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imho The moderation on Reddit isn't what people think it is. The largest subreddits are modded by the same 5-6 people, and then you have the literal Nazi mods who took over things like /r/canada. Even the /antiwrok mod they interviewed on Fox basically manipulated the system to get his mod rights. Hobby Subreddits have become littered with "How do I do $BasicThing" or "which hard drive brand will play back my animes best?" You CANNOT escape any political posts as they will always leak into a sub. /r/Genx was doing OK with people posting memes, videos, just fun stuff. Then the "Man....you can't say THAT anymore" posts came in and it just turned into....Reddit.
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Thoughtless posted:I don't understand why every techbro CEO suddenly decided to destroy their websites. Elmo set the standard with Twitter, then Imgur, Reddit, Twitch etc all saw that and went "well gently caress making money, we also prefer... memes"? There's always money in name recognition. Napster and RealPlayer are still products and services you can buy in TYOOL 2023. Tech is always about "innovation", which is to say that investors and stock holders want growth, not just a steady stream of revenue. That's why companies start coming up with poo poo like selling ads, VR goggles, rings, headbands and whatever else no one asked for because its profit. I honestly think it will eventually just become an "everything app" where it's messaging + shopping + videos + memes + sharing kind of thing and make good ad revenue.
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Jun 12, 2023 21:16
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GolfHole posted:tech sites never made money to begin with Amazon was famous for never turning a profit. Speaking of tech imploding, I predict Wal-Mart and Amazon merge in the next 5 years. Investors thought Bezos was spending too much and the new CEO is looking at what they can do for savings. They aren't exactly winning the streaming wars and their current CEO thinks Alexa devices are "glorified alarm clocks".
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Jun 12, 2023 21:27
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Phat Phingers posted:A part of me is happy because some unsufferable Reddit mods may disappear, but another part of me is unhappy because Reddit is actually a decent site (majority of the time) and a LOT of good content & subs may go missing. About 10-12 years ago it was the main draw to the site. It finally was taken down when Goons started organizing a campaign on these here forums to get press releases out. Days after that the Anderson Cooper story broke.
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Jun 12, 2023 22:39
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Gringo Heisenberg posted:you know when people get angry at whatever new CoD is coming out and all say they're going to boycott it, only to all be playing it 2 days later? That's what's happening with reddit /r/videos Mods said they will remain dark for as long as it takes. But even they admit they'll likely just have their accounts suspended and it'll be back.
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Jun 13, 2023 00:00
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The Bananana posted:Lol, Did you see the part where he was telling employees to not wear reddit swag in public because... Lemon Trees posted:Redditors are some of the worst people I've ever had the pleasure I've meeting. Every one of them has been incredibly unpleasant. ...I guess some redditors are irl mad about this. Remember when Reddit fired an intern/employee that assisted with the AMAs? I can't even remember but you'd thought Conde Nast threw this woman out a 48 story window. I can't even remember what Ellen Pao did but they called her names for months.
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Jun 14, 2023 00:03
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Szechwan posted:What happened to askhistorians? It was one of the few well-run subs /r/ObscureMedia/ is cool and I hope it comes back. Bonzo fucked around with this message at 12:35 on Jun 15, 2023 |
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Jun 15, 2023 12:22
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Didn't we used to have a buddy system for newbs?
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Jun 15, 2023 23:21
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/r/NewYorksHottestClub/ is a good sub sometimes. Toxic Mental posted:
I've never had a good interaction with a reddit mod, so I am quite enjoying them seeing being treated as lovely as they've treated the community.
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Jun 18, 2023 14:57
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This guy has an entire series of these https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdyHX8K1yfY
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Jun 18, 2023 15:03
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Grassy Knowles posted:I’m not gonna die of drugs like Bob Dylan dad You mean Uncle Robert?
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Jun 18, 2023 22:23
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FlapYoJacks posted:AOL keywords were an amazing concept and they were so far ahead of their time they failed. Impossibly Perfect Sphere posted:what if you typed something into a search box and it brought you to the exact item you asked for immediately? could you imagine that? cause nobody at google has held that thought in their heads for a least a decade. Remember this is mid-late 1990s and people had no idea there was this whole other internet outside of the AOL app. Most people only had an AOL connection so even if they fired up IE they would have only gotten errors. Google wasn't around and SEO was barely a thing, so you would watch the Today Show and they'd tell me to go to AOL Keyword: ACME and it was easier than trying to get people to type in [url]HTTP://[/url] or do go look at the Internet Yellow pages at the library
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Jun 19, 2023 17:29
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Internet Old One posted:If they’re not self hosting a ton then they need to fire spez. Also I expect they’re probably 100% on AWS. They'll be running on whatever platform Conde Nast uses. Larger companies will usually negotiate their AWS/Azure bills and with reduced API hits they'll save quite a bit this way vs running their own Cloud or data center.
