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Re: Reddit confirms $300M Series D led by China’s Tencent at $3B value

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Post by username3 »

will_pseudonym wrote: post #35
0xADEADBEE wrote: post #29

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I've a similar problem on Twitter. I don't follow anyone for their political views, so I typically unfollow as soon as I read some but it's far from an optimal solution. I resisted setting an account up for years on Reddit, but you're absolutely right - it's the only way to effectively filter things you don't want to see.

Same with Facebook. I usually just unfollow people who frequently post political things, but at the cost of missing out on their posts about their personal lives. I wish there was a "subject" filter that I could use to filter out political posts.

Feed idea: block posts from user unless tagged with a subject. Show users your post may not be visible unless tagged. Follow people AND subjects.

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Post by jpatokal »

thosakwe wrote: post #197
abnry wrote: post #20

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This is very good advice. One of my most upvoted Hacker News comments was saying that creating an account and whitelisting the subreddits you want to read is a tremendous improvement on reddit. Funny thing to me is that it is really hard to isolate yourself in this way on Twitter. I've spent a lot of time trying to do this but politics always seems to leak through. One thing that has helped is by turning off retweets…

Twitter’s content muring is useless in that it still shows quote Tweets if anyone you mute in your timeline. I have POTUS, Tomi Lahren, and several others blocked and muted, yet they still appear in my timeline because of the infamous “slam dunk quote tweet” phenomenon. It’s not just hard to filter things out on Twitter; it’s downright impossible.

For us Twitter casuals, can you explain what a "slam dunk quote tweet" is?

Re: Reddit confirms $300M Series D led by China’s Tencent at $3B value

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Post by thekyle »

rtpg wrote: post #57
derefr wrote: post #13

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Reddit, like Usenet, or IRC, is just a collection of individual communities that happen to share an identity system. Expecting the (not-logged-in) Reddit front page to be “intellectual discourse” would be like expecting a random selection of Usenet posts or IRC chat-lines to be “intellectual discourse.” Try just visiting specific Reddit communities, rather than looking askew at the entire menagerie as if there was va…

It’s kinda frustrating how recommendation systems on most of these sites are just broken. It recommends popular stuff instead of using this power to help “spread the love”, meaning you end up in a sort of monoculture of popular content. I think it’s on tic-toc where they try to feature “new stuff” a lot more than just popular things, effectively helping along newer users. I know hello talk tries to do this too. Popul…

It's funny that you say you think recommendation systems cause a monoculture of content. I actually think that recommenders have lead to less of a monoculture then ever seen before.

It used to be that everyone in a geographic region would read the same newspapers, watch the same news stations, and listen to the same radio stations. Causing people to mostly be exposed to all the same content. However, now with recommendation algorithms everyone gets exposed to a totally different news diet.

Re: Reddit confirms $300M Series D led by China’s Tencent at $3B value

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Post by asdff »

0xADEADBEE wrote: post #29
abnry wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is very good advice. One of my most upvoted Hacker News comments was saying that creating an account and whitelisting the subreddits you want to read is a tremendous improvement on reddit. Funny thing to me is that it is really hard to isolate yourself in this way on Twitter. I've spent a lot of time trying to do this but politics always seems to leak through. One thing that has helped is by turning off retweets…

I've a similar problem on Twitter. I don't follow anyone for their political views, so I typically unfollow as soon as I read some but it's far from an optimal solution. I resisted setting an account up for years on Reddit, but you're absolutely right - it's the only way to effectively filter things you don't want to see.

Why the pushback on a reddit account? You don't need to post or comment.

You also don't need an account if you want to whitelist with the RES extension instead:

https://redditenhancementsuite.com/

Re: Reddit confirms $300M Series D led by China’s Tencent at $3B value

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Post by Zarel »

peteretep wrote: post #62
robertAngst wrote: post #53

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HN has gotten worse since I started visiting ~2 years ago. That said, still some of the best comments.

I have been here rather longer than you, and not noticed a decline in the time period you’ve identified. I do note however there seems to be a tendency in all communities for people to think it declined since they started using it.

I feel like lately there's been more politics, in terms of news articles as well as comments along the lines of "boo Google" or "boo Facebook", and less new software, people announcing their personal projects with Show HN, interesting comp sci concepts, and that sort of thing.

A good example is this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19140862

I don't remember seeing that kind of politics on HN in the past.

Re: Reddit confirms $300M Series D led by China’s Tencent at $3B value

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Post by x15 »

mamcx wrote: post #138
fermienrico wrote: post #8

I've seen Reddit degrade painfully over last 8-10 years. It was full of intelligent comments, insight and unique perspective from people all over the world. Browsing the front page and reading the comments makes me sad that instead of intellectual discourse, we have a 3 billion dollar meme making machine. I wish to keep HN away from the masses as much as I'd like a broader perspective in the light of how things go wi…

Is weird, because reddit for me is great, sometimes even more than HN and stack overflow. However, I suscribe to rust, mechanical keyboards, how make programming languages...

I can't stress enough how helpful and interesting the /r/rust sub is to me. I have always received at least a few replies to my questions, no matter how noob or hard they are.

One of the most wholesome programming communities I've participated in.

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Post by actuator »

theNJR wrote: post #108
jeffdavis wrote: post #97

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Do you have evidence of this?

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/11/18/world/asia/ch...

Hey, thanks for that. It was certainly an interesting read and scary. It is scary to think that if this continues there will be people outside China who would have never heard of Cultural Revolution, Famine under Mao, Uighur "re-education" camps, Tibet etc.

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Post by quantum_magpie »

baby wrote: post #175
fermienrico wrote: post #8

I've seen Reddit degrade painfully over last 8-10 years. It was full of intelligent comments, insight and unique perspective from people all over the world. Browsing the front page and reading the comments makes me sad that instead of intellectual discourse, we have a 3 billion dollar meme making machine. I wish to keep HN away from the masses as much as I'd like a broader perspective in the light of how things go wi…

Yup. I'm a 10-year reddit user. I looked at the default FP recently and it's all about memes. Stupid animaladvice stuff. Only images. If they re-design this into 9gag I wouldn't be able to tell the difference. It used to be about r/askscience, r/atheism, a lot more textual stuff. I know the best experience is in subscribing to the right subreddits, but it's quite a shame the default front page that newbies land on ha…

In my experience, the best way to do good front page is to blacklist all the crap with RES, so you might still find something new from time to time, but in general enjoy much more clean experience. This also works well in reducing time spent on the site, since the r/all pretty much stays constant during the day.

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Post by [deleted] »

baby wrote: post #185
colanderman wrote: post #150

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Or references to the sovereign nation of Taiwan, or the Dalai Lama or Tibet. Allowing such an oppressive government to control so much of our cultural mindspace is quite chilling.

because you think the US mindset is not controlling a major number of movies? Have you watched American Sniper?

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Re: Reddit confirms $300M Series D led by China’s Tencent at $3B value

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Post by thosakwe »

jpatokal wrote: post #202
thosakwe wrote: post #197

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Twitter’s content muring is useless in that it still shows quote Tweets if anyone you mute in your timeline. I have POTUS, Tomi Lahren, and several others blocked and muted, yet they still appear in my timeline because of the infamous “slam dunk quote tweet” phenomenon. It’s not just hard to filter things out on Twitter; it’s downright impossible.

For us Twitter casuals, can you explain what a "slam dunk quote tweet" is?

Usually political, involves quote tweeting another person with a clever comeback in order to get RTs and likes from people who agree with you.
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