So, will Reddit still manage to have an IPO soon? Or maybe better to ask, a successful one.
Apollo is dead. Long live Apollo
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#112Official post as shared over here earlier (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36541886)
https://www.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/14nb5qs/today_is...
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#113I remember signing up for Reddit as a college freshman. I was a digg user and joined Reddit in the aftermath of that fiasco. I sometimes laugh looking over my post history for the past decade plus. If you read the posts linearly, you can trace my evolution from a kid arguing passionately over politics and culture (things he didn't really know much about), to a more mature young adult who rarely waded into discussions…
I can trace my earliest account to middle school. You can imagine the cringe on there...
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#114So many sites and companies have turned on the users that put them on the map. Twitter, Red Hat, Reddit. It's like they're saying "we don't need the users anymore."
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#115So where is everybody going after reddit?
FB Groups :(
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#116Earlier quoted context omitted.
apparently there is going to be a Sync for Lemmy. Hopefully we also get Apollo for Lemmy and get rid of reddit for good.
On that note, does anyone know if there’s any decent lemmy mobile apps? I searched a bit but couldn’t find anything meaningful
For Android there's Jerboa which seems to have the most features and Liftoff which is still getting there. Personally I like Thunder which supports iOS as well, I got it off GitHub
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#117This happens to coincide with the date that a new law (singed May 12th) goes into effect in Virginia requiring commercial entities that publish or distribute "material harmful to minors" to verify the age of the users. Commercial entities violating that may suffer civil penalties. https://legiscan.com/VA/text/SB1515/2023
I don’t know law and am bad at technology too but I’m wondering if there is ways companies can get around these kinds of laws through a combination of geofencing, blocking IPs, and displaying messages that the service isn’t available in a particular state/country. I understand that it might make economic sense but just wondering if showing a certain amount of due diligence helps absolve them legally.
That's exactly what some of them do.
Pornhub blocks access in Virginia over new age verification law - https://www.wric.com/news/virginia-news/pornhub-blocks-acces...
Part of the challenge with this one is it does that "civil right of action" where it's not the state suing the entity but private citizens. That makes it more difficult for the company to defend against it.
Though this gets into a "how much effort are you going to put into it" and "how much control do you have over the ways the content is distributed?"
This also is about liability for the backend service - not the ISPs or other providers (3rd party apps are in a gray zone as to if it is Reddit or the 3rd party app that would be liable for showing such content... and my crystal ball says it would probably end up being that Reddit would be solely liable).
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#118Oh that's dumb. I forgot to check my inbox before midnight. I had offered Tildes invites and don't have the password to that account (but have been logged in since years, can access the auth token, etc., but reddit doesn't want you to recover from this scenario, so that's gone forever). Well... anyone here needs a Tildes invite?
Would love a tildes invite
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#119Probably would have been interesting to relaunch the Apollo with its own backend as a direct competitor to Reddit. I think one simple push notification would've pulled millions of the most active users over to the new service
That would have required negotiating image hosting, having a significant amount of server power and storage space, dealing with laws about who can see what, and active moderation until volunteers can be found to moderate the content. Having someone to deal with DMCA requests and age verification laws. If it wasn't a subscription service (that had to front load a lot of its costs), it also involves getting advertisers…
So, are we just pretending like reddit has any of that when it started out?
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#120This happens to coincide with the date that a new law (singed May 12th) goes into effect in Virginia requiring commercial entities that publish or distribute "material harmful to minors" to verify the age of the users. Commercial entities violating that may suffer civil penalties. https://legiscan.com/VA/text/SB1515/2023
Sounds coincidental. It doesn't have anything to do with pricing and NSFW content is still flowing to the remaining clients (as of right now). Reddit has never mentioned that law either as far as I know.