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And now misinformation and astroturfing gets worse because GPT makes it dirt cheap.

Discord has forums now, they're helpful. The only downside is they're not indexed.

Redditors aren't as valuable to sell to because they are more likely to use ad blockers.

That and instagram ads are said to be better.

None with the same niches that made reddit useful.

> When I clicked on a reddit result on Google to find some information, only to find it has been closed down in protest after trying to find something on Google, I was frustrated

There are two solutions to this: google's cached pages and archive.org.

> Reddit is fully within their rights to seize the subreddits from their unpaid moderators and I would expect them to if they're gearing up for an IPO.

Reddit's sob story is that they are still unprofitable. They can't afford to hire moderators for the seized subreddits.

If only there was a way to prevent prompt injection.

But r/popular looks normal for the most part.

I've never used Slashdot, how is the moderation model superior?

> I agree that women tend to not be going for the riskiest jobs or those that require significant tradeoffs in work-life balance; for those, you need a supportive spouse, and there are both demand- and supply-side issues in pairings where males play the supportive role to a female primary earner.

Choosing more risky jobs may be male biology and the gender equality paradox.

No increase in supply of supportive husbands would significantly increase the amount of women choosing riskier careers.

> Iceland consistently ranks as the most gender-equal nation. It is also the nation where men and women are most likely to pursue sex-typical jobs.[1]

Also does a person truly need a supportive spouse to undertake a risky career? My assumption is that people decide their career paths well before marriage, and some men choose their career to be a more attractive dating prospect.

[1] https://bigthink.com/the-present/gender-equality-paradox/

And a masters if you are interested in getting a almost 2x chance of getting swiped right on.

It's in the network. The million dollar idea is how to get the users to move somewhere else.

Short and long term risks both exist.

> You have a body that is adapted to the physical world - routing and navigation through a series of ordered steps is a VERY well developed human skill.

I find that this skill is better utilized with a system that has hyperlinks like Obsidian.

Also purely hierarchical systems break down over time, they can be supported with tags. https://karl-voit.at/2022/01/29/How-to-Use-Tags/

> To my surprise, we tend to think in hierarchical categories all the time. As I have written in my article on Logical Disjunct Categories Don't Work, the real world does not fit into disjunct categories.

> Therefore, we should embrace multi-classification more often. If you do want to learn more about the rationale, you may as well read the first chapters of my PhD thesis or the book "Everything is Miscellaneous" by David Weinberger, just to give you two resources of many.

> Long story short: tagging does take away the burden of finding one single spot in a strict hierarchy of entities which is actually a heavily intertwined network of concepts we do find in the real world. It's far from being a neat hierarchy. Everybody who tries to put "the world" into a strict hierarchy will fail.To my surprise, we tend to think in hierarchical categories all the time. As I have written in my article on Logical Disjunct Categories Don't Work, the real world does not fit into disjunct categories.

So it is an unsolvable problem afterall.

Overjustification effect in action.

Here's a guess from a former reddit dev.

> (I used to work as a backend developer at Reddit - I left 6 years ago but I doubt the way things work has changed much)

> I think it's extremely unlikely that this is deliberate. The way that Reddit builds "mixed" subreddit listings (where you see posts from multiple subreddits, like users' front pages) is inefficient and strange, and relies heavily on multiple layers of caches. Having so many subreddits private with their posts inaccessible has never happened before, and is probably causing a bunch of issues with this process

https://tildes.net/~tech/163e/reddit_appears_to_be_down_duri...

> (I used to work as a backend developer at Reddit - I left 6 years ago but I doubt the way things work has changed much)

> I think it's extremely unlikely that this is deliberate. The way that Reddit builds "mixed" subreddit listings (where you see posts from multiple subreddits, like users' front pages) is inefficient and strange, and relies heavily on multiple layers of caches. Having so many subreddits private with their posts inaccessible has never happened before, and is probably causing a bunch of issues with this process.

https://tildes.net/~tech/163e/reddit_appears_to_be_down_duri...

That folding ideas video is excellent. I implore anyone who wishes to unseat Reddit or any monopolistic website to watch it, so they don't fall into the trap of creating a clone with the same architectural flaws.

Only some of the subreddits are going to stay dark unfortunately. The mods are worried that if they stay private too soon, scab redditors will make their own subreddits and take their niche's users.

But those don't come with complimentary dopamine upon success.

> The idea that reddit mods are some great asset to the site is just strange, IMO. To me, they're one of the worst things about the website.

If you were the CEO of reddit what would you change? Replace the volunteer mods with paid mods?

Why the change? What lessons were learned?

Prevents a community of people awarded for throwing rotten vegetables at people like Twitter and Reddit.

> I also notice that there is no such thing as sort by controversy

> This is one of the things I like about Tildes so far. An option like that is specifically designed for hate. I want to spend my time on these sites talking with other nerds about homelab stuff and niche 30 year old RPGs no one cares about. Not feel the urge to constantly validate myself by looking at comments people are metaphorically laughing at for being ridiculous

https://tildes.net/~tech/15v5/stop_trying_to_make_a_good_soc...

Have you seen Tildes?

- incredible moderation and respectful community

- you can't sort by controversial

- non-profit, no investors can corrupt it

- beautifully simple UI, better than old.reddit on mobile

- fast and not decentralized

- no images just text

- open source

- The site is the main mobile interface, not an app

- No limits to logged-out browsing

- Completely functional for browsing without javascript

- Zero third-party scripts/assets during normal use

- Uses modern versions of simple, reliable, "boring" technology

https://docs.tildes.net/philosophy/site-implementation

The racism is horrendous

I dislike Mastodon too, but what changes do you think Mastodon and Lemmy need to be a viable option?

Both are buggy

I watch movies, read novels, and even code on my phone but I refuse to use the reddit app. It's that bad.

> China has long held a dim view of video games, calling them "electronic drugs" a few years ago. It only allows those under 18 to play online games for one hour, between 8 pm and 9 pm local time, on Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays.

> It's like this market is full of people who want to be screwed and refuse to pay for anything that doesn't screw them.

This market and every market, people don't value things they can get for free.

When money is spent emotions get involved and so does sunk-cost fallacy, tricking us into believing the thing is worth more.