Reddit is good, right?

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bobbilljim: May 29, 2013; this christmas feels like the very first christmas to me

one day u wake up and theres mysterious numbers above everyones heads also everyone gets mildly annoying "superpowers" also its teh harry potter universe with pokemon

# ? Jul 10, 2015 06:23

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born on a buy you: Aug 14, 2005; Odd Fullback
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existentialism and atheism were thought provoking when they were new ideas used as philosophical tools. they're dumb and useless when people actually try to turn them into life ethos though

# ? Jul 10, 2015 10:35

BONGHITZ: Jan 1, 1970

hmm, maybe you are wrong?

# ? Jul 10, 2015 10:48

Constant Hamprince: Oct 24, 2010; by exmarx; College Slice

Luigi Thirty posted:

Met a girl on Tinder. We hit it off.

Tinder said her age was 24 but in reality she's 17 and hasn't graduated high school.

She's interested in going on a date. I've only dated girls older than me up to this point.

I don't really have any intentions of breaking any laws with this girl but I want to know your opinions and if, as a goatee-wearing 21 year old who frequently gets told he looks more like 25, would it be considered weird or creepy by friends, family, etc. that I'm interested in this girl or that we're dating?

21/2 + 7 is 17.5 so if she was born july or later go hogwild on that pussy

# ? Jul 10, 2015 11:10

Dans Macabre: Apr 24, 2004

Jonad posted:

21/2 + 7 is 17.5 so if she was born july or later go hogwild on that pussy

Your entire age + 1 supremacy

# ? Jul 10, 2015 13:36

neutral milf hotel: Oct 9, 2001; by Fluffdaddy

MALE SHOEGAZE posted:

one of my favorite things about reddit [...]

mods ban this sick gently caress

# ? Jul 10, 2015 15:55

atomicthumbs: Dec 26, 2010; We're in the business of extending man's senses.

ellen pao resigned and i first heard about it on the news, on the radio, while driving

the internet is getting too big for its britches

# ? Jul 10, 2015 22:35

Enderzero: Jun 19, 2001; The snowflake button makes it
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That was quick but the corporate agenda being pushed flew in the face of the Reddit community. Power to the people!

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I think most people just let out a sigh of relief.

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Community's have power.

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She thought she could enforce her agenda onto an online community and it would all go well. Results as expected by anyone who has ever been part or observed an online community.

her agenda

uh, making money as a corporation? not allowing harrassment boards to stick around?

this is hacker news btw. i know i let out a huge sigh of relief about executive changes at a corporate owned message board.

# ? Jul 10, 2015 22:39

Luigi Thirty: Apr 30, 2006; Emergency confection port.

Enderzero posted:

her agenda

uh, making money as a corporation? not allowing harrassment boards to stick around?

this is hacker news btw. i know i let out a huge sigh of relief about executive changes at a corporate owned message board.

1) she deleted fatpeoplehate and other irl harassment subreddits
2) she's a FEMALE so she's a FEMINIST WHO WANTS TO KILL REDDIT

# ? Jul 10, 2015 22:44

Bloody: Mar 3, 2013

wish she'd killed reddit

# ? Jul 10, 2015 22:45

Boxturret: Oct 3, 2013; Don't ask me about Sonic the Hedgehog diaper fetish

Bloody posted:

wish she'd killed reddit

# ? Jul 10, 2015 22:46

leftist heap: Feb 28, 2013; Fun Shoe

don't forget her failed, spurious lawsuit.

# ? Jul 10, 2015 22:48

DONT THREAD ON ME: Oct 1, 2002; by Nyc_Tattoo; Floss Finder

Bloody posted:

wish she'd killed reddit

# ? Jul 10, 2015 22:49

neutral milf hotel: Oct 9, 2001; by Fluffdaddy

Bloody posted:

wish she'd killed reddit

with her poison womb, right guyz :classiclol:

# ? Jul 10, 2015 22:49

Enderzero: Jun 19, 2001; The snowflake button makes it
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I don't think reddit the organization really understands what they have going there. it was a horrible idea to have a woman be their ceo because their userbase is so incredibly toxic, it was always going to end up this way.

# ? Jul 10, 2015 22:49

Enderzero: Jun 19, 2001; The snowflake button makes it
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>Sam Altman, a member of Reddit�s board, said he personally appreciated Ms. Pao�s efforts during her two years working at the start-up. �Ellen has done a phenomenal job, especially in the last few months,� he said.

This is clearly nonsense, otherwise there wouldn't have been a grassroots campaign to remove Ellen Pao from her role.
If Sam Altman honestly believes that Ellen did a "phenomenal" job than he should reconsider his own position as President of YCombinator.

master race hacker news contributors unable to understand basic nature of press releases, news and weather at 11

# ? Jul 10, 2015 22:51

Lain Iwakura: Aug 5, 2004; The body exists only to verify one's own existence.; Taco Defender

reddit finally has the ceo it deserves

a cisgendered white male

in all fairness he was a co-founder so lol

# ? Jul 10, 2015 22:51

quiggy: Aug 7, 2010; [in Russian] Oof.

