witchesindublin

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by witchesindublin 3y ago
I think one of the key differences is how you socialise varies from country to country, but just that a lot of the internet is dominated by Americans and people assume that "they are unfriendly" or "they are friendly". T
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by witchesindublin 3y ago
Digital nomads are a major problem in several countries including most of South East Asia and Portugal, and major cities in these regions are having inflated prices due to digital nomads.
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by witchesindublin 3y ago
For Indians I doubt that there is a major difference really in how they are treated as IT workers or as digital nomads. "I work in the IT industry" "That is such a normal thing!"
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Breaking up is hard to do: Decoupling the West from China(seattletimes.com)
4 points by witchesindublin 3y ago|0 comments
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by witchesindublin 3y ago
How else do you police the city against BLM riots then? If the police do not crackdown on loopholes then the riots will keep happening.
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by witchesindublin 3y ago
Why is the news section showing me a palate of DeutcheWelle and AlJazeera??? But I like the simplicity of older webpages sometimes. Overengineering websites such as Reddit is useless beyond testing out new ideas.
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‘People rot from the inside out’: lethal xylazine deepens the US drug crisis(ft.com)
7 points by witchesindublin 3y ago|2 comments
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by witchesindublin 3y ago
This is what the FT noted was the paradox of the US dollar's strength. The problem comes with the fact that the US dollar being the global currency of trade, means that everything is originally priced in US dollars, so the strength or
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by witchesindublin 3y ago
Social housing is a thing in much of the world. Housing is cheap in many countries around the world as well. Healthcare is free in most of the world and good standard in majority of the developed world.
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by witchesindublin 3y ago
Some are made by AI!
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by witchesindublin 3y ago
In my opinion it was real estate that sucked up most quantitive easing during the Great Recession, directly as well as indirectly through the fact that it was sub-prime mortgages being bailed out. Real estate collapsed during the pandemic s
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by witchesindublin 3y ago
The news culture in the US is toxic. It creates division and people react to the news rather than the policy. I believe Reddit has a similar effect by pushing moderates and centre-left people to the right.
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by witchesindublin 3y ago
deleting your account may not delete the posts.
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by witchesindublin 3y ago
Reddit is rarely the best source for anything except maybe a discussion on a news event around 2015. Quora was always a little better but has gone down the drain as well. But never I have added "reddit" to my searches.
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by witchesindublin 3y ago
The positives that the majority of people seem to bring up about Reddit could be replicated with the pre-reddit forum culture that had the UX of a pre-forum threaded chat. In fact one would argue that the internet was more diverse during th
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by witchesindublin 3y ago
The front page and discovery parts of Reddit are being replaced by TikTok. The major subreddits of Reddit are being destroyed by the moderation and are basically echo chambers. The remaining users are barricading themselves into a handful o
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by witchesindublin 3y ago
But South Korea is a much more gender-divided country where women go shopping and men go shooting.
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by witchesindublin 3y ago
The best UI would probably be a mixture of a forum and reddit. A fourm is a much superior model because it lacks upvotes/downvotes and is chronologically ordered, but lacks branching and chains that you describe. Reddit currently is be
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by witchesindublin 3y ago
I really doubt that the entire moderation team of all the subreddits were capable of sweeping the entire right wing and most moderates of Reddit independently, and without pushback from international users who knew the moderation wouldn&#x2
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by witchesindublin 3y ago
I disagree that the community is middle class (at least now). I often write about common middle class tropes that seemingly go down like a lead balloon as if they had never heard of them, and more importantly there is often a distain for mi
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by witchesindublin 3y ago
I actually think that Reddit is more "mass market" than tech-savvy. I never associate Reddit with techies in my entire life, unless you mean the people who move into tech for money.
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by witchesindublin 3y ago
It has happened in most subreddits IMO. Any palatable subreddit is only palatable because the moderation does not ban you, not because it is more centrist.
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by witchesindublin 3y ago
One thing I want to point out is that political culture, and defines right and left, varies globally. This is key to understanding why Reddit is so unbelievably US centric even in the international subreddits - the moderation has had the ef
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by witchesindublin 3y ago
I wonder if the solution is to develop a forum with better UX? And also with a better way to find said communities through search engines (Quora for example does a good job of getting on Google)? Though I would also argue that one of the bi
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by witchesindublin 3y ago
I still find that there is no advantage to Reddit over the old forum culture now that the moderation has gone full steam off the cliff into the ocean. If all you are doing on Reddit is barricading yourself into niche subreddits then what is
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by witchesindublin 3y ago
If all you are into is niche reddit communities, then why not have a forum for each community instead?
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by witchesindublin 3y ago
Reddit has never been good for "truth". It was good for discussions for the period between the end of forum culture and the 2016 presidential election, but since 2016 the website has been increasingly moderated to the point that r
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by witchesindublin 3y ago
Reddit stopped being the "truth" when the moderation became too extreme. It created echochamber that were mass market and strongly biased to the far-left, and with that the echochamber also resulted in a very strong bias towards A
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by witchesindublin 3y ago
There's also a much more noticeable problem of Reddit being too US-centric. The moderation is the cause, but I think it's also symbolic of US political culture that fails to take into account that politics can work differently acr
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by witchesindublin 3y ago
The other side of the argument is that, when Reddit is actually doing a good job for these niche communities, is it different to the old forum culture or a discord server?

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