A significant number of subreddits shifting to private caused some expected stability issues, and we’ve been working on resolving the anticipated issue,” said Reddit spokesperson Tim Rathschmidt.
https://techcrunch.com/2023/06/12/reddit-goes-down-just-as-a...
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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
What is /. ?
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One thing that could be happening is many clients/bots/crawlers pinging pages that gone private now and that is overwhelming servers.
Wouldn't that be easier on the server load? You're ust displaying the error page instead of actually grabbing the feed of the subreddit
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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
What is /. ?
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Or all the ppl missing Reddit are on HN to fill the need.
What's up guys!? That's me. Really enjoying my time on HN so far. It reminds of what Reddit used to be like.
I remember reading Joel Spolsky's blog when he promoted Reddit. I jumped over for look and stayed. Threads and discussion were heavily tech focused. The format was a nice departure from slashdot, and there was a lack of digital "turf" wars. (Subreddits came along years later.)
16(?) years on - Reddit has metastisized into something different. I still enjoy parts of it, but it's definitely not the same beast it was in the beginning.
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Eternal June for HN begins…
Nah, floods of new users have come before. The lack of images, politics, and drama, combined with the "boring" design drives the undesirables away, leaving behind people who like talking about tech and other interests.
The tech+(with some business) focused nature of the feed keeps folks off too.
No memes here.
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Could also make a guess that the blackout has changed how their normal traffic patterns operate, causing some issues with autoscaling/hot partitions.
Yeah, my assumption was that something in some layer of their application isn’t well optimized when asked to return posts from a subreddit that has “gone dark” in whatever fashions the mods chose to do that. For example, maybe it causes reads from the database take a lot longer than they normally would, locking up the database or causing the process the crash (again, that’s just pure speculation).