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Re: Reddit banned me for developing Geddit

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Post by nabla9 »

diggan wrote: post #88
nabla9 wrote: post #28

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That's deliberate. They chose to grow their user base instead and it worked. 2019 350 million users 2024 504 million users Investors invest into future free cash flow.

> They chose to grow their user base instead and it worked "It worked" but for what? Usually the idea is to focus on user growth first, and then eventually turn a profit, but what difference does it make if you succeed with the first step if you haven't even thought about the second step, much less be able to succeed with it?

Reddit can turn profitable at any point.

The spend to grow. Sales and marketing $71 million, R&D $142 million. They could easily switch into 25% profit margin business if they stop investing into growth.

Re: Reddit banned me for developing Geddit

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Post by dale_glass »

celdon25 wrote: post #95
odyssey7 wrote: post #76

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Notably, unlike Reddit, HN isn’t a business that needs to be profitable, to my knowledge. It’s a recruiting tool for a major Silicon Valley VC firm. Brainrot isn’t going to attract as much of the talent or stimulate the ideas they’d want to fund, so HN has been good at resisting brainrot. This is my own analysis, I don’t have a source for it. The internet has always had nice discussion forums that were labors of love…

> altruistic billionaires finance more discussion forums that don’t exist to be profitable, at least not directly. A certain person tried that, but HN has given them nothing but hate over it. If there’s a specific idea you or others had in mind that was different, I haven’t seen any serious proposals or roadmaps posted. I’d love to see it though, I’d rather things be more decentralized without the contemporary gateke…

You mean Twitter? It's pretty much opposite from what I want from a platform.

What I want is more or less Mastodon. A feed ordered by date, a complete lack of algorithmic suggestion (unless maybe I explicitly ask for it), a complete lack of advertising, and stringent moderation that enforces things in my preferred direction.

Re: Reddit banned me for developing Geddit

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Post by celdon25 »

chrisan wrote: post #80
unsupp0rted wrote: post #67

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American politics has eaten everything, even my beloved Simpsons Shitposting sub. And my Star Trek Memes sub. When you comment to complain, you get "Star Trek has always been political", "The Simpsons has always been political". Yeah... but Star Trek memes hasn't always been. /r/SimpsonsShitposting used to be funny, not just sarcastic eye-rolls about [current-republican-bogey-man/woman strawman].

Hopefully after this cycle the MAGAism dies out (assuming Trump doesnt win) and politics becomes boring again

You’ll likely have worse problems on deck in that case, with no fashionable scapegoat to blame this time, even if we consider the effects of the wars alone. If you’re complaining about hearing too much about political drama, that just means you’ve been insulated from the real problems that haven’t reached your social class yet. I predict it won’t be long though.

Re: Reddit banned me for developing Geddit

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Post by clircle »

theanonymousone wrote: post #57

You can also add .rss to subreddit urls and get rss feeds. Given that rss is _designed_ to be read by "bots" i.e. computer programs, what is Reddit's stance there? Do they also consider it "bypassing API restrictions"?

that's what I do. I suppose the Reddit folks do not care about the rss because either they forgot about it, or because it doesn't serve the full content, so it's not useful for apps.

My trick: subscribe to the "top weekly" feeds for each of your subs, which keeps the fire hose at a very manageable level.

Re: Reddit banned me for developing Geddit

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Post by sumeno »

rglullis wrote: post #81
Etheryte wrote: post #34

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I feel like this is another example of a problem that could be easily solved if we had integrated, anonymous and frictionless payments on the web. For example, imagine a Reddit clone, but every comment you want to post costs one cent. For a regular user it takes a while to build up even a hundred comments, meanwhile for a spammer, this could quickly become costly. The hurdle of course is that no one wants to put thei…

No need to charge per message. Just make every user pay an annual membership fee for entrance. This is how https://communick.com works. I have a small userbase, but zero issues with spam and abuse.

