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Re: Had a call with Reddit to discuss pricing

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Post by stjohnswarts »

witchesindublin wrote: post #526
alfalfasprout wrote: post #169

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I can't really agree. The curation on reddit just far, far better outside of the super generic frontpage subreddits. Tik tok is 99% garbage content.

The main problem with Reddit is the moderation. It all hit the wall when Trump was elected and the Reddit directors decided to run around like chickens and clamp down on half the community. The website has become a far-left US-centric mass market echochamber.

there are plenty of political groups on there, just don't expect to not get downvoted to oblivion in popular groups like r/politics if you are a conservative. That's just the way democracy works and I would guess 75-85% of reddit is far to moderate left on the political spectrum. I also think that like 60% of the users are from the US and Canada so it's definitely going to be US centric. Again there are groups for specific countries and topics there, just don't expect them to make it to the front page.

Re: Had a call with Reddit to discuss pricing

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Post by kkarakk »

dahwolf wrote: post #595
rybosworld wrote: post #328

I definitely see Reddit going the way of Yahoo! A slow spiral into irrelevance because of lots of small bad decisions. At one point, Reddit felt like a lone champion of free speech and conversation in a sea of buzzfeeds. I think they've moderated the website into ruin. They've put a lot of energy into silencing certain kinds of voices/opinions while promoting others. What's left is a very liberal echo chamber. All of…

I think it's a sign of the times, also replicated outside of reddit, for example Mastodon. I enjoyed a solid 20 years of online discourse that was overall reasonable, and most of it not very political. Now everything is highly politicized with a hard split across two camps where before I barely could detect the very concept of a camp at all. There's no detectable reasonable right-wing online, it always escalates into…

>There's no detectable reasonable right-wing online

substack is where all the online right wingers who aren't unhinged reside imo

Re: Had a call with Reddit to discuss pricing

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Post by NovaDudely »

dahwolf wrote: post #595
rybosworld wrote: post #328

I definitely see Reddit going the way of Yahoo! A slow spiral into irrelevance because of lots of small bad decisions. At one point, Reddit felt like a lone champion of free speech and conversation in a sea of buzzfeeds. I think they've moderated the website into ruin. They've put a lot of energy into silencing certain kinds of voices/opinions while promoting others. What's left is a very liberal echo chamber. All of…

I think it's a sign of the times, also replicated outside of reddit, for example Mastodon. I enjoyed a solid 20 years of online discourse that was overall reasonable, and most of it not very political. Now everything is highly politicized with a hard split across two camps where before I barely could detect the very concept of a camp at all. There's no detectable reasonable right-wing online, it always escalates into…

This is something I have seen from many different sites. Someone from mostly the right wing decides to make an alternative to Reddit or Youtube or whatever, just to avoid the restrictive nature of these larger platforms, It is surprising just how quick the alternative turns into the worst possible version of right wing.

Re: Had a call with Reddit to discuss pricing

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Post by dendriti »

dimgl wrote: post #608
rybosworld wrote: post #328

I definitely see Reddit going the way of Yahoo! A slow spiral into irrelevance because of lots of small bad decisions. At one point, Reddit felt like a lone champion of free speech and conversation in a sea of buzzfeeds. I think they've moderated the website into ruin. They've put a lot of energy into silencing certain kinds of voices/opinions while promoting others. What's left is a very liberal echo chamber. All of…

It's truly depressing. Reddit's usefulness as an aggregator is what's kept me around for so long. But the sheer extremist views I see on a daily basis are so off-putting. My wife jokes about how I say every other month that "I'm going to quit Reddit". It's so weird to me that they've let the mods go absolutely bonkers. I've gotten banned from so many subreddits simply for having a different opinion.

Nearly every time a user whines about being banned from a subreddit by evil mods for "muh different opinion", they were just being assholes.

Re: Had a call with Reddit to discuss pricing

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Post by [deleted] »

dimgl wrote: post #618
slushh wrote: post #465

He will get a better deal. If he has to shut down, he can turn Apollo into a lemmy.ml client and migrate a huge part of his 500,000 power users. Reddit cannot risk that lemmy.ml becomes mainstream.

Please stop trying to make lemmy.ml happen. There is so much spam for this website, and it's marginally better.

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Re: Had a call with Reddit to discuss pricing

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Post by rtpg »

jakear wrote: post #773
DaiPlusPlus wrote: post #454

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Unfortunately with today's SPA apps we don't even get the HTML directly It works the other way: with today's SPAs the API (that powers the frontend) is exposed for us to use directly, without going through the HTML - just use your browser's devtools to inspect the network/fetch/XHR requests and build your own client. ----- On an related-but-unrelated note: I don't know why so many website companies aren't allowing…

CORS ruined this pipe dream. Ideally you’d be able to tell your browser that website X loading content from site Y was a-okay and exactly what you want to happen because site Y is user-hostile and site X addresses all those issues, but alas. Now the only way to access site Y is by a) routing all your data through some third party server, or b) installing a native application which has way more access to your machine…

I understand what you're saying, but plenty of websites resolve this by having an in-browser OAuth flow, and then working off of an API. It's not like APIs are asking for CORS stuff in general, just cookie auth to the third party server requires CORS.

If a third-party webapp wanted to access Reddit, an auth flow that gets API tokens from it and then stories those for usage gets this working (in the universe in which Reddit wants this to happen of course). You still get CORS protection from the general drive-by issues, and you'll need an explicit auth step on a third party site (but that's why OAuth sends you to the data provider's website to then be redirected)

Re: Had a call with Reddit to discuss pricing

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Post by holler »

Casteil wrote: post #716
gaudat wrote: post #480

I have a story to tell, about the demise of one of the largest internet forums in my language. About ten years ago, when smartphones just started appearing, the forum did not have a mobile version, and there are various 3rd party clients on the App Store or Android Market. Later on, one of the largest 3rd party client was blocked, because of they hammering the forum's servers too hard,. Or something about caching and…

Yes, please! We need alternatives to the social media giants that are now obviously bent on monetization and other, shadier motives. Moves like this are what caused the huge Digg -> Reddit exodus that significantly boosted Reddit's popularity. People need other places to go when their favorite platform takes this seemingly inevitable path.

Building a public chat network / alternative to Reddit/Twitter/Discord at https://sqwok.im

Create post -> share url -> instant chatroom based around the topic -> live chat with anyone on the net in seconds (hopefully have fun). Open to feedback :)

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