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Re: Reddit banned me for developing Geddit

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Post by badsectoracula »

hi-v-rocknroll wrote: post #23
maipen wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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…

Well, reddit became worse than that ~10 years ago because of the inconsistent, absurd, immature unreasonableness of a sizable fraction of mods who added suck and subtracted cool from the world. Maybe this is a pattern common to most all group-oriented social media platforms where community mods skew towards being drama-oriented, elitist, and/or crazy because no one else wants the job and so, like policing, it attract…

> Maybe this is a pattern common to most all group-oriented social media

Channel operator drama was a major thing with IRC back when it was popular (sometimes ending to like channel splits or even whole netsplits if the people involved were related to the server operators, bot/flood wars, etc), so yeah, there isn't anything specific to Reddit about it. I wasn't part of it but i am pretty sure you'd see the same patterns in Usenet back when that was popular (and despite the romantization, i somehow doubt that Usenet was all roses before the "Eternal September").

Re: Reddit banned me for developing Geddit

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Post by grumple »

Giorgi wrote: post #21

I moved on reddit back in Digg exodus days. Been there more than 15 years. Got banned recently mentioning that some Palestinians are terrorists. Mods cursed at me in the PM when I reported them to admins, Admin permanently banned my account. It's just a radical left echo-chamber now, which sucks because there are lot's of interesting niche sub forums. I wish someone would actually invest in competing product, with le…

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Re: Reddit banned me for developing Geddit

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Post by creesch »

Iulioh wrote: post #7

Another point i would like to discuss, if someone has more knowledge than me: How the fuck was reddit not profitable? The founder said it but i still don't belive it. Was all the money spent in bullshit features no one still uses or it was before that?

Because for the past few years they have never been interested in actually being profitable in a sustainable way. They only worked towards “potential” profitability based on their huge user base as a signal towards potential investors.

Before all this, before an IPO was considered an option, they actually did try to make the platform sustainable for a while. I can't remember the details, but buying gold (and getting some perks) you supported reddit. They actively promoted this and even had a counter that showcased how much you contributed to server costs and all that. This is also the only time I remember that reddit reported numbers in the black.

They could easily have built further on this and increased income sustainably and slowly growing over time. But clearly at some point it was decided that this approach was not enough and that they needed more rapid growth and work towards an IPO. Which is the point where they massively scaled up their staff, started attracting investments and started working on the redesigned reddit. Which truly marked the beginning of the end.

Not to say that things were perfect before that, far from it, the platform had enough issues back then as well. But there was a very distinct and clear point where things still could have turned around and reddit would be a radically different platform from what it is today.

Re: Reddit banned me for developing Geddit

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Post by [deleted] »

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…

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Re: Reddit banned me for developing Geddit

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Post by unsupp0rted »

satvikpendem wrote: post #35
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…

It's not just the app, the content itself has regressed. Where previously many subs actually had content related to their name, now it's 90% American political content. Evert r/pics is not immune. It's not just the posts, the comments too have political stances in them too, for many posts even unrelated to politics. It's tiring to read.

American politics has eaten everything, even my beloved Simpsons Shitposting sub. And my Star Trek Memes sub.

When you comment to complain, you get "Star Trek has always been political", "The Simpsons has always been political".

Yeah... but Star Trek memes hasn't always been. /r/SimpsonsShitposting used to be funny, not just sarcastic eye-rolls about [current-republican-bogey-man/woman strawman].

Re: Reddit banned me for developing Geddit

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Post by bambax »

> Then I’ve discovered that you could get the whole page in JSON format by adding .json to the end of the URL. That was my big aha moment.

This is actually still working! Trying on one of the top posts right now, if you change

https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/1ezq3po/asked_for_my...

to

https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/1ezq3po/asked_for_my...

you get all comments as json, with no need for authentication. So it's probably trivial to develop a client that would use this and have a nice ui and bypass any and all ads. Interesting.

Re: Reddit banned me for developing Geddit

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Post by concordDance »

bambax wrote: post #69

> Then I’ve discovered that you could get the whole page in JSON format by adding .json to the end of the URL. That was my big aha moment. This is actually still working! Trying on one of the top posts right now, if you change https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/1ezq3po/asked_for_my... to https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/1ezq3po/asked_for_my... you get all comments as json, with no need for authentication.…

And now this is commented it will be changed. :(
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