Tocky on 14/6/2023 at 03:25
Probably the same for me but I'm always seeing nefarious reasoning as it happens when I get in a row it seems. That place could make me paranoid.
One positive I will say is that, as honest as I've been here, I have been more honest there about things that hurt others in my life because it's much more anonymous there.
Cipheron on 14/6/2023 at 03:58
You can disable followers in your profile settings, then you get no new ones and all existing ones go away. I don't think real people really used that feature.
I also went through and disabled as many options that "suggest" content as possible, and I also have all the subs I'm in on the mute option - so I basically don't have a "feed" at all. I get a literally empty front page, which is one way to avoid time sinks.
So that means I have to actively choose which subs i want to look at instead of having an algorithm trying to feed me a constant stream of content optimized to suck my time away.
TOOTO on 14/6/2023 at 04:47
Quote Posted by Cipheron
Maybe they can justify that it's to prevent scammers using bots ...
I think the excuse they used was that they don't want AI companies to be able to scrape data from their website without paying, although to me that sounds like appealing to a hot-topic issue in an attempt to distract people.
Nameless Voice on 14/6/2023 at 10:05
I had noticed that I pretty much never even notice the usernames of anyone on Reddit, it feels really anonymous.
And on the rare occasion where I do notice someone's name, it feels kind of creepy, especially if they're posting about real-life things.
I didn't even know people could follow each other on Reddit. Apparently that feature doesn't work on the old UI.
WingedKagouti on 14/6/2023 at 13:10
I only ever visit Reddit when I'm searching for the solution to something and it's in one of the top relevant results on Google or someone else links me there.
Still what is presented here does seem quite unfair to the volunteer moderators, but something like this could be the result of Reddit as a whole struggling for money to keep up with the cost of servers and bandwidth. Even so, dumping the cost onto volunteers is the wrong move.
David on 14/6/2023 at 13:27
I don't think any of the 3rd party apps (Apollo, RIF etc) are against paying for the API, it's timings and pricings that are causing the problems.
The apps were given about 30 day's notice that pricing would be implemented - for the most popular app, Apollo, this would mean the annual Reddit API costs could increase from zero, to $20,000,000. Broken down by user, this means that Apollo would be paying Reddit 20x the amount that Reddit would bring in via advertising if that user were subject to the advertising via first-party apps.
imgur has a paid-for API that is used by Apollo - on a per-call basis it costs approx. 75x less than the Reddit pricing.
Reddit are just trying to kill 3rd party apps in preparation for their rumoured IPO, and they should just come out and say it. They're also removing all NSFW content from the API, while adding support for it to their own image hosting platform.
P.S Hi d0om :)
d0om on 14/6/2023 at 13:31
Hi! I have been rather bad at posting. I have a little rug rat now who rather limits my time to go on forums.
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Pyrian on 14/6/2023 at 22:38
Quote Posted by WingedKagouti
I only ever visit Reddit when I'm searching for the solution to something and it's in one of the top relevant results on Google or someone else links me there.
I've heard that the blackout actually caused problems for
google because so many question/answer searches lead to Reddit.
Nameless Voice on 15/6/2023 at 09:47
How did that cause them problems? More people having to request the second page of results?
Nameless Voice on 18/6/2023 at 13:59
So, the latest has the CEO saying that people should have the right to vote out moderators who engaged in the protest, comparing them to "landed gentry" (this from someone who is likely paid multiple millions of dollars a year.)
They've also forced all the subreddits to stop protesting by threatening to delete them if they didn't stop immediately.
What a lovely company.