Bloody posted:

wish she'd killed reddit

# ? Jul 10, 2015 22:52

Cold on a Cob: Feb 6, 2006; i've seen so much, i'm going blind
and i'm brain dead virtually; College Slice

i hope they relax the rules and a bunch of hate subs get more attention and ad revenue drops in the toilet

# ? Jul 10, 2015 22:53

DONT THREAD ON ME: Oct 1, 2002; by Nyc_Tattoo; Floss Finder

Cold on a Cob posted:

i hope they relax the rules and a bunch of hate subs get more attention and ad revenue drops in the toilet

i hope they make the rules more and more strict while redditors congratulation the ceo on being a defender of free speech

# ? Jul 10, 2015 22:57

Tatsujin: Apr 26, 2004; EVERYONE EXCEPT THE HOT WOMEN

whew guys, the reign of tyranny is over! Back to harrassing people IRL with impunity *high-five*

# ? Jul 10, 2015 22:58

leftist heap: Feb 28, 2013; Fun Shoe

In what way can reddit still be described as a startup??

# ? Jul 10, 2015 22:58

jony neuemonic: Nov 13, 2009

it sucks and is full of manchildren. sounds about right to me.

# ? Jul 10, 2015 22:59

leftist heap: Feb 28, 2013; Fun Shoe

Forcing a woman CEO out because she made an utterly modest attempt at curbing harassment is a real feather in your cap tho.

# ? Jul 10, 2015 23:00

leftist heap: Feb 28, 2013; Fun Shoe

jony neuemonic posted:

it sucks and is full of manchildren. sounds about right to me.

Plus effectively zero diversity so yeah I see your point.

# ? Jul 10, 2015 23:00

DONT THREAD ON ME: Oct 1, 2002; by Nyc_Tattoo; Floss Finder

rrrrrrrrrrrt posted:

Forcing a woman CEO out because she made an utterly modest attempt at curbing harassment is a real feather in your cap tho.

that's a wierd way to spell 'triump of free speech'

# ? Jul 10, 2015 23:01

qirex: Feb 15, 2001

woohoo we're too toxic to monetize!
*servers shut down*
who could have forseen this outcome???

# ? Jul 10, 2015 23:02

Ator: Oct 1, 2005

who cares about reddit?

let's wield this new power and kick out every ceo we don't like

# ? Jul 10, 2015 23:04

Cold on a Cob: Feb 6, 2006; i've seen so much, i'm going blind
and i'm brain dead virtually; College Slice

qirex posted:

woohoo we're too toxic to monetize!
*servers shut down*
who could have forseen this outcome???

lol exactly, this is what i want

# ? Jul 10, 2015 23:04

Boxturret: Oct 3, 2013; Don't ask me about Sonic the Hedgehog diaper fetish

qirex posted:

woohoo we're too toxic to monetize!

don't worry, they can just make a separate instance for all that stuff

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[�]yishan 4 points 13 hours ago
I should probably chime in with some details.

By my recollection, we only had one conversation about (this doesn't dampen my support for the idea, just want to outline how much we actually were able to to discuss/plan) it, and in my mind it did not necessarily involve any usage of the blockchain. However, I can see if /u/ryancarnated had extended the idea in the meantime.

My implementation concept was to retrofit the existing open-source distributions of the reddit codebase so that:

1) People wishing to bring up an instance of reddit could do so easily. The currently default settings of the reddit codebase make it pretty hard to get it running, mostly because it's optimized for reddit's at-scale setup. We'd package it up with some nice default settings and how-to guides so that little Aiden could install it on his dorm computer. Call each of these separate installations of reddit an "instance."

2) Create an open "inter-reddit protocol" similar to how USENET works, where each installation of reddit could publish the subreddits it was hosting (posts, comments, votes) to other instances of reddit.

Then, the administrators of each reddit instance could decide to "subscribe" to any set or subset of subreddits hosted on other installations of reddit. These subreddits would then be imported into that instance for the readership of that subreddit to subscribe to.

The idea is that if you had your account on reddit on "reddit prime" or "reddit voat" or "reddit lots-of-questionable-porn" you could create a frontpage consisting of subreddits from that home instance of reddit, mixing in subreddits from any of the instances that the admins of that instance had decided to import from.

Due to the asynchronous nature of posting, commenting, and even voting (a lag in counting votes is ok), all of these operations could just be re-transmitted back to the original hosting instance, computed, and rebroadcast out to all subscribing reddits - you could dynamically batch them depending on load and ambient throughput conditions.

Advantages would include making it so that every reddit instance need only conform to the inter-reddit protocol; they could experiment with different sets of features (or even ranking algorithms - since they are computed on the fly from raw vote totals, the only things which are transmitted) without requiring that the entire universe of reddits adopt them.

