The Reddit blackout will continue • Hacker News Board

Re: The Reddit blackout will continue

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Post by seydor » Thu, Jun 15, 2023, 5:27 PM UTC

foodjinn wrote: post #432

yanderekko wrote: post #239

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Reddit has replaced mods before, they'll do it again. If they can't do it for hundreds of subs at once, that's fine - they'll start with the largest ones and go from there. Once it becomes clear that top mods will be removed if the subs don't reopen, the protest will largely crumble, if it doesn't do so before this becomes necessary.

The power mods that are pushing the blackout run something like 80% of the entire site. I honestly don't see how they allowed this to happen in the first place.

It will be a good thing that they are removed then.

Hardly irreplaceable

Re: The Reddit blackout will continue

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Post by garfieldandthe » Fri, Jun 16, 2023, 6:57 AM UTC

riffraff wrote: post #36

garfieldandthe wrote: post #29

Honest question since I don't really know how reddit works: Why can't reddit just forcefully re-open the subs that have been taken private? Mods are using powers given to them by the platform and I don't get why they are not being stripped of (some of) those powers.

They can, they just don't think it'll be necessary.

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Re: The Reddit blackout will continue

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Post by riffraff » Fri, Jun 16, 2023, 8:18 AM UTC

garfieldandthe wrote: post #562

riffraff wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They can, they just don't think it'll be necessary.

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you are confusing an assertion on the status quo with a prediction about the future.

I also have a prediction somewhere else in the thread tho, so I can still be wrong :)

Re: The Reddit blackout will continue

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Post by brigandish » Mon, Jun 19, 2023, 1:06 AM UTC

fsflover wrote: post #557

brigandish wrote: post #538

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The confusing sign up seems to be a huge friction there.

I don't see anything confusing. Choose any instance and it will federate with others. For the minimal friction, choose the mainstream one, mastodon.social.

I'm glad that it works for you. The experience shared by many others, however, and that includes many commenters on HN, is different and would suggest that it is, indeed, confusing.

Re: The Reddit blackout will continue

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Post by bredren » Tue, Jun 20, 2023, 8:05 PM UTC

esquivalience wrote: post #145

mattmanser wrote: post #127

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Enough with the ChatGPT already. If you didn't write it, don't post it.

I thought the approach was interesting. It's being used here as an empathy engine: what might (other people) say?

Thanks.

Most everyone seems to have missed the point, of the copy paste.

My goal was to show how trivial it would have been for the CEO to have typed that into chat gpt and avoided the injury of unforced errors. Sort of a modern “let me google that for you.”

I had this written out for the comment but at the time couldn’t make my explanation add more to the simple provision of “what you get when you try this using present tech” and a simple prompt and response.

Another way to look at it is that LLM queries and their responses serve almost like ultra niche links to the docs except their responses vary and may even be transient.

Providing a simple one could be read like RTFM.