> I have a small userbase, but zero issues with spam and abuse.

You have zero issues with spam and abuse because you have a small user base, not because of the fee.

Twitter has TONS of paid accounts for spam.

Re: Reddit banned me for developing Geddit

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Post by BlueTemplar »

Etheryte wrote: post #34
maipen wrote: post #18

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> but now it feels like a bot fest and propaganda machine. Pretty much sums up every popular social media platform these days. HN is still a good place to learn about whats going on in the tech world and what not because it's simple and filters out alot of "brainrot", although there is an increasing number of comments that soley react at the headline. Reddit has become like meta, you either have an account or your us…

I feel like this is another example of a problem that could be easily solved if we had integrated, anonymous and frictionless payments on the web. For example, imagine a Reddit clone, but every comment you want to post costs one cent. For a regular user it takes a while to build up even a hundred comments, meanwhile for a spammer, this could quickly become costly. The hurdle of course is that no one wants to put thei…

"good for a while" is incompatible with "anonymous" : which means there's no account that could be linked back to you (think how 4chan is used).

Also it tends to be made illegal for obvious reasons (even if in practice, everyone but the most careful user eventually gets identified by their IP, the logs of which Web servers are legally obligated to keep in most states).

Otherwise, if you actually meant pseudonymous payments, well, Flattr actually tried to do it. Flattr 1.0 basically died in the 2012-2013 Twitter APIpocalypse, while Flattr 2.0 never managed to get enough reach, unlike the Silicon Valley backed, new competitor, Patreon.

Re: Reddit banned me for developing Geddit

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Post by Traubenfuchs »

I still don‘t understand why apps like apollo did not add a balance account used to pay the necessary API requests. Combined with heavy caching this should have been easily possible and financially viable. Someone could have even built a cache gateway backend for multiple 3rd party apps…

Re: Reddit banned me for developing Geddit

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Post by seabass-labrax »

rglullis wrote: post #86

Looks like it's time for me to plug my fediverser [0] project. It can help people migrate away from Reddit by letting people sign up to a Lemmy instance [1] with their Reddit credentials and automatically subscribe them to the corresponding Lemmy alternative. The alternatives are crowdsourced. There is a "flagship" deployment at https://fediverser.network but if you want to fork it, you just need to run your instance…

Congratulations on the NLnet grant! I'm one of the 'silent' contingent on Reddit - frequently reads, but never posts. It is possible to use Mastodon or another ActivityPub application to interact with Lemmy (and vice-versa) to some extent, which will hopefully allow the two types of social networks to help each other grow.

Would it be viable to add a setting for your own Fediverse account so that you could click on the communities to redirect them to your own server? For instance, if I search for /r/switzerland, there would be a button by the Fediverser suggestion of switzerland@feddit.ch to open it on my own Fediverse server - like the 'Take me home' button on the Mastodon web client.

Re: Reddit banned me for developing Geddit

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Post by sumeno »

Havoc wrote: post #93

Surprised anyone is developing against reddit as a platform at all. Relying on a platform in general is risky...but Reddit?!? It has a single redeeming feature - network effects on good user conent. That's it...literally everything else about it is a dumpsterfire, including how they treat devs.

This was a fun personal project, not a business, and it sounds like they were aware it was going to get shut down the whole time.

Re: Reddit banned me for developing Geddit

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Post by dotnet00 »

surgical_fire wrote: post #54
Iulioh wrote: post #4

Man, i just hate the new reddit, but in a way i appreciate the fact that the update literally stopped me from continuing to use it. It was my togo app, i spent hours browsing and reading random comments and articles, my English got surprisingly better than most of my peers and all it took was a mild internet addiction. Now it's short form content for me. YouTube mainly (premium helps a lot, tiktok enshittified a litt…

My last day on Reddit was when RiF died. It was surprisingly easy to abandon it.

Same here, had trouble controlling the habit before, but was surprisingly easy to drop it when RiF died.
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