That’s great. Worked similarly for the twitter addiction.
I’ve heard of Growth Hacks, but it really does seem like Steve Huffman could right a book on Decline Hacks. He may be the GOAT.
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Tell HN: Reddit now blocks VPN access via browser, 'old' subdomain included
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Re: Tell HN: Reddit now blocks VPN access via browser, 'old' subdomain included
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It's not a perfect "block every VPN ip setup". See this for the screen you get when it's blocking: https://imgur.com/a/3cDv851 Perhaps when they detect abuse (screen scraping folks trying to avoid the API costs) from these shared IPs?
So you can bypass it by creating an account? Absolute non-issue once again.
Maybe? Reddit isn't renowned for accuracy.
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Uh, reddit already won what exactly? How does going public have anything to do with success for a company like this? It's a way to raise capital and compensate insiders, nothing special Communities come and go. They are 95% reliant on the members, and some of their recent moves are adversarial. Everything there is becoming corporate, even the porn.
More active users than ever before just in the last 2 quarters of 2023 after stagnating for years. Its almost like the API thing backfired and that bad press was in fact good press and got more people onto reddit.
The coup failed and whatever reddit's been doing is obviously good for business. I'd wager the majority of people boycotting reddit are still using it like nothing happened.
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#194Yes, same here. Let's just QUIT using Reddit. Enough is enough. If we tolerate corrupt behavior, we support corrupt behavior. And quite honestly, it's become such a pile of trash, anyway. Also, it's become so obvious that submissions and comments are being manipulated and pushed by tons of bots and industry interests, it's just a bad joke at this point.
> Let's just QUIT using Reddit. This suggests that you need others to join you in quitting. Why not simply quit yourself?
More people leaving means less FOMO. Or perhaps they want to harm reddit in some karmic justice way.
Re: Tell HN: Reddit now blocks VPN access via browser, 'old' subdomain included
#195We were told that the boycotts last year were the end of reddit, or at least a substantial brain drain. Reddit was going to be a lawless wasteland because no mod would accept tending the garden anymore. Reddit is now a public company with a CEO that just got a huge compensation package while mods still work for free. Far from lawless, far from being a wasteland. Even the hacker community is still using reddit despite…
The vast majority of people turned out to be highly passive and docile in the face of extreme enshittification. Sad, but that's where we're at.
Reddit only "won" the Eternal September types. The others have moved on.
Re: Tell HN: Reddit now blocks VPN access via browser, 'old' subdomain included
#196Earlier quoted context omitted.
Uh, reddit already won what exactly? How does going public have anything to do with success for a company like this? It's a way to raise capital and compensate insiders, nothing special Communities come and go. They are 95% reliant on the members, and some of their recent moves are adversarial. Everything there is becoming corporate, even the porn.
More active users than ever before just in the last 2 quarters of 2023 after stagnating for years. Its almost like the API thing backfired and that bad press was in fact good press and got more people onto reddit.
> more people
how are you so sure the extra traffic is from people?
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> Uh, reddit already won what exactly? The right to do whatever they want and still keep the communities and content with pretty much no impact on their bottom line thereafter. > How does going public have anything to do with success for a company like this? It's a way to raise capital and compensate insiders, nothing special You raise capital if investors believe in the direction the company is heading. They're bett…
For today. Even Facebook is in decline. Online platforms don't last forever.
I thought so myself until reading the latest earnings call.
Re: Tell HN: Reddit now blocks VPN access via browser, 'old' subdomain included
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AFAIK HN doesn't have similar VPN access limits in place. Nor is HN restricting third party API access [1] or selling user content [2] for model training purposes. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Reddit_API_controversy [2] https://www.reuters.com/technology/reddit-ai-content-licensi...
So do you propose that Reddit fund startups every year and use Reddit to promote the startups it funds? How do you propose Reddit make money?
I was addressing your HN comparison. If HN starts adopting similar practices then it'll be fair for the person you were replying to also take a similar stance. Have a "free" public forum where users contribute content was the model Reddit had been using for years. Once they started changing the model, why shouldn't users start questioning their own role in the now outdated arrangement?
Re: Tell HN: Reddit now blocks VPN access via browser, 'old' subdomain included
#199It's been a while that VPNs were blocked on the main website. But I have noticed this since a week that old.reddit.com subdomain has been included. The next step for Reddit would be a complete Login wall like Instagram and co. I would be happy if they do, because it will save my time more (like twitter).
> I would be happy if they do, because it will save my time more (like twitter). Why is that? If you don't have enough self-control to not use Reddit, a login wall won't stop you.
I used to check Twitter 50 times a day, but the login wall combined with killing Nitter completely broke the habit.
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Anecdotally I am seeing communities I am part of gone from Reddit and other public social media in favor of private or semiprivate ones like Discord, or avoiding digital entirely in favor of physical spaces. What I see on social media is more just the leftovers. There's little authentic interaction and engagement there.
Respectfully, this is a small sampling of what's happening. Reddit and Twitter, the two posterchildren of poor management, have plenty of actual interaction. They also have a significant amount of shitty noise, which is incredibly off putting, but the average person is still more likely to go there than where our niche communities end up. They might be dying slowly, but they're not even on life support yet.
I think reddit is actually thriving. Everyone I know spends time there nowadays.