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Re: Reddit banned me for developing Geddit

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Post by bitcharmer »

EasyMark wrote: post #198
rglullis wrote: post #178

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'll be honest with you: I have been having more trouble finding mods than with the mods themselves. Also, I've always stayed away from the controversial/political subreddits, so I never experienced much of "power tripping" mods. The one thing that I have noticed is that I have been reaching to quite a good number of mods on Reddit to see if they would be interested in migrating their communities, but the absolute ma…

I left all "popular" groups when I posted in a "anti-vaccine" group pointing how how one guy was so far off into the weeds that he might circle around to be being right someday. The mere fact that I posted in there over some ludicrous article/comments got me banned in 9 different "popular" groups, some of which I'd never even been in because I dared to post somewhere "unapproved".

I have similar experience with reddit. First few times I got banned it actually impacted me. I thought I really messed up or did something wrong, even tried to have a conversation with the mod team. Then I realized being banned from most popular subs should be worn like a badge of honour because it just means you're not part of the circle jerk.

Re: Reddit banned me for developing Geddit

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Post by winternett »

maipen wrote: post #18
mubu wrote: post #12

Reddit was my favorite website growing up. I'd discover new interesting subs, read random posts and comments. The frontpage was somewhat interesting too, but now it feels like a bot fest and propaganda machine. I still use Reddit but way less than I used to before, and I no longer use it for fun but just to read niche tech subs. I refuse to use the official mobile app. I've always used Baconreader and then Relay on A…

> but now it feels like a bot fest and propaganda machine. Pretty much sums up every popular social media platform these days. HN is still a good place to learn about whats going on in the tech world and what not because it's simple and filters out alot of "brainrot", although there is an increasing number of comments that soley react at the headline. Reddit has become like meta, you either have an account or your us…

I think the key to keeping a site/app good for as long as possible is to avoid an IPO... The need for dramatic year-over-year profit increase ruins the very fabric of innovation. Reddit also got rid of the very key features to it's initial success like displaying the number of upvotes and downvotes, and a lot of other key things like not collapsing comments, that kept it fair and transparent...

Almost every app now degrades quickly after startup capital fades, maybe we should just all quit social apps the minute they show signs of degrading, because right now most of the content, ads, and people on these social apps are now just as uninteractive, repetitive, mundane, and unrewarding as watching TV.

Re: Reddit banned me for developing Geddit

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Post by anonfordays »

AlexeyBelov wrote: post #240
anonfordays wrote: post #235

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>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.

>You definitely misunderstood everything in the parent comment on purpose.

Are you replying to the wrong comment?

>Don't be obtuse. It's against the guidelines.

"Don't be obtuse" is nowhere to be found in the guidelines, where as your shallow dismissal is. Please don't post shallow dismissals. It's against the guidelines.

Re: Reddit banned me for developing Geddit

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Post by BizarroLand »

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…

Would you pay $15/month for access to reddit on a 3rd party app when you can access it for free on the official app?

I wouldn't, but I left reddit when all of this happened anyway.

Re: Reddit banned me for developing Geddit

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Post by nvarsj »

DaSHacka wrote: post #162
nvarsj wrote: post #89

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It still has good communities I'd say. It depends hugely on the mods. There's nothing else like /r/anime, for example.

> There's nothing else like /r/anime, for example. /a/? MAL? I think anime discussion is one of the few topics readily abundant elsewhere on the web, it's the other niches that are really hard to find.

The community fostered at /r/anime by mods is completely different to the chaos of MAL and /a/.

Re: Reddit banned me for developing Geddit

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Post by jen20 »

rglullis wrote: post #208
jen20 wrote: post #195

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I classify both sponsored content and PR-speak as spam, personally.

Should we start complaining about HN's "spam problem" because of all the "Launch HN" posts? And what about YC companies that have job ads pushed to the top of the frontpage? Hell, I don't even have to be a complete cynic to make the argument that basically any news piece today only gets to be written if it serves the economic interests of its publisher. That is valid from the NYT and Washington Post to an indie game…

> Should we start complaining about HN's "spam problem" because of all the "Launch HN" posts?

No? That doesn't mean they aren't spam, though.

Re: Reddit banned me for developing Geddit

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Post by Refusing23 »

mubu wrote: post #12

Reddit was my favorite website growing up. I'd discover new interesting subs, read random posts and comments. The frontpage was somewhat interesting too, but now it feels like a bot fest and propaganda machine. I still use Reddit but way less than I used to before, and I no longer use it for fun but just to read niche tech subs. I refuse to use the official mobile app. I've always used Baconreader and then Relay on A…

the trick about reddit is just use it for your niche hobbies and such.

dont follow the very large subreddits

i mostly follow it for game specific subreddits, and my hobbies such as woodworking etc

lots of great users in there

Re: Reddit banned me for developing Geddit

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Post by immibis »

Havoc wrote: post #93

Surprised anyone is developing against reddit as a platform at all. Relying on a platform in general is risky...but Reddit?!? It has a single redeeming feature - network effects on good user conent. That's it...literally everything else about it is a dumpsterfire, including how they treat devs.

Reddit barely generates good user content any more. They killed the golden goose, and their egg business is inevitably collapsing.

Re: Reddit banned me for developing Geddit

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Post by immibis »

nunez wrote: post #138

As much as I'd like to perma-ban Reddit from my life, Reddit is, unfortunately, still the best way of getting insights into stuff to do in new cities or quick answers about how to do things.

I know the Berlin subreddit, like a lot of location-based subreddits, is now a far right cesspit. Is it not true for the cities you've been to?

Re: Reddit banned me for developing Geddit

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Post by immibis »

TeMPOraL wrote: post #51
silisili wrote: post #30

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Because the advertising model is very weak on Reddit, it's just a sponsored post with no differentiation most people skip past. No video or image to catch interest. Plus, the users are self segregated, what a dream. Imagine you wanted to sell drop shipped backpacks. All you'd need to do is create and prime, or buy, a dozen or so accounts, and start recommending your own brand subtly in every recommendation thread in…

> People trust Reddit because they assume they're other real users. Many advertisers already know and take advantage of this. It's nearly impossible at this point to know who or what is authentic. That's what advertisers would like their customers to believe. The truth is closer to: advertisers are lazy, Reddit users aren't complete idiots, subreddits are moderated, and spammers are (rightfully) despised. Effective s…

Many subreddits are moderated by advertisers, who of course don't tell you they represent advertisers.
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