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Post by ciarannolan »

brink wrote: post #177
ciarannolan wrote: post #157

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> At this point I'm convinced Reddit's platform is being used as a propaganda tool, with the goal of bombarding users with the same views in every major subreddit. +1 It's not even subtle anymore. You can predict with 99% accuracy the ideology of any political statements in content on the first 10 pages of r/all. It's a 52M daily user echo chamber.

And anyone with a dissenting opinion is chased off of the site. I had to stop using it over the staggering amount of groupthink and censorship. Didn't they champion themselves as the bastions of free speech at one point?

> Didn't they champion themselves as the bastions of free speech at one point?

Didn't liberals too?

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Post by lmedinas »

BitwiseFool wrote: post #21

Good for Reddit, but I'm becoming increasingly disillusioned with the entire site and how it's managed. The astroturfing isn't even subtle and the same few dozens of accounts dominate the front page day in and day out. The content on the frontpage, r/popular, r/all is starting to congeal into screenshots of tweets. The mods of the biggest subreddits don't seem to care if the content that gets posted actually lives up…

As much as negative your comment sounds thats also my impression... in a bunch of /r/ that I follow i see the same accounts posting nothing else but pure propaganda the whole day and in more than on /r/ the same content. It generates an enormous hype just with a single "simple" post with an image and a "propaganda" title.

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Post by benhurmarcel »

Mediterraneo10 wrote: post #172
abhiminator wrote: post #3

On a side note, really hope reddit's engineering team doesn't kill off their 'old.reddit.com' domain though. That's probably the only thing keeping me from dumping reddit altogether (aside from their API-powered custom reddit apps made by indie devs for Android).

The problem is that the medium is the message, and while you might be using old.reddit.com, most of the other people posting are using the new site. That has lowered the quality of discourse. I first noticed this when people on hobby reddits started asking FAQs that had already been answered in the sidebar – the new design now hid the sidebar from users. So, subreddits where newbies typically got answers before they…

The admins can put messages and links in the new sidebar though.

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Post by dirtyid »

ourlordcaffeine wrote: post #134
denimnerd42 wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

do you ever see how often “chinese harvesting organs” posts make it to the top? that’s pure Falun Gong propaganda. The only reputable evidence for forced organ donation is from legally executed prisoners, a practice which has been stopped. All other sources on the net lead back to Falun Gong propaganda sites. Interesting tidbit is that the Falun Dafa believe their rituals improve their organs so they have the most de…

As a counterpoint, almost every single news story about China, Taiwan or Hong Kong is flooded by users from r/sino and accounts with suspicious histories all using whataboutisms, ad-hominem attacks or just plain old disinformation to change the narrative into a China friendly one. As others have said, the astroturfing is not even subtle.

As a counter-counterpoint, anti-China voices seems to have calmed dramatically right after the US election ended. Suggesting there was much more anti-China astroturfing around election season. Which is expected considering Trump's entire platform was anti-China, and there's much more anti-China shills than pro-China shills.

I too have noticed more pro-China voices on worldnews, but I've monitored and tagged via redditprotools and from my observation these pro-China regulars have been participating for a while, they just used to be more drowned out (suppressed by downvotes) by relatively more dominant anti-China voice. For example, the amount of anti-China users who also actively posted in /r/hongkong has dramatically reduced - hundreds of thousands of low effort HK virtue signallers lost interest. The conversation is balanced now or returned to pre HK drama / post tradewar balance, where pro-China views occasionally get positive reception, whereas before they'd be lucky to be downvoted but controversial.

There's still handful of anti-China HKers/TWers making substantive posts, but mostly indian nationalists or generic anti-China-lifers shitposting now. Bluntly, most anti-China voices are low-effort, ignorant haters with poor boilerplate China-bad rhetoric. Pro-China voices are typically Chinese national, or diaspora or adjacent, they have actual experience and knowledge on Chinese related issues from Chinese perspective. At the end of the day /r/50k sino users can't out astroturf 500k /r/hongkong, 200k /r/china and comparably numerous india nationalist. But they do have better rhetoric and are more invested in the debate compared to lol chinabad tier commentary turned persecution complexes because their debunked GFW banned words copypasta didn't cost 50c shills social credit points. Being anti-China isn't immunity from being unhinged.

