All good things have to end but this was avoidable.
https://old.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/13x0hzo/been_wor...
I built HACK specifically to be able to be notified when people reply to me. That's one of my selling points.
I was spoiled by Apollo for Reddit and HACK has done the same thing for HN. Thank you!
And now I’m posting my first HN comment on this app to the dev hahah.
But don't worry, that's not going to happen here. You don't need a decentralized non-profit community, trust me. It's going to work out this time. Really.
With that said it's in YC's best interest to keep users happy, only change what is requested and generally keep the status quo. Unfortunately for a company like Reddit that is a social media site and has to make money with their social media product, keeping users happy at all costs is not in their best interest (though that has yet to be seen).
Note that all of these are still centralized, so still subjects to similar issues. Once again selfhosting is the best xay forward
But for the rest of us, there's always a choice to foster a new community. Whether there is enough for that, and if a server is ready for that load, are big questions to answer though
The reach of contrived political philosophy, fiat economic hustle, and pop culture gabber can be constrained; the obsolescence of /. , MySpace, and the like did not destroy reality. Now we know the outcome of the social media experiment. Utter dumpster fire.
It occurs to me people made a whole lot of small business work before handing sacks of cash to cloud SaaS
We need less adminisphere in all contexts so we can screw up again, let the wrong people helicopter us with banal AI bots, make lizard brain m sedate until it gets bored with AI bots. Then we’ll trot out a new copium for the masses and they can lean back again, super proud of their commitment to whatever hallucinated ideology they believe they’re serving.
All while waving off the ecological impact, because reality is just a big graph, mmmk
It's the normal users that suffer. Hopefully that suffering will hit Reddits usage/cash flows enough to make them u turn.
They still can, but most sites these days are fine going where the people go, and linking to their custom stuff.
The alternative is the god awful updated site or their app. I hope you like adverts.
Only if there was a way to host websites where no central authority ever owned the data and the people who ran relays got paid in some form of cryptographically secure crypto currency. Frontend clients that made requests would need to pay in the same token to avoid abuse.