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Re: Reddit’s blackout protest is set to continue indefinitely

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Post by fny »

danudey wrote: post #98
rblatz wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Also most people don’t really care about the API/3rd party app thing. It doesn’t impact them and it looks from the outside like a bunch of dorks with no lives getting worked up over nothing. I’ve been on Reddit since the digg migration and I’ve never felt the need for an app, old.reddit.com and Adblock works perfectly fine on the phone. Better than Reddit’s mobile site.

It doesn't affect them directly , but the moderation tools a lot of subreddits need are built into third-party apps because Reddit refuses to build mod tools itself, and when those stop working then the job of moderating large and active subreddits will become vastly more cumbersome and frustrating, and far less efficient. Maybe this issue only affects 0.1% of users, but those 0.1% of users do a lot for the site that…

Are these moderation tools any better on other platforms?

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Post by stiltzkin »

iameli wrote: post #19

The biggest Reddit communities are in open rebellion. Twitter is, charitably, a mess. Twitch started taking a full 50% of the revenue of their top creators, who are furious. What's going on? What's the bigger trend that's causing all these platforms to go so user-hostile?

Twitter is still working fine, even community notes are a huge welcome.

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Post by libraryatnight »

PKop wrote: post #133
sempron64 wrote: post #120

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Who pays the moderators of all the major subreddits?

The mod workload on fediverse is in addition to, and magnifies, the operational cost of running the servers. Put aside moderation then, I don't see how decentralized independent servers scale if "free", whereas centralized cos has VC and ad money to achieve this

Communities with sufficient interest in existing with any control over their future and content may need to fund themselves via donation.

Also, in the 90s and early 00s, game servers cost money for many online FPS games - people hosted long running communities. Sometimes surviving via donation, sometimes just the benevolence of a person into the hobby with money. Community finds a way.

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Post by elxr »

TechBro8615 wrote: post #169
chongli wrote: post #37

I was really skeptical of lemmy [1] when I first heard about it during the blackout. I joined yesterday and it completely changed my mind. Yes, it is going to face some growing pains (see the total user growth in the past few days) [2] in the coming weeks and months but it really has the potential to replace Reddit with a federated system of communities. One that won't be damaged by investors or executives attempting…

Lemmy has the same discoverability and usability problems as Mastodon. Especially for non-technical users, there's too much friction required to find their communities and aggregate them into a single usable feed with a nice client. And that's assuming they can even conceptualize what the fediverse is. I'm a technical user, and I closed join-lemmy.org after ten seconds because it was too many clicks to get to an inte…

> there's too much friction required to find their communities and aggregate them into a single usable feed with a nice client.

This is what old reddit did so well. You just open reddit.com and you see a dense wall of stories, along with vote count, number of comments on each story, and which subreddit that particular story came from.

All in ZERO clicks. No images or graphics at all, aside from little thumbnails you can easily ignore. Minimal, dense, and clutter-free.

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Post by _8j50 »

chongli wrote: post #37

I was really skeptical of lemmy [1] when I first heard about it during the blackout. I joined yesterday and it completely changed my mind. Yes, it is going to face some growing pains (see the total user growth in the past few days) [2] in the coming weeks and months but it really has the potential to replace Reddit with a federated system of communities. One that won't be damaged by investors or executives attempting…

Lemmy is a good idea with a terrible name and a misunderstanding of the experience users look for, much like mastodon. For example, I will never join any of these services but I will browse r/All, many lurkers drive traffic and reddit would be almost nothing without r/All which I can't figure out if lemmy has.

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Post by willmeyers »

baby wrote: post #35

I said it before, and I’ll say it again. This is a huge opportunity for Facebook. They sort of tried to do Reddit in the past and ended up with shitty Facebook groups. If I were them, I would rush to add some reddit features to Facebook group (reddit-like threads, upvotes/downvotes) or try to launch something new that’s more like reddit on top of the facebook/insta social graph. Just call it “Groups”

Meta's already launched channels for Whatsapp and planning on doing a similar rollout for Insta. Definitely going to shake things up

https://techcrunch.com/2023/06/15/instagram-is-rolling-out-i...

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Post by metabagel »

iaw wrote: post #91
Exuma wrote: post #56

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This is a very stupid question - but can someone explain what the "interest rates" and "no more free money" replies mean? Is it because reddit isn't profitable so relies on constant money supply from investors? Or is it something else

I'll try to be quick and simple: - The US government sets a base interest rate it will pay if you buy bonds from them - Bonds are basically loans - People with money want that money to make money so they buy bonds and invest in stocks/companies - When bonds aren't giving any money rich people put more into companies - When bonds are giving money rich people shift money into bonds, less money for companies This is a g…

Actually, the Fed sets the Federal Funds Rate, which is the rate at which commercial banks borrow and lend their extra reserves to one another overnight. Increasing the Federal Funds Rate increases borrowing costs across the board, which subsequently will tend to decrease the money supply.

I believe that U.S. bonds are priced at the market.

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Post by aniforprez »

blendergeek wrote: post #109
rblatz wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Also most people don’t really care about the API/3rd party app thing. It doesn’t impact them and it looks from the outside like a bunch of dorks with no lives getting worked up over nothing. I’ve been on Reddit since the digg migration and I’ve never felt the need for an app, old.reddit.com and Adblock works perfectly fine on the phone. Better than Reddit’s mobile site.

> old.reddit.com and Adblock works perfectly fine on the phone. Better than Reddit’s mobile site. What if I told you that Reddit is going to do away with 'old.reddit.com' next?

In spez's AMA, he said "old reddit is not going anywhere"

Years ago, when announcing the new website, he said "the API is not going anywhere"

old reddit is 100% on the chopping block

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Post by moffkalast »

dawnerd wrote: post #126
gman83 wrote: post #117

Earlier quoted context omitted.

On the communities page of your instance, select "All" instead of "Local" to search for communities on all servers, for example: https://lemmy.world/communities/listing_type/All/page/1

If anyone is wondering it’s still not quite perfect as some instances have inadvertently blocked federation while they deal with growth. It should work itself out once the dust settles

> have inadvertently blocked federation

I assume the Enterprise is on its way to resolve the issue diplomatically

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Post by starik36 »

pgrote wrote: post #34

When do replacement subreddits start forming? /r/picsnew or something.

I quit /r/pics long time ago because 90% of the images were political. Instead there is /r/nocontextpics/ (which is also currently in restricted mode) which is what /r/pics used to be a long time ago.
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