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Re: Reddit is currently down

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Post by kolbe »

slg wrote: post #78
next_xibalba wrote: post #50

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Has Twitter’s usage declined? I’ve seen a lot of opinions like this but they seem to be motivated reasoning and/or summarization of the views of a small echo chamber, but not based on actual data. I would guess most users of social media (and products/services for that matter) are not too concerned with antics of the owners.

Twitter is a worse experience for me today than it was before Musk purchased the company. I don't need to even be aware of his antics for that to be true. Killing Tweetbot is the biggest issue for me. The official iOS app is awful so now I never check Twitter from my phone. Plus my timeline isn't as interesting because lots of people I follow simply stopped posting. Maybe they left due to Musk's antics, but it makes…

Is there a single major service from a Silicon Valley internet company that doesn't get worse by the year? They all loss lead for years and years, then try to diminish the experience for profit in late stages.

Re: Reddit is currently down

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Post by SketchySeaBeast »

bombcar wrote: post #70
SketchySeaBeast wrote: post #38

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Is there a service that matches my curated list of subjects as well as Reddit does?

Reddit successfully killed most if not all web forums, and reigns supreme over that. Nothing even comes close; but some twitter/discord groups might be the beginning of the end.

I don't understand either of those. With twitter there's no room for thought or nuance. It's just a basic "hot take" machine and that's it. Sure, Reddit is full of those, but there's some depth there too at times. I understand discord even less. When I look at it it seems like just a giant chat log. I can't easily find new insights from overnight without rewinding the whole log and parsing it all. I don't know how to pick and choose topics that interest me, it's a fire-hose of noise. I assume one can do it, but I can't figure it out.

Re: Reddit is currently down

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Post by nirav72 »

iLoveOncall wrote: post #59
22289d wrote: post #35

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It has actually gotten a lot better. Incremental progress for a few years and we're in a fairly good place. This is highly unusual.

> It has actually gotten a lot better. Come on, almost every evening you get error pages. Yes they don't last more than a few refreshes, but it's simply ridiculous for a site as prominent as Reddit.

I’ve had much better experience after I switched back to the classic reddit page. Still occasionally has issues. But not nearly as bad as the default page. Maybe once every couple of weeks, I’ll get the reddit is broken page for a minute or two.

Re: Reddit is currently down

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Post by q7xvh97o2pDhNrh »

22289d wrote: post #79
iLoveOncall wrote: post #59

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> It has actually gotten a lot better. Come on, almost every evening you get error pages. Yes they don't last more than a few refreshes, but it's simply ridiculous for a site as prominent as Reddit.

> almost every evening you get error pages The only thing I do more than Reddit is sleep - and I do not get error pages everyday. A few years ago, yes. Now they are pretty rare. Maybe once a week.

> The only thing I do more than Reddit is sleep

No offense, but... you okay? How do you take care of your brain while doing something like that?

It's hard for me to tear myself away fully from social media (behold this comment), but every time I do, I notice how my brain seems to just... work better.

Re: Reddit is currently down

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Post by hot_gril »

sharlos201068 wrote: post #36
CoolGuySteve wrote: post #22

I always like when people say Twitter's lower reliability will drive people off the site. Reddit's been awful for more than a decade and people still use it.

Reddit's reliability used to be much much worse than its early days. These days it's not perfect but far from awful.

It's still worse than Twitter's.

Re: Reddit is currently down

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Post by gonzo41 »

jlmorton wrote: post #67
paulpauper wrote: post #41

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It's tempting to want to blame the admins or political bias...the main problem are the mods for individual subs. Too much domain and keyword filtering, arbitrary removals of content, algorithmic removals/filtering, etc. The whole point of moderating is to actually moderate, not remove stuff automatically all the time. Even content that gets up-voted and users like, will not uncommonly be removed for no reason. If the…

One of the most interesting things about Reddit is how they’ve managed to grow Reddit, Inc to a few thousand employees, but everyone still refers to the company as “the admins,” as if it’s a rag tag community group, not a Twitter-sized company.

Well every subreddit is run by a small group of despots. So I would expect that's who they are talking about in a sense.

Re: Reddit is currently down

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Post by dobs_bob »

myspy wrote: post #31
CoolGuySteve wrote: post #22

I always like when people say Twitter's lower reliability will drive people off the site. Reddit's been awful for more than a decade and people still use it.

Canceling third party clients and the antics, as well as the bad management of Musk is what people drives away from Twitter not the reliability.

Not to mention Musk just being a ghoul in general. Mocking the disabled is something I can't let go.

Re: Reddit is currently down

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Post by hot_gril »

rvz wrote: post #28
CoolGuySteve wrote: post #22

I always like when people say Twitter's lower reliability will drive people off the site. Reddit's been awful for more than a decade and people still use it.

It is actually hilarious. People would rather wait for Facebook, Instagram, Reddit, Twitter, etc to get back online than to sign up to another alternative social network. It means that the network effect is still present on the site such that it is not worth it for existing users to migrate and start from zero again to a lesser known platform with low discoverability or little to no activity. Especially one with a si…

Mastodon has two big problems. It's not just the network effect but also educating the users on how to use a federated social network. It's easy with a technical background to overestimate how easily people will understand that, let alone care about it.

Here's mainstream news trying to get people onto Mastodon, and even this is in the "tech" section: https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/mastodon-social-media-twitter-r...

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