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Re: Reddit.com appears to be having an outage

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Post by rodgerd »

aw1621107 wrote: post #172
skhr0680 wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

He was also part of the team that gave the owner of the sub awards. It's not really credible to claim that spez wasn't somehow very enthusiastic about it.

Re: Reddit.com appears to be having an outage

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Post by rovr138 »

I wonder how they handle private subs.

If it’s certain users, they can’t simply cache the private page.

With everyone checking, this would add a lot of overhead. With apps like reddark, and other bots running this would create a lot of load.

There’s also an archive team project running so that’s a LOT of nodes hitting the site.

Re: Reddit.com appears to be having an outage

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Post by takeda »

EamonnMR wrote: post #608
takeda wrote: post #293

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There's also tildes.net (like early Reddit set up as non profit, invite only, but not hard to get an invite) and also open source distributed https://join-lemmy.org/

When you say "not hard to get an invite" what do you mean?

There's an e-mail on the website to request an invite (it's in contacts). This is what I did and got invite next day.

They also regularly open the invite threads here: https://old.reddit.com/r/tildes/

Also people who have been there for a while (not me) can invite their friends.

Re: Reddit.com appears to be having an outage

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Post by graeme »

hgsgm wrote: post #55
graeme wrote: post #28

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Over 90% of subreddits are currently dark. Impossible they had an excess of traffic

The lack of subreddits could be driving users to the same remaining part of the site, interfering with load balancing

You're right. I took an overly naive view of how a complex system would respond to such an unusual event.

Re: Reddit.com appears to be having an outage

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Post by manicdee »

djcannabiz wrote: post #541
AnonCoward42 wrote: post #511

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[flagged]

Would you mind explaining what #Stolzmonat means or what is behind it? I see that it is german for pride month. Is it meant to be ironic or something like that?

It's a counter-protest by white male supremacists ("neo-nazis"/Proud Boys) who believe that diversity and equality diminish them. It's a parody of Pride Month.

Re: Reddit.com appears to be having an outage

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Post by AnonCoward42 »

strato-cumulus wrote: post #610
AnonCoward42 wrote: post #600

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[flagged]

Read the twitter bio of that movement's page and tell me your definition of "everyone" here. If you don't support Stolzmonat's agenda, then you are probably not welcome - pretty much the same as with Pride. What's the difference then?

[flagged]

Re: Reddit.com appears to be having an outage

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Post by manicdee »

wwtrv wrote: post #400
scubbo wrote: post #336

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I mean, define "endorsement". Permitting something to exist when you have the power to do otherwise is a mild form of endorsement. A commitment to free speech is, to an extent, an endorsement of all the speech that results.

> Permitting something to exist when you have the power to do otherwise That's an exceptionally broad definition and would sound pretty scary with no context.

The context is discussion of social media platforms where the platform already owns all the content and has the tools to decide what gets published and what doesn't.

Re: Reddit.com appears to be having an outage

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Post by pseudalopex »

hattmall wrote: post #549
pseudalopex wrote: post #496

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Lawyers and courts say child pornography because laws are not restricted to sexual abuse material. Drawn child pornography is illegal in many places for example.

How do they determine the age of a person depicted in a drawing?

Appearing under a certain age is enough.

Re: Reddit.com appears to be having an outage

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Post by accrual »

tsunamifury wrote: post #84

Reddit being gone for a while actually makes me feel like the world is a better place. Somehow knowing even for a brief moment no one is there and I’m not missing out on anything makes me feel… more alive and excited to interact with the world. sounds bizarre I know… but I wish more social media shut down now.

It would be great if Reddit served static pages of old topics separately from the main site. Topics more than a few years old are unlikely to change in any substantial way, so why not have them conveniently available as a static page easily viewable and parsable for future purposes.

Re: Reddit.com appears to be having an outage

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Post by [deleted] »

tsunamifury wrote: post #84

Reddit being gone for a while actually makes me feel like the world is a better place. Somehow knowing even for a brief moment no one is there and I’m not missing out on anything makes me feel… more alive and excited to interact with the world. sounds bizarre I know… but I wish more social media shut down now.

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