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they killed RiF. i stopped going there entirely on mobile which was 90% of my visits. i never look at reddit when im bored now. on desktop, if RES and old.reddit stop working. ill never go back
RiF still works but you need to patch the APK with your own api key. There's guides online.
What annoys me the most about Reddit is, that it's essentially just a rehash of Usenet with marginally more moderation features, up/down-voting and custom CSS for each group/subreddit. That's about it. If I were to attempt to implement a Reddit "clone", I'd merely spin up a couple of ISC InterNetNews NNTP servers and slap a web application in front of those. The only thing that Reddit did – on the interaction level –…
>I'd merely spin up a couple of ISC InterNetNews NNTP servers and slap a web application in front of those. If this was the only thing differentiating Reddit from anything other text reliant information service, why hasn't anybody come along and disrupted Reddit by doing something similar to this?
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If you say so. He single-handedly destroyed one of the best brands of the modern online era (tweet, Twitter, the bird logo) only to replace it with a brand identity that was stale 20 years ago and is commonly associated with porn. The site’s traffic continues to plummet and his investment is worth billions less since he unleashed his acumen.
He didn't buy Twitter to make money. He saw it as the propaganda tool that it had become, and bought it to rotate it 180 degrees and point it back in the opposite direction.
I used to think he was a great businessman until the Twitter thing removed his mask. It’s easy to achieve financial success when your father owns an Emerald mine. Then you strong-arm people out of their businesses (look up the businesses he actually started).
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If you say so. He single-handedly destroyed one of the best brands of the modern online era (tweet, Twitter, the bird logo) only to replace it with a brand identity that was stale 20 years ago and is commonly associated with porn. The site’s traffic continues to plummet and his investment is worth billions less since he unleashed his acumen.
Yet I still can’t go a day without being sent a Twitter link or seeing comments on HN. Twitter will be dead when people stop talking about it dying.
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Musk is successful despite himself, not because of. When he doesn't have a whole team of people keeping him from making insane statements/promises/business moves, the image of a successful, shrewd businessperson really crumbles. I'm not fooled by the illusion any longer, but I do understand it's hard to separate the things he's taken credit from other people for, vs the things he himself championed/implemented.
Congratulations, you've created an unfalsifiable worldview for yourself where Musk's outrageous success with Tesla and SpaceX has turned into evidence of his unhinged incompetence as a CEO.
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You also have to fire a lot of management that allowed the org chart to explode in the first place. Maybe take a few lessons from the Elon Twitter playbook.
Looking to musk for intelligent, thought-through business decisions is definitely an interesting strategy.
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He didn't buy Twitter to make money. He saw it as the propaganda tool that it had become, and bought it to rotate it 180 degrees and point it back in the opposite direction.
That's a really bold declaration, given how hard he tried to renege on the deal and how severely he tried to cut costs.
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If you say so. He single-handedly destroyed one of the best brands of the modern online era (tweet, Twitter, the bird logo) only to replace it with a brand identity that was stale 20 years ago and is commonly associated with porn. The site’s traffic continues to plummet and his investment is worth billions less since he unleashed his acumen.
Yet I still can’t go a day without being sent a Twitter link or seeing comments on HN. Twitter will be dead when people stop talking about it dying.
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Musk is successful despite himself, not because of. When he doesn't have a whole team of people keeping him from making insane statements/promises/business moves, the image of a successful, shrewd businessperson really crumbles. I'm not fooled by the illusion any longer, but I do understand it's hard to separate the things he's taken credit from other people for, vs the things he himself championed/implemented.
Congratulations, you've created an unfalsifiable worldview for yourself where Musk's outrageous success with Tesla and SpaceX has turned into evidence of his unhinged incompetence as a CEO.