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Is there an ActivityPub or similarly decentralized alternative? I don't want to get invested in reddit only for them to shut down their API (it'll happen, always does) and force me to use their garbage mobile client.
The code is open source and on github: https://github.com/Faleidel/moontreeproject
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Which breaks on search result and referral traffic, forcing users to install third party extensions to maintain, thus creating new security vectors. Why not just load your own css and set the div to "display:none;" then?
This is what I do on browsers that have greasemonkey. The downside is that I have to be aware of their div and other things they make to try to make me switch to mobile. Specifying a parameter of reddit’s specification allows me to work with them as a user to follow their parameter. If their users don’t like certain features (like nag popups) then it helps them to proactively solve this problem before their users lea…
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I really think "The illegals" needs to be erased from the discourse. Unless they have a distinct species moniker, they're still human beings located in the wrong place politically (in the geographical sense).
There's a simple solution - legalize everything and see how it pans out.
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No comment on the internal management issues, but why is drug use considered an issue unless it is in the work environment? I'm really sick of people thinking that "drugs" are bad, while alcohol/tobacco are not. If someone's substance use is affecting their work, then that's a legit issue. Otherwise it's as irrelevant as which (if any) football team they support.
This represents an opportunity, but also a risk. Opportunity to grow in these countries, or see another company offering similar service arise and gain momentum.
If @spez give me 10 horses with food for 20 days walk I could come back with more than 30 million users from Brazil alone.
It amazes me the kind of sheer incompetency their product team has demonstrated over the past 2-3 years. (Edit - as pointed out in replies to this post, this is an unfair characterization fueled by my recent frustrations with the direction the site is going. I don't think it is unreasonable to point out that reddit is failing the expectations of their users, but I don't doubt for a minute that the individuals working…
I myself have been looking for a good Reddit alternative.
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When I was in high school in the late 90s, it certainly wasn't a popular opinion to be an atheist, the few times I brought up that religious organizations were questionable, or seemed to do a lot of backtracking through history, it did not go over well. I kept my atheistic beliefs to myself. This wasn't bible belt territory either, we are talking about a suburb of NYC. I read Nietzsche on my own in high school, and j…
Al Gore got up and apologized for a funding policy theory he had. He thought if we brought the Internet to rural areas that the brain drain would stop. (I argue that with Seattle and the Valley getting so crowded we might be on the cusp of something like what he thought would happen, but with smaller regional cities). What happened instead was that marginalized people all over the US found out they weren’t crazy or b…
On a somewhat related note: A lot of people cite the "faces of atheism" meme/trend whatever you want to call it as being the tipping point when /r/atheism just went too far and it became cringey. I mean some of those posts were a bit cringey, but overall I think it sent a very needed message- that there are lots of people out there from all walks of life that think like you do, don't think you have to give in to the prevailing beliefs. I don't think my upbringing was that abnormal- questioning the existence of god, my parents/family would have smacked me, probably verbally but if I really pushed it they likely would have punished me. My friends all seemed to firmly believe as well but were generally tolerant, it certainly seems you could be a social pariah in more religious parts of the country. Being exposed to new ideas like this I am sure spawned some people to say to themselves I don't have to go along with all this crap, there are bigger and better things out there.
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11 for me and what used to be 30-60 minutes a day (I like certain subreddits /r/programming /r/chess /r/ Etc.) is maybe 15 and not at all for days now. I miss old reddit, nothing else really fills the niche in a unified way.
So where do you go instead? Reddit and Facebook both have some hold for me because of niche communities that they both let me aggregate/monitor/interact with easily, without going to a myriad of websites. I really don’t want to have to do that - in some cases, I’m not even sure I can find comparable replacements.
It is interesting because it's related to what I do but different enough to be fascinating.
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It's still bad. They should cookie the choice so it doesn't always pop up every time.
You can do that, it's just a bit hidden away. https://i.imgur.com/qIDu7q3.jpg
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Don't forget their still live email signup approach. Clicking 'Signup" brings you to a single email form field screen that in no way indicates you do NOT need to provide an email. Clicking 'Next' without entering one lets you create your username and PW without an email address. As a marketer, I understand (but don't condone or agree with) the thinking behind some of what they've done, but as a user of over a decade,…
People bring that up all the time, but I can't really think of fainter "dark pattern" criticism than an optional email field. I bet nobody would even comment on it if it was actually required. Reddit should probably just go ahead and require it to eliminate the complaints. Hell, I'm more ready to call it an easter egg than deception.
The dark pattern is that there is zero indicator that it is actually optional and they appear to go out of their way to hide that fact. It is about being upfront with your intentions, and what you are offering users.