Do we have a federated Mastodon-esque system to replace Reddit yet? Its the only way to ensure the community survives at this point; Reddit leadership has already proven they only wish to harm both shareholders and the community at large under the guise of "increasing shareholder value" and shove their fiduciary duty under the bus.
But I'd just add there is a pretty major difference between "temporarily" and "permanently". Major kudos to r/ProgrammerHumor and other subs that are doing it right - saying they will be shutting down indefinitely unless Reddit changes their stance.
Just saying you're only going to shut down for a couple days is essentially theater - Reddit can certainly wait out some popular subs being down for a few days. More generally, that's really the only way protests have a way of achieving their goals, by saying you'll engage in some behavior (or boycott) until your demands are met, or at least met with some change. Anything that's time limited is pretty much doomed to fail. For example, I'm not sure what the organizers of the recent Amazon "walkout" hoped to accomplish. That wasn't a walkout, it was lunch.
A permanent closure of a popular sub is 100% going to lead to Reddit declaring the sub abandoned, replacing the mod team, and reopening. Has happened many times before. Not sure if programminghumor in particular meets that popularity threshold though.
That's like immigrant jobs: You can take them away but there aren't hoards of passionate volunteers chomping at the bit to replace them.
The day to day is mostly deciding whether borderline comments should be removed and whether a post contains too much self-promotion.
I like Internet communities and am willing to volunteer some time to help some be more successful.
If this was even 1 year ago, things would be different. But it's not.
(I moderate a major subreddit)
There is something wrong with me that in the 90-9-1 rule, I need to be the 1%. I see a forum, and I can't stop myself from commenting or posting. Getting invited to moderate happens naturally after that.
I wish I was the 90%.
Do you have examples, specifically when a subreddit went dark in protest and Reddit replaced the mods?
I have heard of cases where essentially a mod went on a power trip/tantrum and wanted to shut down a subreddit, but that behavior specifically angered the vast majority of subscribers to that subreddit. I think the optics and reality of that are very different from a subreddit shutting down to protest the API changes (in some cases, subreddits held polls).
You should be able to view instances without joining. Checkout my instance: https://reddthat.com
Ps. I've disabled email verification for a short period to allow the influx to happen.
Feel free to come join reddthat.com if lemmyWorld doesn't work for you
> 357 users / month
> These instructions are written for Ubuntu 20.04.
I use FreeBSD and no link to the source anywhere within the manual..
Back in the day, that was the World Wide Web. Federated gardens are a modern invention.
Yes - it's all the sites that people link to on reddit :-P
For the record, there's something happening to all the big Social Media sites over the last few years
IRC/Freenode - dead, replaced by Libera, but not nearly as vibrant as its heyday
Twitter - dying, replaced by Mastodon, Bluesky, and Instagram, none of them really capture the magic that was twitter, Bluesky feels a lot like Google+, Mastodon is regularly policed by people demanding that people not act like it's twitter.. and Instagram is for kids...
Facebook - seems to be dying, they've blown things with their advertising model, and the automagic content moderation is/was also a fail (it either judges everyone far too harshly, or not at all), the users are heading to FB's other sites (Instagram) or Tik Tok
Reddit - dying (but is this temporary?), being replaced by Lobsters, Hacker News, maybe more
Tik Tok - facing serious regulatory challenges in Europe and the US.
It's inevitable that things will die/change, I do find it really interesting that the big ones from the last decade are all suddenly finding themselves on the outer.
One of the exceptions is YouTube, which faced serious competition from the likes of Tik Tok, but still appears to be generating content/high readership, and seems largely immune to the absolute garbage that's been uploaded over the past few years (conspiracy nuts, politics, etc)
It's quietly enabling all of the best topic/product/niche-specific commmunities out there. https://discourse.mcneel.com as an example is a thriving treasure trove for CAD/Nurbs/product modelers/architects/etc.
