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Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3B valuation

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Re: Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3B valuation

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Post by unityByFreedom »

xiongchiamiov wrote: post #680
unityByFreedom wrote: post #587

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> I think you have to separate the admins, who are reddit employees, and the subreddit moderators, who are mostly not. Admins created automod which delegated shadowbanning to moderators. Who's to blame for that? The mods or the admins? It's an age-old question whether kings or peasants are to blame for humanity's imperfections. Some mods probably would have scripted something themselves, yet admins helped them and ot…

> Admins created automod They did not. Automod was created by a user as just another script that interacted with reddit's api (albeit, a powerful and useful one). Deimorz eventually joined reddit and became an admin, and Automod was eventually integrated into the site code (primarily for performance reasons), but that was completely user-created, and in fact a great example of how reddit's community governed the site…

Okay, user created, and promoted to be on-server and faster by reddit. Automod is a heavy-handed tool that both mods and admins played a role in creating.

Re: Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3B valuation

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explainplease wrote: post #815
Deimorz wrote: post #483

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It's impossible to answer questions like that. Depending on a lot of factors, the response could be anything from "do absolutely nothing" to "ban both users". Community management and moderation aren't simple, black-and-white decisions. Anyone that claims they are has never been involved in doing it at a meaningful level.

What if there are no other factors? User A, new account, posts a single comment: "Illegal immigrants should be deported." User B, new account, posts a single comment in reply: "You're a racist." What does Tildes do? It's not impossible to answer that. And the answer will tell us a lot about what Tildes wants to be.

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Re: Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3B valuation

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Post by sasaf5 »

TH3R3LL1K wrote: post #751
pbhjpbhj wrote: post #573

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It would be interesting to know how much more a user is worth to them when they install the app; it must be quite significant.

Im wondering if they are able to get more information on user when they use reddit on the app then on the browser

It is about ads. Browsers have adblocks.

Re: Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3B valuation

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Post by RickSanchez2600 »

jedberg wrote: post #127
pier25 wrote: post #121

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The UI is based on some open source repo by Reddit.

Yeah, it's based on the old open source reddit.

Using Gun and Blockchain to mirror content on other servers to prevent data loss.

Notabug.io is a P2P tech using the old Reddit UI.

http://k666.kr5ddit.com/ Is a free and open source version of http://kr5ddit.com made to look like the old Scoop and function like Reddit.

Re: Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3B valuation

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Post by RickSanchez2600 »

incongruity wrote: post #791
noir_lord wrote: post #566

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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.

Here are some alternatives to Reddit:

http://voat.co/

http://gab.ai/

http://notabug.io/

http://kr5ddit.com/

Re: Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3B valuation

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Post by ionised »

yyyymmddhhmmss wrote: post #212
babypuncher wrote: post #191

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I'm a proud atheist, in part thanks to early Reddit. /r/Atheism at the time it was removed from the default subs list was a toxic cesspool filled with a lot of the same kinds of hateful rhetoric and magical thinking they criticize religious groups for. Removing it as a default was the right call.

>I’m a proud athiest Might we say you are a religious athiest?

No, because that doesn't make sense.

Re: Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3B valuation

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Post by Ntrails »

IggleSniggle wrote: post #194
rhinoceraptor wrote: post #145

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I do mind them promoting their app, it’s a horrible app and they’ve continually ruined their website. The only way I can stand to use reddit anymore is through Narwhal, at least until they kill their 3rd party apps API.

It’s funny, the web app used to be really good. Much better than the native app. Since then they have been making the web app increasingly worse over time, actively degrading its functionality and pleasantness to use.

I actually gave up and switched to desktop on my phone - which is barely usable at all - and yet still somehow less infuriating than the shitty mobile site...

Re: Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3B valuation

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Post by IggleSniggle »

StellarTabi wrote: post #527
IggleSniggle wrote: post #194

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It’s funny, the web app used to be really good. Much better than the native app. Since then they have been making the web app increasingly worse over time, actively degrading its functionality and pleasantness to use.

If you're interested in a web app (not downloaded). you could try Redusa. It's still early in development though. It's built in vuejs. https://github.com/redusa/redusa

Thank you for understanding my needs! I will check that out.

Re: Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3B valuation

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Post by pizzazzaro »

rubyn00bie wrote: post #108

I actually hate Reddit these days. I've never really been into their various communities/subredits- and on occasion they're really useful spots of information or entertainment. But... Their current "force you into app" (which appears to leave you logged in, able to make account changes, even if you change your password) approach is fucking horrible. Their mobile navigation is broken by design and.... for what? What i…

Im a fan of third party, open-source Reddit apps on Android. Joey for Reddit is cleaner, leaner, and fairly intuitive.
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