I used to browse r/all/rising and sometimes peeked at /new. It was made somewhat bearable because I used rif and filtered out subreddits like crazy.
I just checked my rif settings export. I had 906 subreddit filters.
(And one domain filter: battleforthenet.com.)
I’m a fan of the very light, widget-only AF Weather. All it does is a chart showing temp & precipitation for the next 24hrs. I like it more than “hourly” forecasts in other apps, but it is pretty niche.
This one, I presume?
wX (Weather app geared towards storm chasers, meteorologists and weather enthusiasts)
Why come to a place where the posts are voted upon by the users if you’re just going to complain about people voting on the “wrong” things?
rif’s UI was near perfect for me. I called it an app version of old.reddit, which was exactly what I wanted.
(Before old.reddit I just considered it a perfect app version of Reddit.)
Off topic, sorry, but I’m curious: Did a bоt copy your comment? Or is this some sort of Federation-related-weirdness?
This gif has always bothered me somehow. I think the transition is too ‘good’ and it makes it feel uncanny… Something like that. I’m sure the quality doesn’t help.
Anyway, what’s happening in 3 days?
Is Toolbox related to RES?
I know RES is mostly u/honestbleeps, I don’t actually know who all is behind Toolbox.
I assumed OP would be willing to say it it was “just” that. This being the Internet and all, people admit to way weirder stuff all the time.
When I was a Boy Scout, we often had kids who would refuse to go. It was a whole thing that we had to check on. (Along with asking everyone how yellow their pee was.)
I remember one guy was in tears on the hike out, and it turned out that he had faked out the scoutmaster by taking a walk with the TP and shovel, but not actually gone. Poor kid was barely able to walk, but kept insisting he couldn’t void either.
I only learned later how serious it can get if prolonged.
My best Reddit experiences were where Reddit facilitated meeting people “IRL”. I found my first D&D group on Reddit, made 3 great penpal friends, scored a couple dates, …, and one romantic relationship.
I really don’t know my worst… A couple times I let people get under my skin, but I eventually got good at blocking people.
NSFW subreddits don’t appear on r/All or r/Popular. (NSFW posts can appear, but only from subs that aren’t flagged as NSFW themselves).
So the current protest method is somewhat counterproductive. People who never took the step of subscribing to these subs likely won’t see them at all.
Plus, people are still over estimating how much impact has been made. If everyone participating in the ‘protests’ instead deleted their accounts and moved on, Reddit would not be hurt all that much.
You know how there are posts all over Reddit (and even all over here) saying “what’s with the porn on r/interestingasfuck?” or “I don’t know what’s going on with John Oliver”?
It’s because of them that the “protests” must continue. Raising awareness is the point. Only a small percentage even know what’s going on.
Reddit would love for everyone to quietly go away, they’ll pretend nothing happened and move on with a small chunk of users missing but still growing.
From my understanding, they already aren’t using the API.
If the spam bots were using the API, then Reddit would have been able to shut them down trivially. Part of logging in via API requires a “client ID” that uniquely identifies the creator of the app/bot being used.
They could theoretically have each bot account create its own client ID, but even that would be a pretty obvious thing to look for.
It might push more power users away. It won’t push away the teeming masses.
Quality will suffer, but they’ll keep their traffic.
There are tools to help. The best recommended ones I know of:
A Rust CLI app: https://github.com/andrewbanchich/shreddit/
A JavaScript bookmarklet (that feels a bit like a full browser extension): https://github.com/j0be/PowerDeleteSuite
I typed a long response but it seems to have disappeared.
It wouldn’t be hard for Reddit to find sympathetic mods to jump in. Any mods of big subs that didn’t participate in the blackout would likely be thrilled to grow their empires.
If necessary, Reddit could throw some interns or some contract employees at the problem. A huge part of the job moderating the giant subs is removing spam and other obvious rule violations. It doesn’t take specialized training to check a report to see if it is accurate and click ban/remove/approve.
The parts of moderating a sub that do take special skill – the parts related to growing and tending a community through thoughtful application of subreddit specific rules and norms – will not be missed in the million+ subscriber subreddits in the short-to-mid term. r/funny and r/TikTokCringe and whatever other giant subs don’t really have any quality standards to speak of anyway.
No. I mentioned that:
Forbes did mention it in their most recent article, but the majority of the drop in valuation was last year.
The “new” valuation, 41% lower than their investment, was announced in April 2023.
It sounds like this will become a problem if/when content providers start requiring it.
Like how Netflix requires certain hardware to enable 4K. (At least I think they do? I remember that was a thing a few years ago.)
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/information-protection/pluton/microsoft-pluton-security-processor