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Post by Pigo »

officeplant wrote: post #162
Pigo wrote: post #102

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The board that shall not be named was very interesting back in the day. There was always garbage, but even a simple battle toads thread could be a lot of fun to follow. I never knew if the interesting people found a new home, or disbanded, but I sure miss when fun stuff happened there.

lainchan used to be a decent way to avoid the big chans once they got vile, but still find decent people outside of meatspace. A well curated set of subreddits used to be find, but I'm feeling less and less motivated to continue on with keeping it organized. Private discord servers have taken over as the default hangout space for most of my friend groups with telegram and small forums starting to take root now as wel…

That's kind of what I figured was happening, but I guess I'm getting too old to keep up with where the action is at on discord. I get why keeping it private has become so popular, but I struggle to find the flavor there. Reddit seems to have successfully killed everything that was fun.

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Post by Scoundreller »

slothtrop wrote: post #219
jackcosgrove wrote: post #113

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Nothing lasts forever. Reddit is 14 years old. They've had a good run. I think there is a general trend away from user-generated content as a business model, because that content can be a bit salty. Reddit might just be cashing out because the wave they rode has already crested.

What comes next? Don't say Discord.

HN subgroups ;)

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Post by alunchbox »

jermaustin1 wrote: post #178
xemoka wrote: post #171

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Sure, if your only goal is dollars and cents. People should have more, and better, goals than /just/ money. This obsession with only turning a buck is why we can’t have nice things that last.

Let me rephrase it then, if my company made $0 profit, I would be unable to afford my mortgage/bills/insurance, and would have to get a job, taking me away from my company.

That's not entirely true? I mean unless you're not paying yourself then absolutely I agree with you. But we're making it sound like these companies "reddit" back in the day wasn't turning a profit to pay for the mortgage/bills/insurance or hosting. They were it just wasn't to the extent were investors and the owners could buy private jets and mansions. Not sure if that's a bad thing or a good thing but I do believe they were living well off.

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Post by throw0101a »

Chirael wrote: post #170
Cephalopterus wrote: post #124

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> because that content can be a bit salty. AKA the fate of every site that is a collection of usergenerated content with an ad based business model. If you want to get serious about monetization then you need to actively curtail any content that is not "advertiser friendly" which in most cases means alienating your core content generators, case in point, Tumblr.

YouTube is starting to do this as well. For example they've made it so that accounts with less than 1000 subscribers can't do live streams any more. Not coincidentally, 1000 subscribers is the threshold for monetization (i.e., when ads start getting shown on all the account's videos). A lot of smaller channels are upset about it, since live streams were one of the ways they were /getting/ to 1000 subscribers in the f…

I know of a few gaming channels that tend to stream on Twitch and then post on YT later (often in 30 minute segments for easier consumption).

If someone is using (e.g.) OBS Studio to stitch together a screencap and a facecam, it's easy to have to save to a file for later use.

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Post by lghh »

kissickas wrote: post #130
lghh wrote: post #98

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I wonder if there is a market for a Reddit alternative that is somehow treads the line between being a cesspool like that one site that tried to replace Reddit when they banned a lot of fascist stuff was and that other site that infantilized everyone. Is there a middle ground? I feel like treading it would be useful.

The first one you're referencing is voat.co. I can't remember the name of the second, but I do remember cute-looking dinosaurs all over the place and I think that's the one you're talking about. Side note - I thought Victoria Taylor (/u/chooter) left for that competitor, but it appears that she was at WeWork and now at LinkedIn (as of August - just in time!)

Yep, voat is the one. It was... not ideal.

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Post by lghh »

CM30 wrote: post #211
lghh wrote: post #98

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I wonder if there is a market for a Reddit alternative that is somehow treads the line between being a cesspool like that one site that tried to replace Reddit when they banned a lot of fascist stuff was and that other site that infantilized everyone. Is there a middle ground? I feel like treading it would be useful.

There is a market for this, and I believe at some point a site like this will probably replace Reddit... but it can't be started on that basis. It'll have to be set up independently of Reddit, grow organically with its own community, then get successful enough that people move over when there's already an established userbase. That's how communities get big without becoming cesspools or going over the top on the mode…

I think if anything, Discord will get a lot of what Reddit had in certain communities. Particularly anything around hobbies. It's a shame because things in discord get lost the moment after they happen, but I can find years old reddit posts about something I'm newly interested in.

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Post by Angostura »

vb6sp6 wrote: post #175
criddell wrote: post #165

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Is Reddit social media? Are usenet newsgroups and IRC channels social media?

Yes. And HN is social media too.

I think there's a distinction between systems where users follow people and systems where they follow topics, I think of the former as social media, not the latter.

Twitter, Instagram - social media. Reddit, Stack Overflow, HN - Not social media.

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Post by devmunchies »

dougmwne wrote: post #69

I deleted my Reddit account recently in an effort to curb social media. I've still been checking r/all and some favorite subreddits. Thank you Reddit for further breaking the site and making it easier to ween myself off of. Thank you HN for the addiction block contols on the account screen.

i haven't used reddit for a couple years now. I remember r/all being the worst. I just checked it now to verify. Too... soft? feminine? Not to mention the small drip of political propaganda.

Maybe i outgrew the typical user demographic, but i think its just corny (I'm talking about r/all).

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