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ernest, 10 months ago

why not both gif

Madison_rogue, 10 months ago

I wonder when buying these 3rd party apps as acquisitions, if Reddit brought along their dev(s) in the process. It sounds like they didn't, which would be so shortsighted. Because what it seems is that once Reddit had these programs in their possession, they didn't know what to do with them, or how to integrate them into their own source code...at least with Spell this seems to be the case. I have no idea about Alien Blue, which I had used at one point prior to using Reddit's own mobile app. All they had to do with Alien Blue is rebrand...why didn't they?

How do you employ nearly 2,000 people. an army of unpaid moderators, and not come up with proper tools to navigate your own program, or find profitability off its user data? I think that Huffman has had no plan, leads a top-heavy organization, has been coasting along the company putting out day-to-day fires, and now he's scrambling to quickly find something profitable to show his investors.

There are a lot of things that don't make sense at the core of Reddit, because Google, Chat AI, and ad revenue are the places to make a profit...not API usage from 3rd party apps. I watched a really great video of the history of D&D last night on Nebula, and wow talk about lessons that Reddit could learn about 3rd party contributors.

(I'm going to link the video, but you need a subscription to Nebula and/or Curiosity Stream to view it). TL;DW summary: D&D works best as a business when it collaborates with 3rd party contributors and its fans.

Shocked Pikachu face there...

flybynightpotato, 11 months ago

Exactly what not to say to the internet for $500, Alex.

StaticBoredom, 11 months ago

It just warms but icy black heart when (former) Redditors take action on important issues and results are achieved. For me, that’s what the site was really about.

My hope with the current protests is that Reddit suffers severe consequences. Not only because “fuck spez,” but also because the internet has become one huge corporate orgy, and actual humans should at least be allowed to occupy a corner of it without having to deal with their profiteering bullshit.

But for this we will have to suffer some minor inconveniences, and we must do so not only willingly, but joyfully, in the knowledge that at least we are headed in the right direction away from a homogenized internet.

All credit to @ernest and other devs, but feel free to pat yourselves on the back for being willing to try something new and give up something old. That’s not always easy, but things that are always easy are rarely deeply satisfying.

MothrOfChrst, 11 months ago

All of this! Plus, from my perspective anyway, this has given a lot of people the chance to get their feet wet with other platforms and ecosystems.

While it may not be a majority, I do believe there will be well seasoned users that see how the whole thing was handled by Reddit, and see the potential in these other avenues, and stay in those new places instead.

So far, I would say I'm one of those users. After a decade on Reddit and decline in quality, I'm certainly happy to call a new platform home and grow with it.

m-p-3, 11 months ago

IMO the way to go is to slowly transition, and avoid systems, hardware and softwares that depends on the cloud as much as possible. If you can, try to stick to one open standard and don't deviate unless you have absolutely no choice.

You should be able to disconnect the Internet and control everything locally on your home wireless network. If you can't, then you don't own it.

Sure, you can make some automation rely on some weather services (OpenWeatherMap), but you could go one step further and deploy your own weather station on your property (ie: attached to the shed, etc). That way even if the Internet goes out, you can still automate based on local data.

ernest, 11 months ago

I noticed, but it's not me... not yet. The traffic simply dropped to an acceptable level. I'm working on maintaining this state permanently, and I think I'm on the right track. I want to do it really well and make use of the new possibilities we have now. In the meantime, I'm organizing the git/issues and will be on Matrix where we resolve certain technical matters. But I'll be back here soon and will tell you everything :)

Good morning, everyone!

Arthur, 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago)

I’ve heard a few namely Ivory, Mona, Mammoth, Ice Cube, Trunks, couple others…. I used Ivory for a while but switched to Mona when they started supporting following other servers. They seem to roll out features faster than Ivory. I really like the feel of both apps but I personally use Mona. I had already bought Spring before so I got a discount buying pro.

EDIT: I forgot to include phanpy! It’s a web client but I added it to my Home Screen as a web app. I really like how all the threads are displayed on there. I use this sometimes when not using Mona. Phanpy makes it easier to get through threads and boosts on my home feed