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Listen to Steve Huffman tell the story of how Reddit got started

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Re: Listen to Steve Huffman tell the story of how Reddit got started

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Post by OnlyMortal »

inkywatcher wrote: post #21
grogenaut wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Slack is just irc, Dropbox just nfs, Google just grep, Craigslist just newspaper classifieds, amazon just Walmart, Netflix just charter, hacker news just coffee shops and bars, and on and on, what's your point

When you put it like that, I really prefer some of the precursors.

Reddit is just Usenet.

Re: Listen to Steve Huffman tell the story of how Reddit got started

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Post by LegitShady »

werid wrote: post #5

this is good timing, as we're witnessing in real time how reddit is ending right now :)

How is reddit ending? In general it seems they waited for enough critical mass before instituting all the content policies that would kill smaller sites.

And while digg's implosion had reddit as an alternative, in 2023 who is the alternative to reddit?

Re: Listen to Steve Huffman tell the story of how Reddit got started

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Post by faeriechangling »

earthscienceman wrote: post #7

This is a nice time to remind everyone that Aaron Swartz died while fighting for a freer internet and a freer world. He is, by Paul Graham, considered a founder of reddit but is rarely mentioned in these stories. Instead of trying to go for broke and grind till he could cash out, Aaron put his skin in the game for what the internet should become. Which gets more relevant everyday that the internet megacorps consolida…

I've felt for a decade now, even though the two weren't directly linked, that the death of Aaron Schwartz was the symbolic death of Reddit's soul. Nowadays the website is a dark pattern hellscape that forces app downloads for "age verification" and just because you scrolled through too many comments.

Schwartz is dead and Ohanian is a multi-millionaire married to an olympian, so I guess that tells you about what society values. At least we can already see the beginning of the end of the exploitative paywalled journals and people like Alexandra Elbakyan picking up where Schwartz left off.

Re: Listen to Steve Huffman tell the story of how Reddit got started

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Post by voytec »

celtoid wrote: post #25

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I made this choice later, when Tencent started ruling Reddit. People immediately started throwing Tiananmen Square posts which quickly were getting to front and then being shadowbanned. As I was born in communist Poland, I have no love (to say politely) for communist governments.

I made a good choice, as Reddit quickly made a turn from being a site hosting thematic forums into a social media website full of garbage.

Before that, some smaller subreddits were valuable and not infested by marketers nor moderated by corporations. But it quickly changed and now, for me, Reddit is as unbearable as Facebook.

Re: Listen to Steve Huffman tell the story of how Reddit got started

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Post by qwertox »

I ask myself on a weekly basis when old.reddit.com will disappear. And there is nothing more cruel than the new Reddit, UI-wise. Even Twitter's "threading" of conversations appears to make more sense, even though I have still not figured out how it works.

Re: Listen to Steve Huffman tell the story of how Reddit got started

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Post by exsf0859 »

turzmo wrote: post #28
werid wrote: post #5

this is good timing, as we're witnessing in real time how reddit is ending right now :)

How is that?

Reddit recently announced changes to their APIs pricing and features that will probably lead to the abandonment of most third-party Reddit clients. Users of those clients are upset.

https://www.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/12ram0f/had_a_fe...

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