Reddit Strike Has Started

Post by bawolff » Mon, Jun 12, 2023, 5:56 AM UTC

GolfPopper wrote: post #167

wpietri wrote: post #87

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Twitter too! When I worked there they jokingly referred to the head of product as the defense against the dark arts teacher, in that every year or so they'd disappear mysteriously and there'd be a new one. Most of Twitter's successes came from watching what users were actually doing and supporting that (e.g., at mentions, retweets, quote tweets). Many of their failures have been trying to graft on something irrelevan…

I think there's a fundamental conflict, in that these network effect businesses are terrible as for-profit businesses. They're of great value to those who use them, and indirectly to society as a whole. Yet there's no good way to monetize them (nor does there need to be monetization), and trying to do so damages the functionality of the network. Both Twitter and Reddit would likely be better off (from the POV of the…

Post by Gareth321 » Mon, Jun 12, 2023, 6:07 AM UTC

skinnymuch wrote: post #845

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I stopped visiting reddit after too many mods censored me and others that don't conform to the left's ideology. Twitter is where I get content now. And I'm a liberal.

I doubt the veracity of your story. As a liberal you’re complaining about how one of the most liberal capitalist sites has too much left ideology. What is left ideology to you?

Post by Gareth321 » Mon, Jun 12, 2023, 6:09 AM UTC

Tao3300 wrote: post #479

nologic01 wrote: post #404

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What are the alternatives exactly? Until we get interoperating platforms where people can easily migrate and reward the places that treat them the best we are stuck with the few platforms that managed to create network lock-in. The social media as a prison operating model.

I'm apparently in limbo waiting for beehaw to figure out I'm not Hitler.

Post by zirgs » Mon, Jun 12, 2023, 6:11 AM UTC

scarface_74 wrote: post #852

wpietri wrote: post #376

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If Reddit just cared about having the ads, they could have a free version of the API that includes the inline ads. Or otherwise work with API users to blend in the ads for user-facing clients. They could even kick back a share of that revenue to client makers. As far as I know they're not doing any of that. To me it looks like the goal is to wall off all the user-generated content in an attempt to extract maximum dol…

The easiest method is don’t have a free version at all and only people with a paid (ad free) subscription could use third party clients.

Post by adamc » Mon, Jun 12, 2023, 6:16 AM UTC

vkou wrote: post #743

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I still feel bad for whatever web developer had to check in the "this page looks better in the app" banner.

It's a job. Some people are paid to shoot rockets into cities, some people are paid to deny healthcare coverage, some people are paid to lie on television, and some people are paid to lie on dark pattern banners.