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Reddit now feels like newsgroups after they were infested with spam. Little good content , hidden in corners under piles of spam. Instead of spam, they have politics though. It looks like a model on the verge of collapse.
Niche subreddits are informative and useful. You just have to unsubscribe from all the default reddits and find the niche stuff that interests you. Then your reddit front page becomes one of the most useful media pages on the internet.
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Agreed — don’t use the default subreddits. They’re cancer. But I’ve had a great time at the Formula1 subreddit and people are crazy at MechanicalKeyboards. I’m sure you’ll love a knitting group if you enjoy that. Go by your specific interests and really just say no to the generic or huge ones like funny, pics, askreddit etc.
The problem is that subreddit is very prone to heterogeneous opinions and groupthink, even among niche subreddits, mostly around what's appealing to mid-20 year old white US males. The discussion is often very shallow, mostly aimed at "advanced beginners" because that's what appeals to the widest audience and anything else doesn't get traction, unlike in a traditional forum. This is very obvious if you're into a tech…
That's interesting, can you think of other examples besides climbing or mountaineering?
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I think the legal situation is more complicated than you’re suggesting. It’s one thing if you’re scraping without logging in, which is possible on Reddit but of course limits you to read-only access. If you want to participate in discussions, on the other hand, you need an account, which means you’re agreeing to a EULA, which means unauthorized clients can potentially be sued over either breach of contract or contrac…
I believe that whatever the user wants to do on their own device is allowed; this is why adblock is legal, regardless of what a website's EULA says, for example. If I had a local software client that automated posting of content to Reddit, it would seem difficult to detect and stop. If detected, would Reddit ban my user account? Doesn't seem like the kind of relationship I would want with my power users. Why not out-…
It’s been one less since their app started spamming my phone with notifications a few months ago. I suspect those kinds of engagement hooks are part of the reason they have been pushing the app so hard, but I got so tired of it that I uninstalled it from my phone. Fortunately they’ve also made the mobile/web experience so horrible that I’m not even tempted to wade back in. I had been a daily user for more than 10 yea…
plus I suspect they can gather more info on people with an app than with a mobile browser
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I believe that whatever the user wants to do on their own device is allowed; this is why adblock is legal, regardless of what a website's EULA says, for example. If I had a local software client that automated posting of content to Reddit, it would seem difficult to detect and stop. If detected, would Reddit ban my user account? Doesn't seem like the kind of relationship I would want with my power users. Why not out-…
There is a huge difference between adblock and a scraper. The scraper is automated browsing and data harvesting. This can be quantified and creates extra load. Adblock works with local data after the server did it's part and sent all data to the device. It doesn't create additional load on the server.
Shipping post, link, and comment data somewhere globally accessible using a browser extension while logged in sidesteps Reddit’s walled garden efforts without any load beyond that which they would’ve expended serving typical user requests. Maybe IPFS as a target?
I wonder if Reddit is hitting the same issue as Twitter did with regards to third-party apps. Like Twitter, Reddit has a robust API that allows for really full-featured apps to fetch/post content, which is great as a user, but horrible for monetization. I wouldn't be surprised if at some point third party Reddit clients end up getting neutered much like Twitter apps have become. Given that the mobile site is turning…
> which is great as a user, but horrible for monetization That's Reddit's fault, though. They don't include ads when a user uses the API.
On a side note, really hope reddit's engineering team doesn't kill off their 'old.reddit.com' domain though. That's probably the only thing keeping me from dumping reddit altogether (aside from their API-powered custom reddit apps made by indie devs for Android).
The problem is that the medium is the message, and while you might be using old.reddit.com, most of the other people posting are using the new site. That has lowered the quality of discourse. I first noticed this when people on hobby reddits started asking FAQs that had already been answered in the sidebar – the new design now hid the sidebar from users. So, subreddits where newbies typically got answers before they…
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This is how I'm afraid free speech dies. The internet becomes privatized, and therefore - free from those pesky free speech laws.
Really? Because there is site moderation on hacker news too. I am sure if you breach them enough, you will find yourself unwelcome. QAnon is free to start their own website and say whatever loony shit they want.
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old interface was just way more information dense. That's my main complaint with new UI. Even with "compact" mode on the new UI, it's not as dense as the old one.
The difference in information density really isn't that large. Here's a comparison of the current top posts (and not even using the compact view): https://imgur.com/a/WsI3pBj
- Height of post list with 8 posts, redesign: 855 px
- Height of post list with 8 posts, old: 691 px
- Height of thread with 7.5 comments, redesign: 1008 px
- Height of thread with 11 posts, old: 1054 px
That's ~24% more space taken in the post list, and 40% (!) more space taken for the comment thread.