Bozicus

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (4 children)

This might actually be a good time to invite people from Reddit, while the new unpopular decisions are still fresh in people's minds...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

This is definitely a thing. I don't like making a comment or post that has already been made 80 times, and I'm used to that being the case. Once I get used to the fact that I might be the first one to post something (and possibly the only one who wants to, lol), I will probably get used to posting regularly.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

I expect them to move chat functionality to the official app. Facebook made a similar move many years ago, and I think they did get increased access to users' phones that way. Reddit might find it a harder sell, given that they have a totally different role in people's lives, and (much as I hate to imply anything nice about Facebook), a much less usable app.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago

Same. It might take a minute to curate for the specific news you want, but there are plenty of communities providing substantive news at least daily.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

This is a great point, and a great link. Reddit doesn't understand the extent to which "user goodwill" in general and "moderator goodwill" in particular were crucial to its business model. Without them, it's not going to make any difference what they do, profits will not, as Huffman put it, "arrive."

(Relatedly, what a revealing way to put it. Huffman obviously thought he was sitting on a heap of static assets he could tap into for quick profits instead of a dynamic system he could have cultivated for a rich harvest. Too late now for either, I expect, though he may catch the dregs if he's lucky).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I... think you might need to accept at least a late-August in order to bring in certain kinds of content. Some interest groups aren't here because the userbase is not yet wide enough to include them, so in order to get a broad range of non-tech content, a slice of "the masses" are going to need to come in. You absolutely can protect your own spaces from people you don't want there, though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

People don't have to be actually tech people now, they just have to be comfortable with the fact that a lot of the people on here are tech people, and a lot of the conversations assume a high level of technical expertise. I'm in that "I don't know what y'all are talking about, but I'm cool with it" crowd, and there are definitely communities where I would probably be okay even if I had a lower tech tolerance. I think we're relatively close to being able to invite non-tech people, though it will mean a bit of a culture shift in communities that are not explicitly tech-focused.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

YEP. The US "corporate personhood" law has always struck me as one of the most on-the-nose examples of dystopian capitalist BS, tbh.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Not that I know of, no. Probably they'll disappear if Reddit deletes the sub, or reappear if they force it back open, so you may just have to sit tight for a few weeks. Is there anything particularly sensitive you want to delete, or are you just trying to get everything?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Apparently, at least one person who works for Mashable got theirs back that way, but not everyone who requested data did.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Honestly, I feel hurt on behalf of the people affected, even though I am not one of them, and I have permanently left Reddit. This is just cruel. Especially since there's reason to believe they basically don't remove public posts and comments.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Iirc an actual announcement said they weren't migrating the older data, though I suppose that doesn't rule out just failing to think of a way to make it work.

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