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There are many clients for Reddit but this one is my favourite as it's fast and snappy. It introduced experimental gestures which were highly intuitive which I've not seen anywhere else. Excellent focus on content, I'm going to miss it. It's sad to see so many apps shutting down regardless of what Reddit decides to do post blackout. I suspect there's also an element of relief among these developers not having to spen…
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I suspect it's too late to stop much of the madness. Reddit took $1.4 billion in VC money, and like mobsters, VCs like to get paid back without much regard to how it happens. Even if the Reddit workers unionized, I suspect that Reddit's execs would happily fire every union member rather than significantly jeopardize their IPO. After all, Twitter shows how you can fire the great bulk of your staff, treat the remainder…
Seems more like a tantrum than anything. Not making money fast enough? Better break it.
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Unions can definitely influence them. E.g., that's a big part of the point of the German Betriebsrat: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Works_council#Germany
Unions can influence them only while they're in CBA negotiations unless they negotiate a seat at the table, as in your example, which is not something that is at all common in the US.
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It’s still there. It’s just at patriots.win now. Although upvotes vary between 100 and 1,000 so, much smaller than it was on Reddit where you’d easily get 10,000+ upvotes.
So like 1 to 10 real people, where it used to be 100?
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Combining tons of disparate web forums under a single toxic leadership is what caused these issues in the first place. I would far prefer either something federated (in the Fediverse sense) or a decent lightweight reddit alternative with no shared accounts, and thus less incentive for karma farming and voting manipulation. Coincidentally, the forum we're commenting on right now uses a fork of the original Reddit code…
> Coincidentally, the forum we're commenting on right now uses a fork of the original Reddit codebase The current codebase was developed from scratch - zero forking - from what I can see. HN is written in ARC http://www.paulgraham.com/arc.html which is a language designed by Paul Graham. Here’s a thread talking about the early days of HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27452276 and it mentions “The earliest vers…
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Yes.
Aside from some advertisers leaving, what other metric are you basing this on?
less tweets per user (down by 25%)
less time spent on the platform
less overall visits
> side from some advertisers leavin
that's some understatement!
Ad Sales: down by 59%
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Aside from some advertisers leaving, what other metric are you basing this on?
less users overall less tweets per user (down by 25%) less time spent on the platform less overall visits > side from some advertisers leavin that's some understatement! Ad Sales: down by 59%
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less users overall less tweets per user (down by 25%) less time spent on the platform less overall visits > side from some advertisers leavin that's some understatement! Ad Sales: down by 59%
Source?