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Re: Reddit banned me for developing Geddit

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Post by ratlrrr »

badsectoracula wrote: post #141
subsection1h wrote: post #120

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> despite the romantization, i somehow doubt that Usenet was all roses before the "Eternal September" Usenet was the best discussion platform I've ever used. People who posted questions to comp.lang.c without first reading K&R were commonly killfiled. People who posted questions to the comp.infosystems.www.authoring newsgroups without first reading relevant W3C specs were commonly killfiled. It was awesome. Can anyon…

> It was awesome. TBH this doesn't sound awesome, it sounds exactly the hotbed that spawns community drama, passive aggressive behavior and other human stuff you still see to this day :-P.

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Re: Reddit banned me for developing Geddit

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Post by ratlrrr »

Grimburger wrote: post #43
Etheryte wrote: post #34

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I feel like this is another example of a problem that could be easily solved if we had integrated, anonymous and frictionless payments on the web. For example, imagine a Reddit clone, but every comment you want to post costs one cent. For a regular user it takes a while to build up even a hundred comments, meanwhile for a spammer, this could quickly become costly. The hurdle of course is that no one wants to put thei…

> every comment you want to post costs one cent People were saying this about email 20+ years ago. Not sure if it's the case here but there's a tendency for those in tech to think people problems can be solved with code. Many of the bad things on the internet are a layer 8 issue and collective human behaviour isn't an easy problem to solve.

> Many of the bad things on the internet are a layer 8 issue and collective human behaviour isn't an easy problem to solve.

Sure, clever analogy. The internet barely facilitates many best practices for congregating on a communal basis, barring a user's self-sovereign strive to cultivate, recognize and then compensate for its failings with whatever sort of information, interactions and dealings one happens to seek.

20+ years ago, i just settled for lurking whatever boards popped out of the ether and playing EverQuest, RuneScape and Habbo Hotel, to soak in its novelty. Such persistent asymmetricity should never be lost.

Re: Reddit banned me for developing Geddit

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Post by immibis »

tumsfestival wrote: post #189
mrinfinitiesx wrote: post #181

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Just choose https://lemmy.world and not care then. There's other instances https://join-lemmy.org/instances So if one community like say, https://lemmy.world/c/linux So .. /c/linux has mods and they're questionable you can go find a server/setup that you might think has better mods or a better mission behind them and their /c/linux will be moderated different from lemmy.world's /c/linux but they will all still have t…

lol Most people on Lemmy are leftist and left-biased, in fact there're some pretty big and problematic tankie instances, right-wingers are a rarity and they're ostracized. If anything, people moving to Lemmy are sick of all the neoliberal/right-wing bullshit.

There are instances on the Fediverse ranging from actual far-left tankies to actual far-right Nazis. Many of them are banned from interacting with the really big general-purpose instances, but they still exist. If you insist on only touching instances that aren't banned from general-purpose instances, that's on you, and that's not demanding the right to speak, that's demanding the right for others to listen to you.

Re: Reddit banned me for developing Geddit

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Post by immibis »

anonfordays wrote: post #227
mrinfinitiesx wrote: post #36

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Check out lemmy. Pick an instance: can start with https://lemmy.world or host your own. It's where everybody flocked to. It's decent, has decent content, decent users. If you don't like the mods/censorship you can host your own or go choose a new instance. content will be the same, mods will be different and what they mod will be different

Lemmy is an even worse leftist echo chamber that suffers from the same problems as reddit.

Then why are you looking at "leftist echo chamber" Lemmies? Go and find a rightist echo chamber Lemmy if that's what you're looking for. This is like going to /r/socialism and complaining Reddit is leftist.

There's also Kbin, which for all practical purposes is Lemmy, and interoperates with Lemmy, but is developed by different people.

Re: Reddit banned me for developing Geddit

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Post by anonfordays »

immibis wrote: post #234
anonfordays wrote: post #227

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Lemmy is an even worse leftist echo chamber that suffers from the same problems as reddit.

Then why are you looking at "leftist echo chamber" Lemmies? Go and find a rightist echo chamber Lemmy if that's what you're looking for. This is like going to /r/socialism and complaining Reddit is leftist. There's also Kbin, which for all practical purposes is Lemmy, and interoperates with Lemmy, but is developed by different people.

>Then why are you looking at "leftist echo chamber" Lemmies?

I'm not? Are you replying to the wrong comment?

>Go and find a rightist echo chamber Lemmy if that's what you're looking for.

I don't want that, nor am I looking for one.

>This is like going to /r/socialism and complaining Reddit is leftist.

This doesn't make any sense. Again, are you replying to the wrong person?

>There's also Kbin, which for all practical purposes is Lemmy, and interoperates with Lemmy, but is developed by different people.

Never heard of it.

Re: Reddit banned me for developing Geddit

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Post by m0llusk »

Traubenfuchs wrote: post #107

I still don‘t understand why apps like apollo did not add a balance account used to pay the necessary API requests. Combined with heavy caching this should have been easily possible and financially viable. Someone could have even built a cache gateway backend for multiple 3rd party apps…

The prices asked were way too high. Several people tried to make this work but the cost for the most basic usage would be huge. They basically slammed the door shut.

Re: Reddit banned me for developing Geddit

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Post by ratlrrr »

immibis wrote: post #180
subsection1h wrote: post #120

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> despite the romantization, i somehow doubt that Usenet was all roses before the "Eternal September" Usenet was the best discussion platform I've ever used. People who posted questions to comp.lang.c without first reading K&R were commonly killfiled. People who posted questions to the comp.infosystems.www.authoring newsgroups without first reading relevant W3C specs were commonly killfiled. It was awesome. Can anyon…

So, in other words, people were banned about as aggressively as they are on Reddit, by a cabal about as small as on Reddit, but they didn't even know they were banned and this is somehow considered a positive thing.

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Re: Reddit banned me for developing Geddit

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Post by asdf6969 »

Reddit bans users for posting pretty much anything and then puts 0 barriers in place to stop them from making new accounts. Reddit recently removed the option to skip entering an email, but they still do nothing to verify the email address of new accounts. I make a new account every time I want to post and use a new as@df.xyz variant each time. Maybe 1/5 of my comments get through the filter though. I get responses from real users so I know it’s true

Re: Reddit banned me for developing Geddit

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Post by AlexeyBelov »

anonfordays wrote: post #235
immibis wrote: post #234

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Then why are you looking at "leftist echo chamber" Lemmies? Go and find a rightist echo chamber Lemmy if that's what you're looking for. This is like going to /r/socialism and complaining Reddit is leftist. There's also Kbin, which for all practical purposes is Lemmy, and interoperates with Lemmy, but is developed by different people.

>Then why are you looking at "leftist echo chamber" Lemmies? I'm not? Are you replying to the wrong comment? >Go and find a rightist echo chamber Lemmy if that's what you're looking for. I don't want that, nor am I looking for one. >This is like going to /r/socialism and complaining Reddit is leftist. This doesn't make any sense. Again, are you replying to the wrong person? >There's also Kbin, which for all practical…

You definitely misunderstood everything in the parent comment on purpose. Don't be obtuse. It's against the guidelines.
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