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Re: Reddit banned me for developing Geddit

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Post by conradfr »

mubu wrote: post #12

Reddit was my favorite website growing up. I'd discover new interesting subs, read random posts and comments. The frontpage was somewhat interesting too, but now it feels like a bot fest and propaganda machine. I still use Reddit but way less than I used to before, and I no longer use it for fun but just to read niche tech subs. I refuse to use the official mobile app. I've always used Baconreader and then Relay on A…

The current anti-Trump content is off the chart. I know it's the elections but for (at least) non-Americans it's not that interesting.

Actually the genuine content (and votes) seems to be a minority now?

Reddit and X are both very bad, where is the non-video fun these days?

Re: Reddit banned me for developing Geddit

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Post by CamelCaseName »

7373737373 wrote: post #59

The problem with Reddit is that it was founded by people who care more about money than their users

Ironic then, that moderators who work for free get the brunt of the blame when a lot of issues stem from the platform itself.

Management and SWEs being paid very comfortable salaries to build critical features like... an online indicator, or products that just get shut down after a year because they never bothered interfacing with the community and focusing on a better user experience.

Or, as it's better known, resume driven development.

Re: Reddit banned me for developing Geddit

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Post by Havoc »

Surprised anyone is developing against reddit as a platform at all. Relying on a platform in general is risky...but Reddit?!?

It has a single redeeming feature - network effects on good user conent. That's it...literally everything else about it is a dumpsterfire, including how they treat devs.

Re: Reddit banned me for developing Geddit

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Post by immibis »

I've been banned more times from Reddit than I can count. Reddit used to be good, but now it seems to be destroying itself on purpose (or maybe for bribe money). Just give up on it. All the good information is in the pre-2023 archives anyway.

Re: Reddit banned me for developing Geddit

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Post by celdon25 »

odyssey7 wrote: post #76
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…

Notably, unlike Reddit, HN isn’t a business that needs to be profitable, to my knowledge. It’s a recruiting tool for a major Silicon Valley VC firm. Brainrot isn’t going to attract as much of the talent or stimulate the ideas they’d want to fund, so HN has been good at resisting brainrot. This is my own analysis, I don’t have a source for it. The internet has always had nice discussion forums that were labors of love…

> altruistic billionaires finance more discussion forums that don’t exist to be profitable, at least not directly.

A certain person tried that, but HN has given them nothing but hate over it.

If there’s a specific idea you or others had in mind that was different, I haven’t seen any serious proposals or roadmaps posted. I’d love to see it though, I’d rather things be more decentralized without the contemporary gatekeeping that comes with it.

Also I’m not sure what you had in mind for altruistic. There’s a difference between financing people’s nostalgia fetishes and financing the repairing of society, but either could be squeezed into the definition.

Re: Reddit banned me for developing Geddit

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Post by immibis »

odyssey7 wrote: post #76
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…

Notably, unlike Reddit, HN isn’t a business that needs to be profitable, to my knowledge. It’s a recruiting tool for a major Silicon Valley VC firm. Brainrot isn’t going to attract as much of the talent or stimulate the ideas they’d want to fund, so HN has been good at resisting brainrot. This is my own analysis, I don’t have a source for it. The internet has always had nice discussion forums that were labors of love…

They don't have to be billionaires, but they do have to be altruistic. The good corners of the old web were run by one or two guys spending a few hours a week, and that's all that was needed because each corner was small, but there were many of them.

Re: Reddit banned me for developing Geddit

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Post by latexr »

concordDance wrote: post #85
latexr wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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.

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

People don’t even pay 0.99$ for apps they use all day every day, opting instead to suffer through ads and have their batteries drained. There’s no chance they’d pay 0.01$ per message.

For the vast majority, there are two price points: free and not free. The psychological difference between free and 0.01$ is magnitudes larger than the difference between 0.01$ and 1$.

Re: Reddit banned me for developing Geddit

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Post by bravetraveler »

jorams wrote: post #49
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…

A weird aspect of the reddit API crackdown is that they never actually shut down unauthenticated access to the API. rif is fun also still works (or worked last time I started it a month or two ago), it's just read-only. The JSON endpoints Geddit uses are the reddit API, and it's wide open, so in no way is it "bypassing API restrictions".

Well yeah, when they sell the data people need an endpoint!

Drug trade, online. The first taste is free. Authenticating it digs into the profits.

Re: Reddit banned me for developing Geddit

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Post by immibis »

jorams wrote: post #49
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…

A weird aspect of the reddit API crackdown is that they never actually shut down unauthenticated access to the API. rif is fun also still works (or worked last time I started it a month or two ago), it's just read-only. The JSON endpoints Geddit uses are the reddit API, and it's wide open, so in no way is it "bypassing API restrictions".

They've drastically tightened rate limits. What we could use is a distributed API system so each of us could fetch requests under the limit, and together build a complete feed again, which could be displayed openly.

Re: Reddit banned me for developing Geddit

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Post by immibis »

privacymatters4 wrote: post #37

Nice. Things are doing pretty well where people migrated to over on ..the other platform since the API app destruction days, you should join. Honestly if they banned you it's because it threatened their IPO. Spez and co don't care about communities or the people. They never even gave mods their mod tools. They just left AutoModerator to sludge along laggingly on a single core after firing the creator of it that went…

It is definitely not a decent app, with the amount of advertisements etc.
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