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Re: Reddit banned me for developing Geddit

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Post by rglullis »

Etheryte wrote: post #34
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…

I feel like this is another example of a problem that could be easily solved if we had integrated, anonymous and frictionless payments on the web. For example, imagine a Reddit clone, but every comment you want to post costs one cent. For a regular user it takes a while to build up even a hundred comments, meanwhile for a spammer, this could quickly become costly. The hurdle of course is that no one wants to put thei…

No need to charge per message. Just make every user pay an annual membership fee for entrance. This is how https://communick.com works. I have a small userbase, but zero issues with spam and abuse.

Re: Reddit banned me for developing Geddit

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Post by bambax »

concordDance wrote: post #70
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. :(

Maybe not. The incident described by the OP happened in Aug. 2023; it has worked since then, despite Reddit being very much aware of it. It's possible there is something in Reddit's architecture that would make it very costly to change...

Re: Reddit banned me for developing Geddit

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Post by Recursing »

azalemeth wrote: post #6

Geddit still works and it's a great app (it can read posts labelled nsfw without an account). The other working one I know of is RedReader, which Reddit have left unbroken due to its advanced accessibility features for disabled readers (but it cannot access nsfw things -- you get a message saying to use the website). My shared IP has been network blocked by Reddit and anonymous browsing is disabled. I also see about…

Why don't you just use old.reddit.com ? Works great for me.

Re: Reddit banned me for developing Geddit

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Post by concordDance »

latexr wrote: post #55
Etheryte wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I feel like this is another example of a problem that could be easily solved if we had integrated, anonymous and frictionless payments on the web. For example, imagine a Reddit clone, but every comment you want to post costs one cent. For a regular user it takes a while to build up even a hundred comments, meanwhile for a spammer, this could quickly become costly. The hurdle of course is that no one wants to put thei…

> imagine a Reddit clone, but every comment you want to post costs one cent. For a regular user it takes a while to build up even a hundred comments, meanwhile for a spammer, this could quickly become costly. That site wouldn’t have any spam, true. Though not because of the cost, but because it wouldn’t have any users to make it worth spamming. No one wants to pay per message. Everybody would be too nervous and quadr…

> Everybody would be too nervous and quadruple-thinking “is this message worth a cent?"

I think that's well below the threshold people would care.

The problem is that $0.01 is too low, it'd be well worth spending to advertise or propagandize. For context, USA presidential elections will spend billions, they could make ten billion posts for a fraction of their war chest.

Re: Reddit banned me for developing Geddit

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Post by rglullis »

Looks like it's time for me to plug my fediverser [0] project. It can help people migrate away from Reddit by letting people sign up to a Lemmy instance [1] with their Reddit credentials and automatically subscribe them to the corresponding Lemmy alternative. The alternatives are crowdsourced. There is a "flagship" deployment at https://fediverser.network but if you want to fork it, you just need to run your instance and manage it as you see fit.

The project got a (small) grant from NLNet a couple of months ago for me to work on having the functionality built-in into the Voyager client (a PWA Apollo clone). If more people or companies would like to help/support, hit me up.

[0] https://fediverser.io

[1] https://portal.alien.top

Re: Reddit banned me for developing Geddit

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Post by diggan »

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.…

> you get all comments as json

AFAIK, you don't actually get all comments, and it's impossible to enumerate all comments to a post via that method. Give it a try to enumerate based on the data that gets returned, and you'll end up with a way smaller number than the reddit UI shows on the website.

Re: Reddit banned me for developing Geddit

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Post by diggan »

nabla9 wrote: post #28
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?

That's deliberate. They chose to grow their user base instead and it worked. 2019 350 million users 2024 504 million users Investors invest into future free cash flow.

> They chose to grow their user base instead and it worked

"It worked" but for what? Usually the idea is to focus on user growth first, and then eventually turn a profit, but what difference does it make if you succeed with the first step if you haven't even thought about the second step, much less be able to succeed with it?

Re: Reddit banned me for developing Geddit

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Post by nvarsj »

gdiamos wrote: post #74

I unplugged from Reddit when they did this and my life is much better. Reddit had a good community and content in the early days, but as it grew in popularity and squeezed profit the value dropped. I think it’s funny that early LLM projects were bootstrapped by scraping Reddit. I guess it was better than random garbage from common crawl, but the world has moved on.

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

Re: Reddit banned me for developing Geddit

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Post by zdragnar »

Etheryte wrote: post #34
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…

I feel like this is another example of a problem that could be easily solved if we had integrated, anonymous and frictionless payments on the web. For example, imagine a Reddit clone, but every comment you want to post costs one cent. For a regular user it takes a while to build up even a hundred comments, meanwhile for a spammer, this could quickly become costly. The hurdle of course is that no one wants to put thei…

We used to have that for texting on mobile phones. Everyone and their dog hated it with a passion, and now "free" texting is built into the majority of phone plans in the US, even before things like fb messenger and Whatsapp. Same is true for long distance calling.
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