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Re: /r/startrek/ migrates to lemmy

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Post by sleepybrett »

skilled wrote: post #4

What is/was stopping Reddit from doing this: - Decide that you don't want third-party apps. - Buy out all the big players (Apollo, etc.) and integrate some of their tooling into your own app/core. I understand it would have cost a lot of money, but they could have found a middle-ground where everyone is happy. Instead, they're throwing a stupid tantrum that could end up costing them a lot more than it would have cost…

My question is why can't reddit provide multiple tiers of api access for different audiences.

* Want to scrape all of reddit for your fucking ML nightmare, that will be 1 billion dollars.

* Want to write a reddit 3rd party app without serving reddit's ads? Thats some price point.

* Want to write a reddit 3rd party app and display within some parameters the ads they place into the api feed? Thats cheaper than no ad serving.

* Just a personal api project maybe to help admin your sub or help you in some other way. Free under some kind of reasonable rate limit.

Re: /r/startrek/ migrates to lemmy

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Post by Zetice »

fsflover wrote: post #199
Zetice wrote: post #134

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The mods of Reddit are 100% replaceable, and not comparable to HN moderation, mainly because HN pays dang and he is specifically accountable for maintaining the site. If dang did poorly enough for long enough, he'd be replaced (or they'd shut HN down). Also, there isn't nearly as much special about HN as some people seem to think. It's prone to every one of the same issues Reddit has, the incentives are just aligned…

See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36356957

See what? These aren't arguments, you're linking to the general discussion.

Re: /r/startrek/ migrates to lemmy

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Post by fsflover »

Zetice wrote: post #202
fsflover wrote: post #199

Earlier quoted context omitted.

See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36356957

See what? These aren't arguments, you're linking to the general discussion.

Mods are definitely replaceable, but the new ones will likely not be as enthusiastic and the community will suffer.

Re: /r/startrek/ migrates to lemmy

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Post by HelloMcFly »

incomingpain wrote: post #120
rcxdude wrote: post #116

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Seems odd that you mention an 'unstable/untrustworthy crew' in the same breath as 'high concentration of LGBT people' as reasons you don't like it. I suspect that might be related to your ban, not the fact that you didn't like it in the first place.

>Seems odd that you mention an 'unstable/untrustworthy crew' in the same breath as 'high concentration of LGBT people' as reasons you don't like it. I suspect that might be related to your ban, not the fact that you didn't like it in the first place. I also mentioned cadet and criminal, each of these attributes are separate entities. You are the one associating untrustworthy with LGBT. Which in fact isn't the case. I…

> You are the one associating untrustworthy with LGBT

No, the original commenter made that association implicit by listing the proportional presence of LGBT as a detractor alongside criminals and untrustworthy crewmembers.

Re: /r/startrek/ migrates to lemmy

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Post by krapp »

jrm4 wrote: post #197
krapp wrote: post #160

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Since when? Every website on every server going back to the very first one at CERN has been owned by someone.

Seems like it should be relatively clear that when I say "owned" here, I mean "strongly subject to the whims of a possibly capricious owner." Like, sure, university libraries are "owned" by the school, but one can generally reliably treat them as "public."

Every server is strongly subject to the whims of a possibly capricious owner. One cannot reliably treat any website as "public" because it really isn't. At the end of the day it's one or more boxes plugged into a wall you can't access one which one or more people other than yourself has admin and root privileges. It's someone else's property. Not yours, not "the public's."

Re: /r/startrek/ migrates to lemmy

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Post by mcherm »

a2tech wrote: post #81
hospitalJail wrote: post #61

I decided to try Lemmy(vlemmy specifically) a moment ago. WOW! It was incredibly responsive. What the heck? That was so weird, there was no delay in clicking. I didn't even realize this was a thing until it was so fast that I came here to talk about it. Not going to speculate, just impressed.

Do you have a link to vlemmy? I tried to find it but didn't have much luck

https://vlemmy.net/

Re: /r/startrek/ migrates to lemmy

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Post by rat87 »

Izkata wrote: post #183
liotier wrote: post #175

Does something resembling the "Old Reddit" look & feel exist among the Reddit clones ?

Seems close: https://communities.win/

Isn't that where a lot of the far right td/etc. subreddits migrated to? If so I think people want to avoid the worst of reddit.
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