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Hi all! I wrote this code, and for educational purposes, I’d be more than happy to answer any questions. A gentle reminder that the whole history is here for show. This is very vulnerable — you can see the times I was in a rush, or when I took my time. You’ll find my mistakes. Either way, all I ask is please be kind. I know there are 50 things I could have done better, but this is a product of the reality at the time…
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https://edition.cnn.com/2023/02/10/tech/twitter-top-advertis... : more than half their advertisers quit.
A quick browse around twitter shows they have plenty of adverts to show. They may be selling that ad space for pennies on the dollar... But they are managing to fill it.
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Personally, when someone mentions tweets nowadays, my first impulse is to ridicule / discount it all - "what, are you seriously using a service Elon bought to promote far-right topics...?" Typically it comes out of my mouth in a more moderate stance, like "sorry, I don't use Twitter anymore. Any chance you could link a better forum?"
The most charitable reading of your comment still leads one to question what you would consider the right if Elon is far right. I am pretty sure he is a moderate leaning both ways on differing topics.
There's a Reddit CEO AMA later today: https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/144ho2x/join_our_ce... Can't see it being anything other than a PR disaster for them, unless they change their stance.
The clowns at Reddit couldn't even specify a time. This will be a spectacular shitshow to watch.
https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/8/23754780/reddit-api-update...
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This is what will happen, and generally the people who would leave over these changes are the ones who make worthwhile content, and now they will move elsewhere. But where?
People (statistically on average, not you) come to reddit for ragebait and plagiarism and priacy, not worthwhile content.
Hi all! I wrote this code, and for educational purposes, I’d be more than happy to answer any questions. A gentle reminder that the whole history is here for show. This is very vulnerable — you can see the times I was in a rush, or when I took my time. You’ll find my mistakes. Either way, all I ask is please be kind. I know there are 50 things I could have done better, but this is a product of the reality at the time…
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I wonder.. The very same thing hardly seems to have hurt Twitter.
Maybe so, but Reddit is not Twitter; API access is far more important for Reddit because its official client is garbage and can't handle the long-form content that Reddit is known for. This will have outsized implications for the 1% of users who actually post the content the other 99% come to see in a way that Twitter (and its 280-character comment limitation) does not.
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Thanks for your work. Apollo made using Reddit a decent experience, and clearly you had a very large part in that. User rapnie mentioned the code in the repository doesn't have a license [0]. You might want to review that. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36256566
I’ll check in with Christian and see what he wants to do. Got any particular recommendations?
I wouldn’t add a license unless you specifically want to allow people to copy and use this code, otherwise just ensure that the appropriate copyright notice is present. No license is better than a badly written or badly chosen license — no license already means that all rights are reserved and no rights are given.
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The most charitable reading of your comment still leads one to question what you would consider the right if Elon is far right. I am pretty sure he is a moderate leaning both ways on differing topics.
That's not what the parent wrote though. They were Elon is promoting the far right.