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Re: Reddit banned me for developing Geddit

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Post by mrinfinitiesx »

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.

Just choose https://lemmy.world and not care then. There's other instances https://join-lemmy.org/instances

So if one community like say, https://lemmy.world/c/linux So .. /c/linux has mods and they're questionable you can go find a server/setup that you might think has better mods or a better mission behind them and their /c/linux will be moderated different from lemmy.world's /c/linux but they will all still have the same posts/comments, upvotes downvotes etc. Lemmy.world's deleted posts wont be the new one's deleted posts.

It's a federated Reddit (decentralized) - It gained millions of users when Reddit users jumped ship. It gains more every day because they're getting sick of the astroturfing, left swinging bias, bot bloat, and terrible mods/reddit policies.

So while you can't oust the mods per se you can just go find a different webserver that hosts a lemmy and it'll have different mods, admins etc

Re: Reddit banned me for developing Geddit

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Post by 93po »

conradfr wrote: post #91
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…

The current anti-Trump content is off the chart. I know it's the elections but for (at least) non-Americans it's not that interesting. Actually the genuine content (and votes) seems to be a minority now? Reddit and X are both very bad, where is the non-video fun these days?

reddit has had off the chart anti-trump content for nearly a decade now, as have nearly every single mainstream media outlet

Re: Reddit banned me for developing Geddit

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Post by celdon25 »

c_prompt wrote: post #142
Etheryte wrote: post #34

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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…

I built it. [1] They didn't come. [1] https://valme.io/c/gettingstarted/faq/kqqqs/how-valme-works

Throwing pennies around isn’t a big enough appeal or a viable business, see my other comment in the thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41337617

Re: Reddit banned me for developing Geddit

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Post by celdon25 »

boppo1 wrote: post #121
Etheryte wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

>For example, imagine a Reddit clone, but every comment you want to post costs one cent. Someone built this (a 4chan clone) on ethereum, I can't remember what it's called. It was pretty dead, but the project exists.

Was it Steemit? They had a reasonable amount of activity for awhile, some of it was good content, most of it wasn’t though.

Re: Reddit banned me for developing Geddit

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Post by celdon25 »

bitcharmer wrote: post #175
conradfr wrote: post #91

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The current anti-Trump content is off the chart. I know it's the elections but for (at least) non-Americans it's not that interesting. Actually the genuine content (and votes) seems to be a minority now? Reddit and X are both very bad, where is the non-video fun these days?

I'm from UK and it annoys me too but I can't really blame American redditors for being so engaged. Trump is an existential threat to peace and prosperity so I'll just wait it out.

How many wars did he start, or get started on his watch? Real ones, with dead children, not twitter flame wars.

Re: Reddit banned me for developing Geddit

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Post by bithead »

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…

A fee schedule would help, but I think what may end up happening is what happened to spamcop. The realtime black hole list at one point shutdown open SMTP relays, but how spammers got around it was Spam As A Service providers like mailchimp, sendgrid, salesforce, maropost, and others. Someone will come up with a fee based reddit spam service one can buy to flood reddit with spam drowning out real people (the 'reals' or 'non-bots').

It seems like there are things reddit could do to squelch spam that it doesn't seem to be doing, like disallowing duplicate text in posts as one example. Beyond a certain karma it seems like posting rate becomes unrestricted and I think more than one post every 10 seconds is spamming regardless.

So I think reddit right now doesn't have much incentive to squelch spam since it's not doing that much, it would take effort, and effort == money.

I think the for profit model is reddit's biggest problem right now. Others have pointed to USENET's problems, but in an open protocol those were things that could have been surmounted with effort. The for-profit problem with reddit looks to be insurmountable and the rate of enshitification will only accelerate.

Probably a clone of the old reddit is in order. Like cleddit (.com is squatted on but not .org or .net) or something like that. Or a new version of the USENET protocol. For all it's problems USENET did reveal what made scientology 'tick' behind the scenes on alt.religion.scientology. Some new version of USENET might also address DMCA abuses also.

Re: Reddit banned me for developing Geddit

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Post by [deleted] »

conradfr wrote: post #91
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…

The current anti-Trump content is off the chart. I know it's the elections but for (at least) non-Americans it's not that interesting. Actually the genuine content (and votes) seems to be a minority now? Reddit and X are both very bad, where is the non-video fun these days?

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Re: Reddit banned me for developing Geddit

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Post by epolanski »

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

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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…

How can the federal government impact you more, when anything from building permits, roads, garbage collection impact your daily life regularly?

The last mayor of my city decided to make the entirety of the fields in front of my house (in Italy, countryside near Rome) buildable and completely ruined the view from my house and filled it with traffic.

Re: Reddit banned me for developing Geddit

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Post by tumsfestival »

mrinfinitiesx wrote: post #181
efdee wrote: post #128

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"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.

Just choose https://lemmy.world and not care then. There's other instances https://join-lemmy.org/instances So if one community like say, https://lemmy.world/c/linux So .. /c/linux has mods and they're questionable you can go find a server/setup that you might think has better mods or a better mission behind them and their /c/linux will be moderated different from lemmy.world's /c/linux but they will all still have t…

lol

Most people on Lemmy are leftist and left-biased, in fact there're some pretty big and problematic tankie instances, right-wingers are a rarity and they're ostracized. If anything, people moving to Lemmy are sick of all the neoliberal/right-wing bullshit.

Re: Reddit banned me for developing Geddit

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Post by matrix87 »

satvikpendem wrote: post #35
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…

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.

it's a lot better if you mute a sub the first time it fails to moderate off topic political shit. it's fundamentally a moderation issue

also any sub related to anything remotely gender specific immediately gets overrun with incel content (or female equivalent)

but I do think niche or regional community oriented subs are worth frequenting

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