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Re: Reddit banned me for developing Geddit

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Post by gdiamos »

spyder wrote: post #118
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.

Huh... Moved on to where?

Mostly talking to people irl

Good communities are tough to find and you have to constantly build them

Re: Reddit banned me for developing Geddit

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Post by mrinfinitiesx »

tumsfestival wrote: post #189
mrinfinitiesx wrote: post #181

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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.

Ah, I've been using it for the tech stuff. My mind kind of just blocks that stuff naturally now or tries to. I use it for the technology aspect.

Well, if it's like that, where's the _decent_ websites? I don't use reddit. I block X, Facebook, everything. All that's left is HackerNews. I just want to enjoy higher level discussions.

I'm not down with neo-nazis though.

Re: Reddit banned me for developing Geddit

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Post by jen20 »

latexr wrote: post #97
concordDance wrote: post #85

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> Everybody would be too nervous and quadruple-thinking “is this message worth a cent?" I think that's well below the threshold people would care. The problem is that $0.01 is too low, it'd be well worth spending to advertise or propagandize. For context, USA presidential elections will spend billions, they could make ten billion posts for a fraction of their war chest.

> I think that's well below the threshold people would care. People don’t even pay 0.99$ for apps they use all day every day, opting instead to suffer through ads and have their batteries drained. There’s no chance they’d pay 0.01$ per message . For the vast majority, there are two price points: free and not free. The psychological difference between free and 0.01$ is magnitudes larger than the difference between 0.0…

This is largely because of payment friction: is some scammy site going to manage its own subscription and call to make me cancel? Do I accidentally sign up to some dumb minimum term etc.

Re: Reddit banned me for developing Geddit

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Post by jsbisviewtiful »

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 Reddit app is so buggy and full of features that prevent you from leaving the app when clicking links. It’s so obnoxious. I miss my third party apps.

Re: Reddit banned me for developing Geddit

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Post by jen20 »

rglullis wrote: post #164
sumeno wrote: post #158

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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…

I classify both sponsored content and PR-speak as spam, personally.

Re: Reddit banned me for developing Geddit

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Post by perching_aix »

DaSHacka wrote: post #162
nvarsj wrote: post #89

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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.

I'm really not sure those three communities are all that comparable / compatible...

Re: Reddit banned me for developing Geddit

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Post by diogenescynic »

The mods who run Reddit are the absolute worst part of it. I was banned permanently for making a negative review about a Marvel movie in the movies sub. The moderators are insanely biased and abuse their power. I think long-term Reddit can't grow because the more you participate in the website, you see how deeply artificial and astroturfed it all is.

Re: Reddit banned me for developing Geddit

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Post by EasyMark »

rglullis wrote: post #178
bitcharmer wrote: post #176

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Does this address the problem of power-tripping mods?

I'll be honest with you: I have been having more trouble finding mods than with the mods themselves. Also, I've always stayed away from the controversial/political subreddits, so I never experienced much of "power tripping" mods. The one thing that I have noticed is that I have been reaching to quite a good number of mods on Reddit to see if they would be interested in migrating their communities, but the absolute ma…

I left all "popular" groups when I posted in a "anti-vaccine" group pointing how how one guy was so far off into the weeds that he might circle around to be being right someday. The mere fact that I posted in there over some ludicrous article/comments got me banned in 9 different "popular" groups, some of which I'd never even been in because I dared to post somewhere "unapproved".

Re: Reddit banned me for developing Geddit

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Post by edward28 »

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

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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.

Every America politician is an existential threat to world peace and stability.

Re: Reddit banned me for developing Geddit

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Post by tnias23 »

hi-v-rocknroll wrote: post #23
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…

Well, reddit became worse than that ~10 years ago because of the inconsistent, absurd, immature unreasonableness of a sizable fraction of mods who added suck and subtracted cool from the world. Maybe this is a pattern common to most all group-oriented social media platforms where community mods skew towards being drama-oriented, elitist, and/or crazy because no one else wants the job and so, like policing, it attract…

I can see the function of mods being taken over by ai at some point. Pros might outweigh cons.
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