While it would not be utterly decentralized, I believe that allowing for multiple "domains" of hosted reddit instances would be sufficiently federated to make it impossible to ever completely destroy reddit - let's call this Reddit with a capital-R. Subreddits who found themselves unwelcome on one host could migrate to another one (or be exiled to another one, if they were bringing down powerful forces that its host could not resist), while still making themselves available to whichever other installations wanted to import them. You could host reddit instances that were political sensitive/dangerous in Iceland or whereever they needed to be to be safe from those whom they were pissing off. It would also allow the broader universe of many-reddits to collectively vote on which subreddits to shun, by not importing them, yet not outright banning them. In essence, this would turn reddit into a new kind of open internet protocol, instead of being one company.

This would solve two key problems at once: make Reddit and its community immune to censorship by powerful forces, and allow individual reddits to decline to host subreddits they found objectionable without having ban them, i.e. exile instead of execution.

I actually discussed this a bit with /u/alienth and /u/spladug, but it was only in the context of long-term plans. Other more immediate priorities like moving to our own datacenter (right now reddit is inherently pwned by being Amazon-hosted) were more pressing, and we needed much more engineering capacity to undertake the project anyway.
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# ? Jul 10, 2015 23:05

Condiv: May 7, 2008; Sorry to undo the effort of paying a domestic abuser $10 to own this poster, but I am going to lose my dang mind if I keep seeing multiple posters who appear to be Baloogan.

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qirex posted:

woohoo we're too toxic to monetize!
*servers shut down*
who could have forseen this outcome???

yeah that's p much how i see this ending. now any attempts to reign these shithead racist pedophilic pieces of nazi filth in will be met with 1000x the vitriol and hatred cause hey, they made one ceo resign cause of her "terrible management" so they can fire anyone. reddit's literally going to turn into a valueless swamp consisting of nothing but the very worst aspects of humanity, a literal internet sodom

# ? Jul 10, 2015 23:06

Boxturret: Oct 3, 2013; Don't ask me about Sonic the Hedgehog diaper fetish

Condiv posted:

yeah that's p much how i see this ending. now any attempts to reign these shithead racist pedophilic pieces of nazi filth in will be met with 1000x the vitriol and hatred cause hey, they made one ceo resign cause of her "terrible management" so they can fire anyone. reddit's literally going to turn into a valueless swamp consisting of nothing but the very worst aspects of humanity, a literal internet sodom

"turn into"

# ? Jul 10, 2015 23:08

qirex: Feb 15, 2001

Condiv posted:

yeah that's p much how i see this ending. now any attempts to reign these shithead racist pedophilic pieces of nazi filth in will be met with 1000x the vitriol and hatred cause hey, they made one ceo resign cause of her "terrible management" so they can fire anyone. reddit's literally going to turn into a valueless swamp consisting of nothing but the very worst aspects of humanity, a literal internet sodom

prolly bad news for voat who was counting on owning that market

# ? Jul 10, 2015 23:08

jony neuemonic: Nov 13, 2009

Condiv posted:

yeah that's p much how i see this ending. now any attempts to reign these shithead racist pedophilic pieces of nazi filth in will be met with 1000x the vitriol and hatred cause hey, they made one ceo resign cause of her "terrible management" so they can fire anyone. reddit's literally going to turn into a valueless swamp consisting of nothing but the very worst aspects of humanity, a literal internet sodom

this will differ from today's reddit in the following ways:

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# ? Jul 10, 2015 23:08

Enderzero: Jun 19, 2001; The snowflake button makes it
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qirex posted:

prolly bad news for voat who was counting on owning that market

is voat even up right now

# ? Jul 10, 2015 23:15

ryde: Sep 9, 2011; God I love young girls

qirex posted:

prolly bad news for voat who was counting on owning that market

Apparently voat users were getting pissed off at the reddit users joining.

# ? Jul 10, 2015 23:15

qirex: Feb 15, 2001

idk if anyone here ever used tribe but it was pretty big for a while but when the company tried to start making money they cracked down on all the drugs, sex and nudity stuff and the users rebelled, then eventually left and now it's basically a ghost town

# ? Jul 10, 2015 23:19

moron izzard: Nov 17, 2006; Grimey Drawer

What's up with sorta popular internet fat dude vloggers defending fph. Both that boogie guy and a regular on TWiT gave Real Brave defenses of people harassing others over the Internet.

# ? Jul 11, 2015 00:18

moron izzard: Nov 17, 2006; Grimey Drawer

ryde posted:

Apparently voat users were getting pissed off at the reddit users joining.

Half the posts I saw on voat were welcoming people from reddit (just like when digg was imploding and everyone was migrating to reddit)

# ? Jul 11, 2015 00:19

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DONT THREAD ON ME: Oct 1, 2002; by Nyc_Tattoo; Floss Finder

A Yolo Wizard posted:

What's up with sorta popular internet fat dude vloggers defending fph. Both that boogie guy and a regular on TWiT gave Real Brave defenses of people harassing others over the Internet.

because it keeps fat women below them in the social hierarchy, which means they still have a chance of getting with a decent 6-7 figure

# ? Jul 11, 2015 00:21

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