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Re: Reddit banned me for developing Geddit

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Post by damascus »

01HNNWZ0MV43FF wrote: post #160
epolanski wrote: post #146

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

> If the pendulum can swing so broadly ever 4 years I'd better watch it, right?

Honest question: If, other than voting every 4 years, you have no ability to impact change, why spend the time watching it? Why not spend the time doing something more constructive that you have the ability to impact? (aside from prior to the election to inform voting, of course)

Re: Reddit banned me for developing Geddit

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Post by DaSHacka »

nvarsj wrote: post #89
gdiamos wrote: post #74

I unplugged from Reddit when they did this and my life is much better. Reddit had a good community and content in the early days, but as it grew in popularity and squeezed profit the value dropped. I think it’s funny that early LLM projects were bootstrapped by scraping Reddit. I guess it was better than random garbage from common crawl, but the world has moved on.

It still has good communities I'd say. It depends hugely on the mods. There's nothing else like /r/anime, for example.

> There's nothing else like /r/anime, for example.

/a/? MAL? I think anime discussion is one of the few topics readily abundant elsewhere on the web, it's the other niches that are really hard to find.

Re: Reddit banned me for developing Geddit

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Post by lamontcg »

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…

> a bot fest and propaganda machine.

The bigger problem is the amount of lazy comments on the site, which are invariably highly upvoted.

I'm so sick of pun threads, and office references and any other popular culture reference.

They've just about made me start to hate Monty Python, which is quite an accomplishment.

The latest is that everyone is beating Dune references absolutely to death.

If someone wants an AI project idea, then a browser extension which used an LLM to score all the comments in a Reddit thread and filter out all the lazy comments would be useful. If it works, most of the comments on front page articles should disappear.

It would probably eliminate most of the actual bot comments as well.

Re: Reddit banned me for developing Geddit

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Post by rglullis »

sumeno wrote: post #158
rglullis wrote: post #133

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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

I meant spam as shorthand for "bulk send of messages of similar content". Cheap to produce and to send. If bots paid by some government count as spam, then we should also say the same about sponsored content or PR releases.

Anyway, my point is that charging for access to a network where access is already open is good enough for a filter to avoid spam originating from your node. Spammers are not going to be interested in paying $29/year to be able to send posts via Mastodon when they can just create a bunch of accounts on servers with open registrations or simply running their own botnet.

Re: Reddit banned me for developing Geddit

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Post by karmakaze »

The JSON representation is great for classical web scraping, but I wonder if LLMs are already good at 'seeing' HTML/CSS/js that it's more work to specialize.

I could see Reddit as being a large source of content so worth the effort, at least until it's disabled--but that hasn't happened so far.

Re: Reddit banned me for developing Geddit

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Post by remram »

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…

The problem with Lemmy is that subreddits ("communities") are tied to a specific instance. So basically every instance has its own separate c/linux, c/funny, c/technology, c/anime, etc. This makes it really hard to use.

Re: Reddit banned me for developing Geddit

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Post by malshe »

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

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> 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…

One cent sounds low but it’s not zero, which has a special place in pricing.

Check out this paper:

https://people.duke.edu/~dandan/webfiles/PapersPI/Zero%20as%...

Re: Reddit banned me for developing Geddit

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Post by stvltvs »

patrickmcnamara wrote: post #73
satvikpendem wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's not just the app, the content itself has regressed. Where previously many subs actually had content related to their name, now it's 90% American political content. Evert r/pics is not immune. It's not just the posts, the comments too have political stances in them too, for many posts even unrelated to politics. It's tiring to read.

The content died around the same time the app was released. It made Reddit more accessible and thus it got a much wider and worse (and younger) audience than it previously had.

Eternal September

Re: Reddit banned me for developing Geddit

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Post by extraduder_ire »

maipen wrote: post #18
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…

> 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…

Is the reddit experience that much worse without an account?

I only browse old.reddit logged out and log in if I want to to comment before logging out by deleting my cookies. I started doing this after seeing the first "year in review" thing they sent to my account, which creeped me out. Especially not being able to disable this type of data collection, on either of the two sites.

I may be having an easier time of it by using RES though.

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