This is them closing another loophole that allowed people to see past Reddit's censorship and tanking the open internet nature of the platform once and for all. Reddit has become a walled garden information silo with biased admins unfairly dishing out permanent censorship with no recourse to review or recover what was censored. Fuck Reddit. The Digg 2.0 launch can't come soon enough.
Sadly the country is too interconnected for that to work. Red counties in blue states and vice versa. States that rely on other states for vital resources and so on. If there were another Civil War maybe that could force a split but otherwise we're stuck with each other.
There's one simple way to boost traffic that I've run by Cicero which he refuses to do on principle I guess. This site has thousands of lapsed users, many from years back that may not even remember signing up. My recommendation to Cicero was that he send out an email to all members, like a digest of some highlighted recent posts and showing off the app availability just as a reminder to people to come check out the site again.
That'd instantly boost activity by at least a few hundred users without having to even worry about onboarding new ones. The email wouldn't have to be a regular thing, heck it could be one time or just something sent out when/if traffic gets too low for too long. Still boss man doesn't like the idea so that's out I guess.
The other realistic option is advertising. Multichannel, throw out ads wherever it's possible to cheaply reach many people. Like maybe sponsoring small Youtubers, nothing expensive, just the type that'd take a tiny bit of cash (or whatever perk Cicero can dream up) to big-up the site in their vids for a few.
Then there's the dark pattern way of building traffic (the way Reddit did it initially before Digg imploded) which is to pay one of those traffic spoofing companies that'll load up the site with a lot of real-looking and sounding users temporarily. This eliminates the biggest road block to user growth which is the empty restaurant problem. If one looks through the Reddit Alternatives sub over there a constant ask from people is that they want a site with a high active user base site. This is self defeating since Reddit has all the users, no alternative will ever rise up because they first have to acquire a bunch of users who are already on Reddit and not leaving for the most part. That's why Lemmy gets so much traction there despite most who've tried it finding it to be just as bad as Reddit in some ways or worse. Lemmy has a big active (ish) user base which is what most people want to see when coming upon a forum for the first time. They want to come to a raging party not spend the time and effort it takes to throw the raging party, fake users achieves that. As organic traffic rises you then taper off the paid/fake users until you're left with just the organic users. Raging party achieved. This is how some big platforms have gotten over the adoption hurdle.
They're an acquired taste for some. I've always thought of them as another distorted instrument in the mix. There are some nice clean vocals in the song as well if you make it through the beginning part.
I dunno man Digg is the OG in the space. If they come out with a banging platform I'd expect a significant exodus from Reddit. It'd probably be kinda like "BlueSky vs X" at the start, like Digg stealing a significant portion of Reddit's users but not killing it, just leaving the true believers. If Digg turns out to be awesome though with how enshittified Reddit has become I could see a much bigger exodus playing out, maybe not "Facebook vs Myspace" (or Reddit vs Digg 1.0) but enough that Reddit really starts to feel the pain and their stock takes a big hit. That'd be swell.
Of course this being Hell the most likely outcome is Digg 2.0 sucks balls and Reddit gets even bigger and enforces even more censorship because when in the last like decade has the good thing happened when there was an option for the shitty thing to happen?
And so it begins (not mine btw). Digg has everything going for their relaunch. If they screw it up and somehow don't tank Reddit it's all on them, Reddit is begging to be replaced at this point.
Not even one of their best songs off Abominable I just love the bridge that starts at 2:38s into it. You almost never hear a Death Metal band bust out a melody like that especially one that lets the bass player carry the song for a while. First time I heard it I was stoned which made it even better.
So if you get a chance do yourself a favor, get stoned and listen to the Amagortis album Abominable, it's very very good.
As always extreme metal is music meant for good heaphones. If you're listening on tinny PC, laptop, or earbud speakers it'll probably sound terrible (think pigs being slaughtered to the sound of static over the banging of pots and pans).
I dig this song (why I posted it) but anyone who's a guitarist look at the tabs to this song for a hearty laugh. Pure low E string binary code 0-1 abuse all the way through except for the harmonics. Wish my old band knew we could get away with this back in the day. Aaah deathcore, never change.
Of course should the pantelegraph still not meet your debloating and optimization needs the goto fix is, obviously, telepathy. While it will necessitate giving your AI girlfriend the mecha-cortex upgrade (not cheap) to allow her to decode telepathic signaling the results can't be beaten.
...Unless you're a truly dedicated web developer in which case you can further optimize your site by engineering around the well known "flesh bottleneck" present in standard telepathy. This is an easy step that can be achieved in a variety of ways though most devs choose to employ a purpose-made guillotine to decapitate themselves thereby freeing the soul up to directly transmit your site to users without the costly overhead of sending out packets through brain matter and bone. The femtoseconds of download time one saves this way can significantly reduce your site's bounce rate while boosting user engagement.
You know Data's puffing that cellular peptide Wedding Cake. You have to chief that.
TLDW: Reddit plays host to a Government-run manufactured consensus operation run by an Airforce unit that does shady cyber stuff.
No idea, I don't have an invite and haven't checked out the site yet. I'm just hoping it pulls people off the Redds.
