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The story of Reddit would make a good TV show, kind of "The Social Network" crossed with "The Crown". So many ups and downs, and many cross overs to other things happing in tech and the wider world. You could easily fill three or four seasons. "The front page of the Internet"
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How is that?
Reddit recently announced changes to their APIs pricing and features that will probably lead to the abandonment of most third-party Reddit clients. Users of those clients are upset. https://www.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/12ram0f/had_a_fe...
I understand people being wary, especially in light of how Twitter changed their API years ago, but I'd love some more concrete info and specific complaints about this change in particular.
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Reddit recently announced changes to their APIs pricing and features that will probably lead to the abandonment of most third-party Reddit clients. Users of those clients are upset. https://www.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/12ram0f/had_a_fe...
but lets say they're upset enough to leave - where will they go en masse that replaces reddit?
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That is the day I will quit reddit and never look back. 6 months ago I rarely used old.reddit.com, but now I run into more and more dark patterns all the time. They tried to TikTok my feed and it was an awful experience. I frequently default to it now instead of using it only when I get sick of the dark patterns. Reddit got popular because Digg screwed up their comment threading. It's sad to see reddit is starting to…
The entire Internet at the 'fantastic' time of Reddit was very much tilted towards the elite class that could 1. Afford an expensive computer or phone (or have access from University) 2. Afford Internet (and for an added bump of exclusivity add mobile Internet) (or have access from University) 3. Have the time/inclination to put lots of energy into CREATING Internet content (via either a hobby site, or composing well…
I don't give a toss if someone has an expensive device or university internet, and I resent the implication that only "an elite class" can compose a well thought out post.
The fact is, billionaires pay people to keep the status quo. Those people hire other people - to program bots, to hire PR goons, to spend millions or even billions on swaying vulnerable minds with echo-chamber media drones -- all to warp discussion online and IRL.
Tobacco companies did it, fossil fuel companies did it, and you can be certain tech companies and governments are doing it too.
You're discounting all of that, and then calling people classist for wanting good-faith discussion. Uncool.
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Funny both Alexis is a VC now, and he actually invested in kevin's NFT 10k PFP (Moonbrids) The Reddit Mafia
reddit basically became everything the founders mocked when they first started it. https://sp.reddit.com/reddit2.html
Open reddit now and there's no silly unusable tag clouds, no top-of-page ads, no 3rd-party ad serving, no gradients, no overdone logo, no tagline, no allcaps headings, no giant voting arrows...
I don’t really want to listen to the podcast, but I do seem to recall that Reddit drew heavy inspiration from the delicious popular page. digg was talked about a bunch but much smaller… https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1389494
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There is a very big difference between giving no credit and giving a fair amount of credit, which might be small. If you listened to the podcast they talked about Aaron in a non-disparaging way, and a way that I'm sure is accurate to their beliefs about it. But my point is that _even if_ Aaron was super, super important to the company 16 years ago (which I can't speak to), Reddit was a tiny little fledgling of what i…
If people have to listen to a podcast to hear them present a balanced view, clearly they've failed to do so publicly. I'll pass on listening to the podcast, there are thousands of others I'd rather listen to. Thanks anyways.
> If people have to listen to a podcast to hear...
birken wasn't saying that this information is only in a podcast, he's talking about a podcast because that's the article we're discussing.
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Reddit recently announced changes to their APIs pricing and features that will probably lead to the abandonment of most third-party Reddit clients. Users of those clients are upset. https://www.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/12ram0f/had_a_fe...
but lets say they're upset enough to leave - where will they go en masse that replaces reddit?
