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Re: Reddit banned me for developing Geddit

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Post by washadjeffmad »

efdee wrote: post #128
mrinfinitiesx wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Does this help?

"Check out Reddit. Pick a subreddit: can start with https://reddit.com/r/popular or start 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 start your own or go choose a new subreddit. content will be the same, mods will be different and what they mod will be different."

Re: Reddit banned me for developing Geddit

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Post by pbronez »

rglullis wrote: post #86

Looks like it's time for me to plug my fediverser [0] project. It can help people migrate away from Reddit by letting people sign up to a Lemmy instance [1] with their Reddit credentials and automatically subscribe them to the corresponding Lemmy alternative. The alternatives are crowdsourced. There is a "flagship" deployment at https://fediverser.network but if you want to fork it, you just need to run your instance…

I would really love for a Lemmy constellation to reproduce the peak Reddit experience. So far the activity isn’t there, but I’m trying to show up and be part of the solution.

Re: Reddit banned me for developing Geddit

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Post by nonlogical »

subsection1h wrote: post #120
badsectoracula wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Maybe this is a pattern common to most all group-oriented social media Channel operator drama was a major thing with IRC back when it was popular (sometimes ending to like channel splits or even whole netsplits if the people involved were related to the server operators, bot/flood wars, etc), so yeah, there isn't anything specific to Reddit about it. I wasn't part of it but i am pretty sure you'd see the same patte…

> despite the romantization, i somehow doubt that Usenet was all roses before the "Eternal September" Usenet was the best discussion platform I've ever used. People who posted questions to comp.lang.c without first reading K&R were commonly killfiled. People who posted questions to the comp.infosystems.www.authoring newsgroups without first reading relevant W3C specs were commonly killfiled. It was awesome. Can anyon…

I am sure places like this have their right to exist, and they would probably be a great place to consume… without actively participating. By nature of being strict and exclusionary they will essentially tend towards becoming a relatively small exclusive club perhaps slightly bordering on being an echo chamber. Whether you consider that a bad thing or good, I am not making a judgement call here.

Also the cycle/churn of software is so quick nowadays that manuals are often written as a second or third thought for majority of the projects. So I can not really blame folks for just directly probing for tribal knowledge.

Re: Reddit banned me for developing Geddit

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Post by rglullis »

pbronez wrote: post #152
rglullis wrote: post #86

Looks like it's time for me to plug my fediverser [0] project. It can help people migrate away from Reddit by letting people sign up to a Lemmy instance [1] with their Reddit credentials and automatically subscribe them to the corresponding Lemmy alternative. The alternatives are crowdsourced. There is a "flagship" deployment at https://fediverser.network but if you want to fork it, you just need to run your instance…

I would really love for a Lemmy constellation to reproduce the peak Reddit experience. So far the activity isn’t there, but I’m trying to show up and be part of the solution.

That's the spirit!

Re: Reddit banned me for developing Geddit

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Post by kelseyfrog »

wildrhythms wrote: post #127
latexr wrote: post #55

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> 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?

You could take a page out of quadratic voting and scale costs nonlinearly. Then spamming would be disproportionately costly. This raises some interesting problems like, why not simply create multiple accounts, which have a different tradeoff calculus.

Re: Reddit banned me for developing Geddit

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Post by sumeno »

rglullis wrote: post #133
themoonisachees wrote: post #125

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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.

Bots being paid by a state that is a misinformation campaign is not the same as spam. Assuming the Fediverse was as popular as Twitter/FB, they could simply run their own instances, no need to pay for access through any specific server.

Bots spamming misinformation isn't spam, gotcha. Really moving the goalposts there

Re: Reddit banned me for developing Geddit

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Post by GrantSolar »

subsection1h wrote: post #120
badsectoracula wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Maybe this is a pattern common to most all group-oriented social media Channel operator drama was a major thing with IRC back when it was popular (sometimes ending to like channel splits or even whole netsplits if the people involved were related to the server operators, bot/flood wars, etc), so yeah, there isn't anything specific to Reddit about it. I wasn't part of it but i am pretty sure you'd see the same patte…

> despite the romantization, i somehow doubt that Usenet was all roses before the "Eternal September" Usenet was the best discussion platform I've ever used. People who posted questions to comp.lang.c without first reading K&R were commonly killfiled. People who posted questions to the comp.infosystems.www.authoring newsgroups without first reading relevant W3C specs were commonly killfiled. It was awesome. Can anyon…

These are criticisms that are leveraged against stack overflow all the time. I'm more lenient on SO's stance because it at least wants (or claims to) to be a repository for truth, rather then filtering out questions because of "lol noob"

Re: Reddit banned me for developing Geddit

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Post by 01HNNWZ0MV43FF »

epolanski wrote: post #146
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…

Their apps and website both keep getting worse and worse. Reddit is one of those great examples were management and execs all feel like they need to show their impact and justify their salary and just make the platform worse. Bots and propaganda are literally everywhere. The platform keeps getting worse but I admit it is to some extent addictive. I am somewhat happy that HN is one of those places where politics are g…

I thought the site was getting worse because that's the natural life cycle of image hosts and Reddit decided to become an image host.

HN is avoiding it because somebody else pays to run it and there's zero images or videos.

Also re: politics, stuff the federal government does affects me a lot whereas most local governments seem pretty similar and powerless. If the pendulum can swing so broadly ever 4 years I'd better watch it, right?

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