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Jun 20, 2023 22:03
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Cousin Todd posted:SmartTube is ad free but third party and likely to be killed soon if trends hold I imagine. They can't kill an app if you sideload it.
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Jul 3, 2023 18:39
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madattheinternet posted:Oh man do you guys remember goon rushes? Internet infrastructure used to be so primitive that one forum full of frustrated perpetually single zit necks could crash an entire website just by following links. Those were the times… we were kings! I remember when we all got into a DDOS fight with eBaumsworld, but I don't recall the details. This doesn't seem like the whole story. https://forums.somethingawful.com/dictionary.php?act=3&topicid=1302 I remember wget commands to spam eBuam's server were posted in GBS
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Grassy Knowles posted:There is a lot of history that we probably need to revisit, but I don’t think we need to rewrite the history of loving ebaum. Eric Baumann was, at the time, an unapologetically worse person than lowtax and the legacy of his work is seen in such things as fuckjerry and ifunny. Right. I'm starting to remember more details. Something about eBaum would host content with the watermark cropped off. So I suppose lots of Photoshop thread content went there. Where they also maybe hotlinking? Jesus...remember when hotlinking was a thing?
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Jul 5, 2023 18:14
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Do you think Drew Curtis' Fark.com is getting any new sign ups?
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Jul 5, 2023 21:56
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Weird Al was the artist for any parody song.
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All prank calls were Jerky Boys, even ones with Roy J Mercer
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Jul 7, 2023 21:58
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Wasn't the Love Shack/Toxic mashup a goon creation?
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Khanstant posted:some of the biggest internet services are such ubiquitous communication tools. some lovely company won the race XX years ago and becomes the main place for that type of communication, but in their quest to make money from it they ruin it. maybe this sort of poo poo isn't profitable and doesn't need to be. it serves a great utility to people, so it should probably just be a utility. If usenet was easier to use, I could see it being more popular. No one can own it since it's an internet protocol and there are decades of posts on there. All in threaded, searchable groups. These days I don't know if anyone actually has discussions as it's just piracy and porn.
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In 1996 I accidentally posted an image in a text only group that was for fans of The X-Files. Someone actually reported me to my ISP. Imagine if someone emailed abuse@verizon.com and reported you for shitposting on a forum. Then again, downloading an image on a 28k or 14.4 modem back then would have cost you some hours. The ISP I was using a the time was run by a friend of mine so he just laughed and then made fun of me for being an X-files fan
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Deep Glove Bruno posted:aja is also a weird case as guys who install their own private mains transformers to their house to get better quality electricity for their colossal audiophile bass tomb (surprise!) are also not actually into music and love to test their new $30K cabling with aja because they can't think of any other music to put on This is not an exaggeration. I spent a few months working for one of those AV companies that runs sound and video systems for conventions at hotels. Our boss threw a BBQ one day and invited us over. He has this big system with a really over priced CD player (this was 1995ish) and just kept talking and talking about the album as it was playing and all the specs on his system and all the tweaking he'd done it make it sound whatever.
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PortobelloPirate posted:How do you feel about the recent push for more walkable cities? Do you think this is a fad or something that can actually gain some traction? You get about 2 replies in before someone shouts "NIMBYS!!!!!!" and then the mods lock the thread due to threats.
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UnfortunateSexFart posted:I was one of the few who thought I could tolerate the official app but the lack of ability to turn off reply notifications like rif makes me regret posting anything once the Reddit know-it-alls show up. Currently being told it's impossible to feel cold through double pane windows while freezing my rear end off in southern hemisphere winter. lol ask them to explain windows in planes
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Lick Joe posted:The extra Alanis Morissetty part of the whole thing is that Reddit figured out a way to transform their biggest haters into an emergency boost for their July engagement numbers, some of which I suspect were not looking great. That's called a Goon Rush, something else we invented.
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Just  if any subreddit tries to "go dark" again to protest anything.
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