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Re: Reddit banned me for developing Geddit

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Post by boppo1 »

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

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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…

>For example, imagine a Reddit clone, but every comment you want to post costs one cent.

Someone built this (a 4chan clone) on ethereum, I can't remember what it's called. It was pretty dead, but the project exists.

Re: Reddit banned me for developing Geddit

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Post by diggan »

nabla9 wrote: post #101
diggan wrote: post #88

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> 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.

Sure, maybe for some months at max, until people notice they're being squeezed and leave en-masse. I'll believe the common "X can turn profitable at any point" once it's been demonstrated.

Re: Reddit banned me for developing Geddit

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Post by themoonisachees »

boppo1 wrote: post #121
Etheryte wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

>For example, imagine a Reddit clone, but every comment you want to post costs one cent. Someone built this (a 4chan clone) on ethereum, I can't remember what it's called. It was pretty dead, but the project exists.

Ethereum has (had?) the added problem of fees and latency. After ~2018, doing anything on Ethereum required you to spend like $20 and wait 40 minutes.

Re: Reddit banned me for developing Geddit

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Post by fy20 »

mubu wrote: post #12

Reddit was my favorite website growing up. I'd discover new interesting subs, read random posts and comments. The frontpage was somewhat interesting too, but now it feels like a bot fest and propaganda machine. I still use Reddit but way less than I used to before, and I no longer use it for fun but just to read niche tech subs. I refuse to use the official mobile app. I've always used Baconreader and then Relay on A…

I tried to use the official Reddit app, but it's buggy as hell. Everytime I launch it I am shown the Reddit logo for ~30 seconds, then it asks me to login again. This is not an uncommon issue, and the advice I've seen to fix it is to enable it to run in the background.

Re: Reddit banned me for developing Geddit

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Post by themoonisachees »

rglullis wrote: post #113
sumeno wrote: post #105

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> 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.

First: citation needed in spammers using paid accounts. Why would they pay to spam, go through credit card fraud detection and so on when a free account is (by definition) zero cost? Mind you, I am talking about pure spam and not crazy sophisticated phishing scams. Those certainly exist in Twitter. Second: scale. Twitter has millions of users, it is not profitable and is suing advertisers in a desperate attempt to ju…

All the accounts seen on the popular "ignore previous instructions" screenshots have paid for twitter. There's no reason to believe that these bots don't operate at scale and don't all spend $8 a month.

On top of that, they are effectively paying per word to post through paying for tokens. This does not stop them.

Re: Reddit banned me for developing Geddit

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Post by Kye »

rglullis wrote: post #113
sumeno wrote: post #105

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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.

First: citation needed in spammers using paid accounts. Why would they pay to spam, go through credit card fraud detection and so on when a free account is (by definition) zero cost? Mind you, I am talking about pure spam and not crazy sophisticated phishing scams. Those certainly exist in Twitter. Second: scale. Twitter has millions of users, it is not profitable and is suing advertisers in a desperate attempt to ju…

Spam is not just unsolicited commercial messages. Remember: Stupid Pointless Annoying Message.

The worst I see on Twitter when I peek in come from checkmarks. Cryptocurrency shills are some of the worst offenders and they seem to have taken over.

Re: Reddit banned me for developing Geddit

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Post by wildrhythms »

latexr wrote: post #55
Etheryte wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

> 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. That site wouldn’t have any spam, true. Though not because of the cost, but because it wouldn’t have any users to make it worth spamming. No one wants to pay per message. Everybody would be too nervous and quadr…

>but every comment you want to post costs one cent

So the wealthiest people get to spread the most propaganda?

Re: Reddit banned me for developing Geddit

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Post by efdee »

mrinfinitiesx wrote: post #36
Giorgi wrote: post #21

I moved on reddit back in Digg exodus days. Been there more than 15 years. Got banned recently mentioning that some Palestinians are terrorists. Mods cursed at me in the PM when I reported them to admins, Admin permanently banned my account. It's just a radical left echo-chamber now, which sucks because there are lot's of interesting niche sub forums. I wish someone would actually invest in competing product, with le…

Check out lemmy. Pick an instance: can start with https://lemmy.world or host your own. It's where everybody flocked to. It's decent, has decent content, decent users. If you don't like the mods/censorship you can host your own or go choose a new instance. content will be the same, mods will be different and what they mod will be different

"Pick an instance" is where you lose me already. Same for Mastodon and similar services. "Mods will be different and what they mod will be different" sounds like hell to me.

Not saying it's bad for everyone, just my personal experience. It chases me away.

Re: Reddit banned me for developing Geddit

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Post by efdee »

grumple wrote: post #62
Giorgi wrote: post #21

I moved on reddit back in Digg exodus days. Been there more than 15 years. Got banned recently mentioning that some Palestinians are terrorists. Mods cursed at me in the PM when I reported them to admins, Admin permanently banned my account. It's just a radical left echo-chamber now, which sucks because there are lot's of interesting niche sub forums. I wish someone would actually invest in competing product, with le…

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The fact that you label this as "go mask off" is just showing your own bias, really.
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