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Post by djsumdog »

throwawaysea wrote: post #106

I used to love using Reddit after Digg's disastrous redesign many years ago, but it really has devolved in a number of key ways: 1. Site design. I can't help but think that the site redesign lends itself towards dark patterns, echo chambers, and the kind of "hot take" reactionary culture that makes most of social media so unhealthy. As a user, I am mad that Reddit uses so many annoying nudges to get me to use their m…

Yea, it's a terrible network. I stopped using is as much after the warrant canary went away, and the new design pushed me away more. For a while I only used city subreddits for local stuff, but even those have gone full on hard-core-left and full-establishment. It's frightening.

The recent banning of thousands of communities should scare everyone.

I say this without a throwaway. I agree with you. Not only do I agree with you, but the fact that so many people don't see these very basic things you're pointed out greatly troubles me about the future of our society.

As far as alternatives, don't go for new monolithic platforms like Parler or Ruqqus. Go distributed. Join some Mastodon/Pleroma servers, follow random people, post you videos to a PeerTube instance. The Internet wasn't originally just 40 big top-tier websites. It was tons of cool independent stuff.

oh and one last thing, look up Glassine Maxwell and the reddit controversy. There's an account with her name that was very active, one of the most active account, up until her arrest. After that, Reddit started deleting TONS and TONS of of that comments. That is the world we live in. Stay safe citizen.

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Post by Spare_account »

isatty wrote: post #88
jedberg wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not sure how many of the current admins read HN. I just know some of us old guys hang around here. And FWIW I agree with you. I've been a 15 year reddit user (and employee!) but if old.reddit goes away, I suspect my usage will go way down. The good news is that the current execs know this, because I have told them. But at the end of the day they have to do what's best for the business, and I'm afraid those of us…

How/can we (the users who like old.) help?

Presumably the best thing you can do is use it, to boost the metrics, and click through more adverts you see. Make it valuable for them

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Post by konjin »

nitrohorse wrote: post #103
abhiminator wrote: post #3

On a side note, really hope reddit's engineering team doesn't kill off their 'old.reddit.com' domain though. That's probably the only thing keeping me from dumping reddit altogether (aside from their API-powered custom reddit apps made by indie devs for Android).

Worth keeping an eye on Teddit development [1] [2], an alternative, open-source/self-hostable/JS-free interface similar to Invidious/YouTube, Bibliogram/Instagram, and Nitter/Twitter. Login functionality isn’t supported yet but apparently on the roadmap. [1] https://codeberg.org/teddit/teddit [2] https://teddit.net

That is amazing. I've just replaced the bookmarks I had after 15 seconds. The UI is better on mobile than all reddit incarnations.

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Post by SubGenius »

vorpalhex wrote: post #60
Loughla wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Redditisfun is the only thing that has kept me on there (and I'm still pissed somebody stole my username). I haven't accessed the desktop site in years, because it defaults to the new reddit. It smacks of when /. changed their layout; there was a huge to-do and users lost their mind. I haven't been back there in, what, 9 years? I guess, the moral of this story is, what is the reddit replacement? Because so far I have…

> what is the reddit replacement? I keep looking and monitoring promising replacements but haven't found one yet. I do think the ultimate way forward is going to be some kind of federated system where each "subreddit" is hosted individually and there are aggregators which glue them together, either as a hosted portal or as individual apps. One of the things that has been killing me is that small interesting subreddit…

I'm working on something that may interest you. It's still a work-in-progress, but we have communities (subreddits), publications/articles (medium), galleries, and normal user feeds. Emphasis on anonymity, custom domains, matrix integration, eventual federation.

https://gurlic.com

https://gurlic.com/programming

https://gurlic.com/classics (https://classics.wtf)

https://gurlic.com/art (https://gurlic.art)

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