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I don't want to register zillions of forums and manage my passwords. I contribute to hundreds of subreddits. If reddit dies I'll find a replacement like reddit

I don't want to register zillions of forums and manage my passwords. I contribute to hundreds of subreddits. If reddit dies I'll find a replacement like reddit and move on.

ApolloFortyNine 6y ago
A "log in with Google/Apple/Github/whatever" fixes that issue easily enough.
- gnulinux 6y ago
  And most websites implement that? I like r/factorio on reddit. Factorio official forums require me to register with a username, email and password. I simply don't want to do that, and will not do that. I'd much rather not engage with factorio content than register a forum for 100s and 100s of things I'm interested in.
- tandr 6y ago
  I think it just shifts it to Google/Apple/Github/whatever "owns" id management.
CM30 6y ago
This is why an ActivityPub based, federated forum system might be the future here. Have it so you can join the network once, and carry the same username to any other site on the network without anything resembling a signup process. Perhaps you could even have a choice of aggregators which then displayed content from all those sites in one place, or let you view a combined karma score or post count or whatever too. That'd fix most of Reddit's issues and then some.
serf 6y ago
>I don't want to register zillions of forums and manage my passwords. and I don't especially want the admins of any one site to be able to erase my entire existence off the net on a whim. single/token login from known net authority agents is common. I'd rather embrace that kind of thing than the idea that any one site should be our de facto forum and communications standard. I was reminded of this recently when a personal favorite BB forum disappeared , taking years and years of niche automotive data with it. Data that was rare from the get-go, and un-replaceable now. I'd rather decentralize my 'data-stores'. Reddit will disappear one day, and it's up to them to be a good actor towards the archival group, providing data bandwidth during a time when investors have become disinterested, and paying the light bill is near impossible. I wouldn't count on that. Keep archives, repeat information elsewhere , and most importantly : don't embrace adding and relying on centralized structure where doing so inherently adds weakness and fallibility.
- gnulinux 6y ago
  I don't think any "irreplacable" data or conversation should be on reddit. If I lose my conversations about funny cats, or factorio, or why I love a programming language, I'm not gonna lose any sleep over it. I agree with you for critical stuff, I don't think they belong to reddit. But please understand that for consumers like me, reddit is an incredibly convenient social media. I can login now and spend hours talking about hundreds of different things. There is no way in hell I'll be able to register to so many different forums and not get frustrated.
- jodrellblank 6y ago
  > “Reddit will disappear one day, and it's up to them to be a good actor towards the archival group, providing data bandwidth during a time when” Reddit’s content is already dumped and cloned in near-real-time. https://pushshift.io/ https://pushshift.io/

I don't want to register zillions of forums and manage my passwords. I contribute to hundreds of subreddits. If reddit dies I'll find a replacement like reddit and move on.

ApolloFortyNine 6y ago

A "log in with Google/Apple/Github/whatever" fixes that issue easily enough.

gnulinux 6y ago
And most websites implement that? I like r/factorio on reddit. Factorio official forums require me to register with a username, email and password. I simply don't want to do that, and will not do that. I'd much rather not engage with factorio content than register a forum for 100s and 100s of things I'm interested in.
tandr 6y ago
I think it just shifts it to Google/Apple/Github/whatever "owns" id management.

CM30 6y ago

This is why an ActivityPub based, federated forum system might be the future here. Have it so you can join the network once, and carry the same username to any other site on the network without anything resembling a signup process. Perhaps you could even have a choice of aggregators which then displayed content from all those sites in one place, or let you view a combined karma score or post count or whatever too. That'd fix most of Reddit's issues and then some.

serf 6y ago

>I don't want to register zillions of forums and manage my passwords. and I don't especially want the admins of any one site to be able to erase my entire existence off the net on a whim. single/token login from known net authority agents is common. I'd rather embrace that kind of thing than the idea that any one site should be our de facto forum and communications standard. I was reminded of this recently when a personal favorite BB forum disappeared , taking years and years of niche automotive data with it. Data that was rare from the get-go, and un-replaceable now. I'd rather decentralize my 'data-stores'. Reddit will disappear one day, and it's up to them to be a good actor towards the archival group, providing data bandwidth during a time when investors have become disinterested, and paying the light bill is near impossible. I wouldn't count on that. Keep archives, repeat information elsewhere , and most importantly : don't embrace adding and relying on centralized structure where doing so inherently adds weakness and fallibility.

gnulinux 6y ago
I don't think any "irreplacable" data or conversation should be on reddit. If I lose my conversations about funny cats, or factorio, or why I love a programming language, I'm not gonna lose any sleep over it. I agree with you for critical stuff, I don't think they belong to reddit. But please understand that for consumers like me, reddit is an incredibly convenient social media. I can login now and spend hours talking about hundreds of different things. There is no way in hell I'll be able to register to so many different forums and not get frustrated.
jodrellblank 6y ago
> “Reddit will disappear one day, and it's up to them to be a good actor towards the archival group, providing data bandwidth during a time when” Reddit’s content is already dumped and cloned in near-real-time. https://pushshift.io/ https://pushshift.io/