Truth is, for me, I just don't use it - it's as bad as Slack IMO, but I'm sure that a lot of people are finding it worthwhile
* Topics are sorted the exact same way as a BB, by default. * Posts have all the usual multimedia features. * The search actually works. * It's super fast and minimal.
I'm generally curious what your UX frustrations are here...
2. When you try to Ctrl-F search it hijacks it with the server side search, it is slower than the browser search. It also does not reliably default to search in this thread, and sometimes fails to find content that's on screen even.
3. The WIP reply draft is synced across all your tabs, which can be obnoxious if you're trying to read one post to reply in another topic based on its contents.
Glad most forums use xenforo.
Terrible, terrible system that should've already been replaced by static html + htmx.
> 107.7M Views
You sure about that?
https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1666203439146172419
> The main Twitter video view metric is triggered when a user watches a video for at least 2 seconds and sees at least 50% of the video player in-view.
So anyone that had the (auto playing) video in view for two seconds as they scrolled through their feed. Multiplied by the number of times it’s in their feed. It’s a pretty meaningless number.
> 845.9K Likes
> 237.6K Retweets
In a day and a half for a ten minute video of a guy in his basement talking. It isn't even a video platform.
https://twitter.com/BTS_twt/status/1296701109340237824
So does 237k retweets in 2023 mean the network is as vital as it was in 2020? I have no idea what basis this argument is being made on.
The reason why this number is more important than overall user growth, is because social networks don’t decline, they chug along, until the collapse all at once, like a bridge with a key support knocked out. By studying the collapse look of Friendster, MySpace, Snap (which technically still exists), this predictor of collapse has been identified.
So yeah Twitter is dead. The rest of the network just doesn’t know it yet.
See:
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/05/17/twitters-top-users-are-posti... https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29196654/
BLACKPINK and Taylor Swift both tweeted today. So did Barack Obama, and Stephen Curry. And CNN, ABC News, CBS News, and Fox News are all constantly updating their Twitter feeds.
Meanwhile the big Mastodon draw is... Kathy Griffin? And her last Mastodon toot was... March 31. Guess she got bored of only getting 100 likes per post.
People who are only interested in virality and clicks and drawing as large an audience as possible are welcome to stay away.
Celebrities aren’t trendsetters. They’re laggards. To use the hockey metaphor, they always skate to the puck, not where it is going. Case in point: Every band was on MySpace until well after the collapse began.
Twitter has all the inventive in the world to artificially inflate view counts and have done similar, sketchy things recently[0].
[0] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/02/report-musk-had-...
They mainly focus around open source software. Admins are great, and the server is fast and reliable.
My "normie" friends don't even want to try something polished like Signal. Mastodon would have to be heavily simplified, polished, and maybe sponsor some exclusive influencers to actually take the spot of Twitter.
Yes we do! It's called Lemmy - it's built on ActivityPub, is Mastodon compatible, and people actually use it!
Knowing HN users, I don't know why Lemmy hasn't been all over the front page. It works brilliantly.
Maybe check out beehaw.org
Is this true though? Are the subs which normal people visit are shutting down too?
There's the list so far. Definitely some heavy hitters in there.
Note that if you want to see the full list you'll have to click through to the second thread, since they hit the character limit :)
Maybe they can go to whatever platform the banned subreddits reformed on. Unfortunately many of the subreddit communities that are now being screwed over in the same fashion by Reddit were cheering on that behavior when others were targeted.
> Reddit leadership has already proven they only wish to harm both shareholders and the community at large under the guise of "increasing shareholder value" and shove their fiduciary duty under the bus.
reddit isn't a public company, so unless the current owners who are the ones putting all this in motion are looking into self-flagellation they haven't proven a thing. The reality is that reddit is huge, and most users couldn't care less about all this drama.
That seems like a strong statement. Currently on /r/all, top posts 1, 3, 5, 6, and 14 are all regarding this. Some pretty major subreddits are planning on joining in on the protests.