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Nostalgic for the old Digg days. Invite-only communities not so much. But given the botting all over social media, guess I can't blame them. I would not be surprised if there's a lot of brouhaha over how it's moderated, since moderation is considered way more controversial now than it used to be in the old days.
HN is moderated…
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I'm on the old style Reddit and it hasn't really changed much for years. I imagine they are wary of mucking it up after knowing what it did to Digg.
Interestingly, I can still log in and post (and get replies) on Old Reddit with my 15-year old username and pw (no email or other form of auth needed). I remember trying to log in using that acc via New Reddit and it said that user didn't exist! I wonder if Old Reddit-era accounts are on a separate DB.
You can probably validate this theory with a basic time based analysis.
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I have a trans kid at 15. Living their best life. Knew the kid from day one (today’s their 15th birthday). Guess what? It’s all their choice, suggestion, etc. While I’d prefer their original name (I mean, I chose that for a reason), everything else is obvious and right in retrospect. Instead of just /watching/ a neighbor, you could /be/ a neighbor and get to know them. You might feel differently about your preconcept…
I do actually know them. I'm nice as can be and help the family with their cars. But what's being done to that kid is terrible and most likely permanent. I don't think a kid is old enough to know if this stuff should be done to them.
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I do actually know them. I'm nice as can be and help the family with their cars. But what's being done to that kid is terrible and most likely permanent. I don't think a kid is old enough to know if this stuff should be done to them.
And so you’ve decided trans kids will be your goto issue in internet discourse? Curious.
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I've been on Reddit almost since day 1. It was not like this.
The best thing they ever did in those early days was remove /r/atheism from the default subs. Good lord what a cesspool (and I'm not a theist!).
Digg failed because they weren't listening to what the users wanted. Reddit has been doing the same thing for a long time, and there's a large number of people looking for somewhere to migrate to. It'd be hilarious if New Digg becomes that, but I'm feeling pretty skeptical that New Digg is going to be any better. What little I've seen about New Digg talks about crypto, AI, and "Gems" you can earn which is far from a…
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And so you’ve decided trans kids will be your goto issue in internet discourse? Curious.
Only once I realized there's people hurting children that won't let you even talk about it, calling others bigots.
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Fair assessment. I think Reddit right now sits in some weird space between Discord/Nextdoor/Quora, with most content posted after ~2018-2019 being extremely low quality, outside of some niche subreddits. But overall it is just a gateway to other platforms where the really interesting conversations are happening and content is being created.
> with most content posted after ~2018-2019 being extremely low quality, outside of some niche subreddits. I've read plenty of garbage on Reddit, but what percentage of Reddit content since 2018 do you think you've seen? How many zeros after that decimal point?
That's the equivalent of asking what % of Google Search results have you seen in order to say that there's been a drop in result quality.
Digg failed because they weren't listening to what the users wanted. Reddit has been doing the same thing for a long time, and there's a large number of people looking for somewhere to migrate to. It'd be hilarious if New Digg becomes that, but I'm feeling pretty skeptical that New Digg is going to be any better. What little I've seen about New Digg talks about crypto, AI, and "Gems" you can earn which is far from a…
I just can't figure out where people are turning next.