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I love this subreddit but wouldn't visit a separate website.

by jf22 8y ago

toomuchtodo 8y ago
I'm sure people who used to use Slashdot and Digg thought the same thing. I enjoy being a bystander to efforts to break free from platforms like Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, etc; Stackoverflow, for example, pushes their data dumps into the Internet Archive [1] and that data will never be locked up. Even if unsuccessful, efforts to break free of closed platforms are necessary, otherwise we're burning up untold amounts of human effort for data that will be lost to time in the name of VC and shareholder profits. [1] https://archive.org/details/stackexchange https://archive.org/details/stackexchange
- ryacko 8y ago
  I wonder if rss will allow for custom homepages... ever. https://www.reddit.com/wiki/rss https://www.reddit.com/wiki/rss
benatkin 8y ago
I don't like the subreddit but if I did, I would be interested in participating in their community on a separate website. To each their own, I guess. Why I don't like it: a big part of it is people taking troll posts seriously. The third post down on changeaview.com when I visited it is "To be transgender or to condone it is nothing short of a lie". Then the author goes through a bunch of talking points. They're not there to give people a fair chance to change their view but to get people to read their garbage. Still, people argue posts like these and get to feel good about it, when they're really just helping to provide attention to trolls.
- detcader 8y ago
  I'm interested in how this taxonomy of discussion works... can you define the lines between what is "fair" discussion, "talking points" "trolling" and "garbage"? Like, where does criticism of Israeli military aggression against Palestinians fall? If that's an easy one, what about Ilhan Omar's views on the government's influence in geopolitical affairs? Whatever your answers, would many people not disagree?
  - r00fus 8y ago
    It’s mainly diagnosed on repetition of talking points. If it sounds like astroturfed content then it’s likely to be so, whether intentional or not.

I love this subreddit but wouldn't visit a separate website.

by jf22 8y ago

I love this subreddit but wouldn't visit a separate website.

I'm sure people who used to use Slashdot and Digg thought the same thing. I enjoy being a bystander to efforts to break free from platforms like Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, etc; Stackoverflow, for example, pushes their data dumps into the Internet Archive [1] and that data will never be locked up. Even if unsuccessful, efforts to break free of closed platforms are necessary, otherwise we're burning up untold amounts of human effort for data that will be lost to time in the name of VC and shareholder profits. [1] https://archive.org/details/stackexchange https://archive.org/details/stackexchange

ryacko 8y ago
I wonder if rss will allow for custom homepages... ever. https://www.reddit.com/wiki/rss https://www.reddit.com/wiki/rss

benatkin 8y ago

I don't like the subreddit but if I did, I would be interested in participating in their community on a separate website. To each their own, I guess. Why I don't like it: a big part of it is people taking troll posts seriously. The third post down on changeaview.com when I visited it is "To be transgender or to condone it is nothing short of a lie". Then the author goes through a bunch of talking points. They're not there to give people a fair chance to change their view but to get people to read their garbage. Still, people argue posts like these and get to feel good about it, when they're really just helping to provide attention to trolls.

detcader 8y ago
I'm interested in how this taxonomy of discussion works... can you define the lines between what is "fair" discussion, "talking points" "trolling" and "garbage"? Like, where does criticism of Israeli military aggression against Palestinians fall? If that's an easy one, what about Ilhan Omar's views on the government's influence in geopolitical affairs? Whatever your answers, would many people not disagree?
- r00fus 8y ago
  It’s mainly diagnosed on repetition of talking points. If it sounds like astroturfed content then it’s likely to be so, whether intentional or not.