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Re: Ask HN: What was the outcome of Reddit blackout?

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Post by dymk »

x86x87 wrote: post #409
brewdad wrote: post #263

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Your life as you know it would disappear if electricity stopped flowing tomorrow. Facebook is no longer the trendsetter but it still influences the daily lives of millions of people and will probably, once again, have a major impact on who the United States next president is. Facebook is highly relevant.

Would your life as you know it disappear if Facebook disappeared tomorrow? Facebook is a cancer to our society. Luckily it looks like most people moved on an now it's a ghost town.

You're confusing sufficient with necessary. "Your life as you know it will disappear" is an absurd necessary bar to determine if something is relevant or not.

> Luckily it looks like most people moved on an now it's a ghost town.

Ah, you're just unaware of Facebook's DAU/MAU trends. They're not hard to find.

Re: Ask HN: What was the outcome of Reddit blackout?

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Post by Obscurity4340 »

dragontamer wrote: post #417
Obscurity4340 wrote: post #414

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Do you think Lemmy be re-established or forked in a similar sense in which Lemmy itself is a "fork" of Reddit, if that makes sense?

I mean, Kbin.social is right there? Lol. Lemmy isn't a "fork" of Reddit, as much as it was just a Fediverse thing that existed and happened to become popular in-and-around the Reddit blackout. The Fediverse-model is good. Mastodon is good, but a poor-fit for people looking for things like Reddit. I think what Lemmy is, and what the Lemmy-users want Lemmy to become, remain an open-question. Some of these problems also…

Which do you feel is the most viable long-term and with regard to the political aspects of various platforms' creators or whatever that seems to be being implied is "baked in"?

Re: Ask HN: What was the outcome of Reddit blackout?

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Post by screye »

wizzwizz4 wrote: post #232
screye wrote: post #112

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The exodus was worse than the numbers indicate. Platforms are heavily Pareto skewed.[1]. The top 5% of reddit users are the primary (posters, mods) and secondary (commenters) content creators who are responsible for 95% of the life on reddit. The protest was led by this top 5%, and I presume they're also the main group that atrophied. The scale of damage is therefore underreported in simple usage statistics. [1] I ju…

"Pareto skewness" appears in https://hal.science/hal-00700465 (doi:10.1109/asonam.2012.91) from 2012, though I'm not sure whether it has the same sense. Unfortunately, https://forum.earlyretirementextreme.com/viewtopic.php?t=319... from 2013 is a perfect match: > Etsy seems dominated by stores that sell nothing with a few that do rather well. It's severely Pareto skewed. This is a relatively rare use of language, so…

I appreciate your effort in thoroughly destroying my dreams, yet politely giving me a consolation price.

I'll take it !

Re: Ask HN: What was the outcome of Reddit blackout?

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Post by dragontamer »

Obscurity4340 wrote: post #422
dragontamer wrote: post #417

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I mean, Kbin.social is right there? Lol. Lemmy isn't a "fork" of Reddit, as much as it was just a Fediverse thing that existed and happened to become popular in-and-around the Reddit blackout. The Fediverse-model is good. Mastodon is good, but a poor-fit for people looking for things like Reddit. I think what Lemmy is, and what the Lemmy-users want Lemmy to become, remain an open-question. Some of these problems also…

Which do you feel is the most viable long-term and with regard to the political aspects of various platforms' creators or whatever that seems to be being implied is "baked in"?

Lemmy for now, though I'm keeping an ear out on politics (nerd politics or even regular politics) that could change my opinion.

Re: Ask HN: What was the outcome of Reddit blackout?

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Post by mschuster91 »

arp242 wrote: post #264
mschuster91 wrote: post #246

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For what it's worth: many of the NSFW subreddits are dead . Even r/gonewild, one of the OGs - either they've gotten closed due to being unmoderated or they've been overrun by onlyfxns spam, or they've been hit by some weird downranking like GW. Particularly the nsfw loss hits hard for those interested in niche communities. We've lost tumblr, never had any of the Meta (FB, Instagram) views, Reddit is holding on on thr…

> overrun by onlyfxns spam I suspect this is the bigger issue to be honest. I certainly stopped because of this. Not that I begrudge people having OF or advertising that, but please, for fuck's sake, stay on-topic, and don't spam the fuck out of things with content barely related to the sub's topic. I also really hate the shift in language to be more personal; e.g. "would you like to [..]" / "I would like YOU to [..]…

It works though. There's millions of horny, lonely suckers out there - if you're an OF creator, all you need to do is to catch a few good whales, just like with free-to-play games.

Particularly where "weird" fetishes are involved, the rates for custom content can be pretty exorbitant, but still a drop in the bucket for the clientele.

Re: Ask HN: What was the outcome of Reddit blackout?

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Post by Obscurity4340 »

dragontamer wrote: post #425
Obscurity4340 wrote: post #422

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Which do you feel is the most viable long-term and with regard to the political aspects of various platforms' creators or whatever that seems to be being implied is "baked in"?

Lemmy for now, though I'm keeping an ear out on politics (nerd politics or even regular politics) that could change my opinion.

Whats the best c/community to keep an ear to the ground, lile c/Lemmy or something?

Re: Ask HN: What was the outcome of Reddit blackout?

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Post by dragontamer »

Obscurity4340 wrote: post #427
dragontamer wrote: post #425

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Lemmy for now, though I'm keeping an ear out on politics (nerd politics or even regular politics) that could change my opinion.

Whats the best c/community to keep an ear to the ground, lile c/Lemmy or something?

Hmmm.

I think the Lemmy.world instance has very good administrators who have made good decisions thus far.

But as for "who to follow", that's a bit more ambiguous. Its not necessarily important to follow people you agree with... its sometimes more important to follow people you disagree with.

Lemmy.ml IIRC is the Lemmy developer's instance and is therefore important, even if their posting styles do not match what I like to see. I also consider Beehaw.org important, they rub me as snowflakey but I think I respect what they're trying to do (even if I don't necessarily agree with it). sh.itjust.works errs on the other side politically.

Re: Ask HN: What was the outcome of Reddit blackout?

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Post by Obscurity4340 »

dragontamer wrote: post #428
Obscurity4340 wrote: post #427

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Whats the best c/community to keep an ear to the ground, lile c/Lemmy or something?

Hmmm. I think the Lemmy.world instance has very good administrators who have made good decisions thus far. But as for "who to follow", that's a bit more ambiguous. Its not necessarily important to follow people you agree with... its sometimes more important to follow people you disagree with. Lemmy.ml IIRC is the Lemmy developer's instance and is therefore important, even if their posting styles do not match what I l…

I looked up lemmy.ml but it doesnt show, is it defederated?

Re: Ask HN: What was the outcome of Reddit blackout?

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Post by shaftway »

Pathogen-David wrote: post #330
dv35z wrote: post #156

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Care to share strong recommendations? Interested in maker spaces, agile, entrepreneurship & prototyping.

Wanted to echo the suggestions of ThisOldTony, BenEater, and bigclivedotcom. ZackFreedman is another good marker, although he can be a bit goofy. If you like mechanical things in general, both SouthMainAuto and HVACRVIDEOS are fantastic.

If you like ThisOldTony, give InheritanceMachining a shot. Similar explanations of machining, clean shots, regular posts (every 2 weeks), and you can often see him using previous builds when making the next thing.
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