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The discovery hurdle is too big for me to rejoice.

Coursera link is broken unfortunately

The design looks good but what are your plans to make the alternative more attractive than the other alternatives?

What don't you like about the alternatives that exist?

What's your killer feature?

Why won't yours end up like Voat?

Why those in particular?

Do you have a blog where you talk about the deploy?

Here's a good comparison of the two. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29976369

There's no reason why GUI tools can't embrace modal editing.

They're shooting themselves in the foot, more technical users produce more quality content that the lurkers enjoy.

Probably sales team.

Same. However it seems most people don't like the old.reddit look, only 4% of redditors use it. Most people are content with the slow bloated new reddit.

When redditors talked about what sites to migrate to most of them preferred the modern interfaces over text based ones like tildes.net.

I would complain too if "The VP who worked most against Copilot’s creation, would later tell me I didn’t deserve the promo."

Go error "handling" blocks don't seem like error handling, when it's 3+ visual polluting LOC that just return the error up the call stack, occasionally with context like tip #4 of the blogpost.

I've tried to like go's verbose error handling (follow the “happy path”) but the error handling signal to noise ratio is skewed in a way that makes developing in go feel slow and boring.

I don't like discord but new users can be directed to the Forum Channels and search those. That new feature has helped me.

The end result is pretty.

Instead of progressively make the tax rate a sigmoid growth curve with a long lag phase so no one monopolizes apples and books.

Maybe it could have be profitable if Reddit didn't feel the need the add useless features. Poorly done video and chat, NFTs, etc.

Not the mention overhiring the past 3 years.

Reddit could have been a lean text based forum, it doesn't need to host images and video.

> We need a new form of social media where users and communities can easily export their content and data. A reddit clone with a similar UI is not enough.

If a site allowed imports how would it work? It could work for all of a user's top level tweets, but for something with threads like reddit I don't see any solution.

> Text forums have effectively been solved ever since NNTP was invented.

The unsolved problem is moderation. Reddit mods are partly protesting because the official app's moderation features suck. And Lemmy just had some defederation drama because their moderation tools can't handle the spam bots.

Powerful moderation tools will be the killer feature of Reddit's killer.

I thought of a similar issue.

It could be limited to active high karma participants of the community, however anyone can game that with GPT powered bots.

Another possibility is to have yearly oustings instead of voting mods in.

At 90% disapproval mods get kicked out. This along with brigading detection should cover damage by bad actors for the most part.

How much times has this happened in history?

Digg and Tumblr?

The lack of search indexing is a major downside though.

> One somewhat-related bit on the topic of moderators: does it bother anyone else that the stewards of some of these communities are effectively 100% anonymous?

It doesn't bother me one bit. If the community is that big a company should fork over cash and pay employees to moderate it instead, or keep an eye on the volunteer moderators for any suspicious actions.

Instead of exposing identification I rather have moderators be subject to yearly votes. That way squatting is less of an issue.

As soon as users discover prompt injection those investments go up in flames.

In this more mature internet, a demise of reddit would be more impactful.

"Google is getting a lot worse because of the Reddit blackouts" [1]

Digg never had this influence, nor a decade plus of useful threads with information not found anywhere else.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36319392

I don't see why people prefer these new slow web apps instead of something fast like HN.

Unfortunately I believe the ones with the Reddit mannerisms and overused jokes are the ones that stayed as they are too addicted to leave.

The actual creators of content are different from the drones.

What moderation tools is Lemmy missing for an invasion of that sort to be so easy?

They're a loud minority because they've invested more into the platform. It is the 1–9–90 rule in action.

When the 1% leaves the platform's quality will go down.

Somehow after all these years reddit never got their search to work. You can paste a comment word for word in the search and reddit won't find it.

They're dependent on google.

Also if they somehow figure out search to work, it will be ruined because of users gaming the search system with SEO.

> However, the argument that Reddit can build a better search than Google is a flawed argument. And that flaw is the same flaw that makes Google results bad. And that flaw is money. [1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30369402

I can't imagine the decentralized camp ever growing significantly.

On r/RedditAlternatives people are discussing what sites to migrate to. The federated kbin and lemmy are getting significantly less attention than the centralized squabbles. [1]

Many redditors complain that sites being federated is actually a downside, as they don't understand it and even if they do they rather not explain it to their friends.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/RedditAlternatives/comments/148tn2s...