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I wish they would just let Reddit die. I hate it so much. I'm tired of ecosystems. We need to get away from content farms. Get away from shitty monetization driven efforts. Get away from shitty people moderating communities without giving members any locus of control. Bring back the 90s web. Bring back personal websites. Bring back people sharing their own content on their own terms. God I hope Reddit sticks to this…
Decentralized platforms with no shitty middlemen fiduciarially responsible to shareholders to exploit you even harder next quarter? Where's the $$$$$ in that?!
I wish they would just let Reddit die. I hate it so much. I'm tired of ecosystems. We need to get away from content farms. Get away from shitty monetization driven efforts. Get away from shitty people moderating communities without giving members any locus of control. Bring back the 90s web. Bring back personal websites. Bring back people sharing their own content on their own terms. God I hope Reddit sticks to this…
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Three big issues off the top of my head: * Hosting costs. Reddit was very lucky to have imgur pick up a lot of its bandwidth in its early days, but free image/video hosting sites are cyclical: absent a benevolent billionaire, the costs will rise with popularity, and the site will eventually need a source of revenue, which will introduce friction and start its inevitable decline in popularity. * Moderation. Always a h…
> Personally, I like places like HN What are those places?
I agree. Please let Reddit die already. Just before I stopped using, some stranger messaged me (in the same language) and offered to sell me video sex with a young person. Reddit has become a prostitution platform.
I started to build an alternative: https://flingup.com It’s not much, but it’s honest work. If all this does is create a tiny fragment with a hundred people, I’ll call it success. For now, me and a handful of people use it to share articles we find interesting.
The days of MySpace losing to Facebook or Digg losing to Reddit are over. We reached a phase where the biggest networks are too big to die quickly. It no longer seems possible to replace these sites wholesale. Their decline will look like Craigslist's. They'll still be around a decade from now, but having slowly and steadily lost traffic and cultural relevance. I fully welcome Twitter and Reddit suddenly sacrificing…
We need to go back to build open protocols. Protocols instead of programs. And then let Open Source and companies build the programs. That was a fight we had "won" on the days of MP3 (very painful), SMTP, MKV, among others during the 80s and 90s. The fact that people are now more willing to go back to install "real software" (in the form of phone applications) instead of web apps is an opportunity.
I wish they would just let Reddit die. I hate it so much. I'm tired of ecosystems. We need to get away from content farms. Get away from shitty monetization driven efforts. Get away from shitty people moderating communities without giving members any locus of control. Bring back the 90s web. Bring back personal websites. Bring back people sharing their own content on their own terms. God I hope Reddit sticks to this…
> Bring back the 90s. Bring back personal websites. Bring back people sharing their own content on their own terms.
Not sure if you remember the 90s like I do. The percentage of people sharing their own content on their own terms was dwarfed by that of content hosted on 'ecosystems'. In fact, I'd assert that the path to accomplishing the same is far less steep now compared to then.
I wish they would just let Reddit die. I hate it so much. I'm tired of ecosystems. We need to get away from content farms. Get away from shitty monetization driven efforts. Get away from shitty people moderating communities without giving members any locus of control. Bring back the 90s web. Bring back personal websites. Bring back people sharing their own content on their own terms. God I hope Reddit sticks to this…
Today's reddit mods are the same as Digg's power user's back in the day. It's an open secret that a few dozen or so individuals control the top 100 or so subreddits, and calling that fact out is often met with site wide bans. Reddit died a long time ago, and it's time we let it go.
Good riddance frankly.
I started to build an alternative: https://flingup.com It’s not much, but it’s honest work. If all this does is create a tiny fragment with a hundred people, I’ll call it success. For now, me and a handful of people use it to share articles we find interesting.
Your website offers me to install a "Create React App Sample" app. Which makes me wonder what tech stack you are using.