Post AWZAbA2QolA4HNHE48 by Sternness3985@mastodon.social
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(DIR) Post #AWYyuxG4qNgiz7Kc0u by drahardja@sfba.social
2023-06-10T22:59:14Z
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The #reddit blackout is now nearing 3500 subreddits which will take themselves private on Monday. From what I can gather, some will shut down for a few days, while others will remain private until Reddit reverses its decision to kill off 3rd party clients with exorbitant API charges.Of course Reddit won’t back off its decision—it’s quite likely that killing 3rd party clients is exactly what they want to do to prepare for IPO. If subreddit mods are true to their word, then those subreddits are basically dead.
(DIR) Post #AWYz1PbAOAEMcMH6Q4 by me@catgirl.is
2023-06-10T23:13:55Z
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@drahardja if r/gaming and other big subreddits shut down for good (e.g. go private) do we think Reddit will take back the names; or an even worse scenario they remove the entire mod team and reopen the subreddits with all the same content. Could they be worse and add controls to prevent edits/deletes of content older than 90 days to prevent protest deletes?
(DIR) Post #AWZ0V2byWBQbxzLSts by drahardja@sfba.social
2023-06-10T23:30:28Z
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@me If Reddit does do an eminent-domain and reclaim shut-down subreddits with highly searchable names (r/gaming would certainly fit the bill), and replace mods with compliant company yes-people, I think there will be a second wave of revolt and old-time redditors passionate about the site will leave in droves.But the question is whether there will be enough new or casual redditors who will continue to replace the crowd that’s leaving. My guess is YES. Most redditors are consumers, and they don’t really care about how the site is run. I think reddit would be willing to pay for content creation and moderation in strategic subreddits (like r/ama has been run), so these reclaimed subreddits will work fine as a consumable resaurce.That’s part of why I think the voluntary shutdown will be ineffective. The numbers won’t work in their favor, and Reddit will hunker down and barrel through until it gets to IPO and beyond.
(DIR) Post #AWZ1iGT2PhXwet2BUm by sotolf@social.linux.pizza
2023-06-10T23:42:09Z
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@drahardja @me well, they will probably have inexperienced mods working with very reduced tools in comparison to what they have now, so the quality will sink like a rock, and those subs weren't that good in the first place, there is a limit to how many people are willing/able to mod when they throw us out.
(DIR) Post #AWZ1nxffD8OO6GekgS by jacobrogers256@tech.lgbt
2023-06-10T23:32:03Z
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@drahardja @me we should fork 2017 reddit
(DIR) Post #AWZ1nynr0AXPbxUo5Y by me@catgirl.is
2023-06-10T23:45:07Z
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@jacobrogers256 @drahardja i might be interested in building a Reddit clone but if I was able to spend the time I would 100% be using Go for the backend. Not sure about frontend and would need help with that haha.
(DIR) Post #AWZ1oVXLIZwF8J1aQy by drahardja@sfba.social
2023-06-10T23:35:06Z
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@jacobrogers256 @me https://kbin.pub/en
(DIR) Post #AWZ1v8Knxj7PCRJsS8 by jacobrogers256@tech.lgbt
2023-06-10T23:46:23Z
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@me @drahardja I found this fork of reddit. It's used by a far right hellsite but we can dust it off and host a gay left wing reddit server as a fuck you to the original creator.https://github.com/libertysoft3/saidit
(DIR) Post #AWZ2V8e8HSnIajWpSS by me@catgirl.is
2023-06-10T23:52:55Z
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@jacobrogers256 @drahardja that's cool and all but I'd prefer to make a Go backend. Open to suggestions on the front end though. I don't like using Python for web apps and use Go so much as work I'd prefer to use it as I can do stuff more quickly.
(DIR) Post #AWZ9rjlNf2Ivl1dqWu by bowreality@mstdn.ca
2023-06-11T01:15:23Z
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@me @drahardja That’s my guess. Reddit won’t just accept that
(DIR) Post #AWZAbA2QolA4HNHE48 by Sternness3985@mastodon.social
2023-06-11T01:23:36Z
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@me @drahardja There is president for Reddit replacing the modteams if mods try to private subreddits. Reddit will just find other people to replace them. The subs will be worse, but not worse enough that it'll kill the site.
(DIR) Post #AWZElrm3SmkUdUydRw by mcspadden@mastodon.social
2023-06-11T02:10:23Z
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@me thoughts on Go vs FastAPI in this use case? Assuming a reddit clone isn’t CPU bounded and just request heavy
(DIR) Post #AWZFHLUr0OplnPwSe0 by me@catgirl.is
2023-06-11T02:16:05Z
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@mcspadden It's I/O bound as you're reading and writing to some data source. I haven't used FastAPI. But I use Go a lot of work so any open source work or blogging I do is in and about Go.