Apollo / Reddit app, API shenanigans.

Reddit is like anywhere else at the moment. Different sub-reddits are moderated and populated by a certain type of people. Go on the right ones and you will be banned for suggesting trans women don't menstruate and go on another and you will be banned for suggesting trans people aren't just mentally ill.

Thats pretty much the idea of it. Each sub-reddit is for a different topic, hobby, idea etc so they will be quite polarised at times.

People also take the internet far too seriously.
 
I rarely use Reddit but when I have I just used the official app - didn't even know alternative apps existed. The official app works fine, lets me view what I want without issues, so I really don't understand what all the fuss is about.
 
fez said:
Reddit is like anywhere else at the moment. Different sub-reddits are moderated and populated by a certain type of people. Go on the right ones and you will be banned for suggesting trans women don't menstruate and go on another and you will be banned for suggesting trans people aren't just mentally ill.

Thats pretty much the idea of it. Each sub-reddit is for a different topic, hobby, idea etc so they will be quite polarised at times.

People also take the internet far too seriously.
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The subs do have a weird religious zealot like hive mind, if you dare go against the grain
 
sigma said:
Isn't that my point though? They allow fairly extreme ideas/comments therefore I'm surprised that herpderps on here would think Reddit is bad.
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Sorry I took your post as you only meant the proper right wing nutters.
Minusorange said:
The subs do have a weird religious zealot like hive mind, if you dare go against the grain
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The main pro wrestling sub is absolute insanity for this, it got to a point where if you said anything remotely against the AEW company then you were banned.
 
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A2Z said:
I rarely use Reddit but when I have I just used the official app - didn't even know alternative apps existed. The official app works fine, lets me view what I want without issues, so I really don't understand what all the fuss is about.
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I am the same. I use the official app and its fine for me. Plenty of people don't and the issue here is that reddit has thrived due to:

Its unpaid moderators
Its users generating vast amounts of content for them
Third party app developers who made reddit viable on mobile when their own app was crap in the past.

The fact that the largest third party app sends 6bn api requests a year should tell you how many people use it. Reddit in of itself isn't very complex and its entire business model requires people to make the platform and unpaid moderators to control it for them.

There would be absolutely no issue if they charged a reasonable amount for API usage. They aren't. They are making in putatively expensive with the sole goal of squeezing anyone else out of the game. They will no doubt try and start charging people for reddit at some point. They have a planned IPO later this year which is why this is happening. I really hope it massively backfires and they lose a huge number of users and collapse the whole thing.

I love reddit but the guys that run it are complete *****.
 
Throrik said:
To be fair there's some absolute proper frothing at the mouth left wing nutters too on there. Ended up browsing through /r/greenandpleasant once and that was interesting.
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The UK sub is awful in every single way, the most depressing bunch with no actual thoughts of their own
 
Almost all of reddit is archived and freely available for download. Let that sink in! :D

The incompetence of the people in charge is evident and the Apollo situation is a consequence of how dumb reddit management have been to not build a business model around their data until recently.

I search on reddit a lot, looking for valuable insight which is plentiful there. Recently all I'm finding is private subreddits. All power to them. I move on and search elsewhere.
 
Throrik said:
To be fair there's some absolute proper frothing at the mouth left wing nutters too on there. Ended up browsing through /r/greenandpleasant once and that was interesting.
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Green and pleasant is always good for an absolutely ridiculous opinion. Right wing nut jobs are ****** but man, left wing ones are just absolutely mental at the extreme end. I often wonder if they realise how ironic their subreddit name is. They are unbelievably nasty.
 
Deep said:
The main pro wrestling sub is absolute insanity for this, it got to a point where if you said anything remotely against the AEW company then you were banned.
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Yep it's crazy how many will throw logic & reason out of the window to join the hive mind, I don't even think most will read a downvoted comment and will instead just downvote because others have downvoted it which is just laughable
 
sigma said:
Ok maybe not Nazis specifically but I've seen quite a lot of hatred and racism on there, and quite a few offensive posts, doesn't seem too much of a stretch to think that extreme ideologies talk freely.
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So talking out of your arse then?

Still unsure why you think I'd be a fan of those things though... I'll wait.

Edit: no answer of course lol. Standard
 
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Orcvader said:
Aww nuts, was Googling things for work on solutions, the preview on the results linking to Reddit looks promising, but then... private :cry: . A bit more scrolling on Google managed to find the solution on another site at least, but I forgot how I sometimes depend on Reddit for clear, easy fixes.
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Ha, I did the exact same thing yesterday for work as well.
 
cu3ed said:
Casual Uk is rather funny though.
Same for the NI reddit as well..its a cess pit.
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I don't mind Casual UK, mostly seems to be non-UK based people thinking that everything is tea and crumpets, but at least it's non-political. I think that's been the key for me, find subreddits that don't allow political nonsense, because extremists have a homing signal to keyboard warrior themselves on to watch lists.
 
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