This is them closing another loophole that allowed people to see past Reddit's censorship and tanking the open internet nature of the platform once and for all. Reddit has become a walled garden information silo with biased admins unfairly dishing out permanent censorship with no recourse to review or recover what was censored. Fuck Reddit. The Digg 2.0 launch can't come soon enough.
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Archive https://archive.is/UeYYM
I turned off political posts a while ago
Sadly the country is too interconnected for that to work. Red counties in blue states and vice versa. States that rely on other states for vital resources and so on. If there were another Civil War maybe that could force a split but otherwise we're stuck with each other.
There's one simple way to boost traffic that I've run by Cicero which he refuses to do on principle I guess. This site has thousands of lapsed users, many from years back that may not even remember signing up. My recommendation to Cicero was that he send out an email to all members, like a digest of some highlighted recent posts and showing off the app availability just as a reminder to people to come check out the site again.
That'd instantly boost activity by at least a few hundred users without having to even worry about onboarding new ones. The email wouldn't have to be a regular thing, heck it could be one time or just something sent out when/if traffic gets too low for too long. Still boss man doesn't like the idea so that's out I guess.
The other realistic option is advertising. Multichannel, throw out ads wherever it's possible to cheaply reach many people. Like maybe sponsoring small Youtubers, nothing expensive, just the type that'd take a tiny bit of cash (or whatever perk Cicero can dream up) to big-up the site in their vids for a few.
Then there's the dark pattern way of building traffic (the way Reddit did it initially before Digg imploded) which is to pay one of those traffic spoofing companies that'll load up the site with a lot of real-looking and sounding users temporarily. This eliminates the biggest road block to user growth which is the empty restaurant problem. If one looks through the Reddit Alternatives sub over there a constant ask from people is that they want a site with a high active user base site. This is self defeating since Reddit has all the users, no alternative will ever rise up because they first have to acquire a bunch of users who are already on Reddit and not leaving for the most part. That's why Lemmy gets so much traction there despite most who've tried it finding it to be just as bad as Reddit in some ways or worse. Lemmy has a big active (ish) user base which is what most people want to see when coming upon a forum for the first time. They want to come to a raging party not spend the time and effort it takes to throw the raging party, fake users achieves that. As organic traffic rises you then taper off the paid/fake users until you're left with just the organic users. Raging party achieved. This is how some big platforms have gotten over the adoption hurdle.
We'll make a Death Metal fan out of you yet ymous. Just gotta get you past this training wheels metal phase.
They're an acquired taste for some. I've always thought of them as another distorted instrument in the mix. There are some nice clean vocals in the song as well if you make it through the beginning part.
Link: https://youtu.be/WvPnewykSU4
That was pretty damn cool
If anyone was looking for a video to play at their 7 year old's birthday party.... you're welcome.
I dunno man Digg is the OG in the space. If they come out with a banging platform I'd expect a significant exodus from Reddit. It'd probably be kinda like "BlueSky vs X" at the start, like Digg stealing a significant portion of Reddit's users but not killing it, just leaving the true believers. If Digg turns out to be awesome though with how enshittified Reddit has become I could see a much bigger exodus playing out, maybe not "Facebook vs Myspace" (or Reddit vs Digg 1.0) but enough that Reddit really starts to feel the pain and their stock takes a big hit. That'd be swell.
Of course this being Hell the most likely outcome is Digg 2.0 sucks balls and Reddit gets even bigger and enforces even more censorship because when in the last like decade has the good thing happened when there was an option for the shitty thing to happen?
And so it begins (not mine btw). Digg has everything going for their relaunch. If they screw it up and somehow don't tank Reddit it's all on them, Reddit is begging to be replaced at this point.
Invites: https://reboot.digg.com
🤘🥊
Admins saying it was a glitch. Kinda sus a glitch would somehow only effect the NSFW subs.
Not even one of their best songs off Abominable I just love the bridge that starts at 2:38s into it. You almost never hear a Death Metal band bust out a melody like that especially one that lets the bass player carry the song for a while. First time I heard it I was stoned which made it even better.
So if you get a chance do yourself a favor, get stoned and listen to the Amagortis album Abominable, it's very very good.
As always extreme metal is music meant for good heaphones. If you're listening on tinny PC, laptop, or earbud speakers it'll probably sound terrible (think pigs being slaughtered to the sound of static over the banging of pots and pans).
The kinda music to bang your Elf girlfriend to after a long day of slaying orcs. 🤘
I dig this song (why I posted it) but anyone who's a guitarist look at the tabs to this song for a hearty laugh. Pure low E string binary code 0-1 abuse all the way through except for the harmonics. Wish my old band knew we could get away with this back in the day. Aaah deathcore, never change.
Of course should the pantelegraph still not meet your debloating and optimization needs the goto fix is, obviously, telepathy. While it will necessitate giving your AI girlfriend the mecha-cortex upgrade (not cheap) to allow her to decode telepathic signaling the results can't be beaten.
...Unless you're a truly dedicated web developer in which case you can further optimize your site by engineering around the well known "flesh bottleneck" present in standard telepathy. This is an easy step that can be achieved in a variety of ways though most devs choose to employ a purpose-made guillotine to decapitate themselves thereby freeing the soul up to directly transmit your site to users without the costly overhead of sending out packets through brain matter and bone. The femtoseconds of download time one saves this way can significantly reduce your site's bounce rate while boosting user engagement.