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- That Whole Moltbot/OpenClaw YOLOing AI Agents Thing … it is a website that is a bit like Reddit. It is a set of forums where things can have accounts and make posts and comment on posts …
- What Does it Mean to be Friends? … At the very least you’d record that “these people were imported from Reddit” and remember that so you can distinguish the Reddit influx from the LinkedIn influx …
- Decide What’s Important; Tacit Admission … And here’s a reddit post about an inaccurate frequently returned badge [4] . And the top red-teaming reddit post about the announcement from two years ago is …
- The Great Social Network Heist … Bookwyrm , a not-goodreads; Pixelfed , a not-Instagram; Lemmy , a not-Reddit; Otter , a not-Pinterest; PeerTube , a not-YouTube This is anecdata: I don’t use any …
- You don’t want an intelligent assistant; Protocols, Not Platforms … You can choose between Twitter and how Twitter is managed and Reddit and how Reddit is managed . (Reddit is a more interesting example, which I’ll go into …
- How It’s Made; Blocking is Healthy, Actually … rather opaque. (Another negative signal is downvotes, which are visible in places like Reddit). Recently -- especially on Threads, the strangely lacking-in-affordances-for-threaded-conversations short-form …
- Sudo Do Me An Ethical Art; Twitter Imploding Was Good, Actually … Twitter closes down its API and restricts bots, Reddit follows suit. Does anyone even remember when Instagram, Facebook and Twitter co-operated until it made more sense financially …
- Free-range, Organic, and Natural; The Original Promise … just this year, Twitter and Reddit demonstrated that when push comes to shove, openness in terms of allowing third party invention and connection just isn't possible if …
- The Careless Conversation; The Shape of Things … And we get this, right now, when Tweets are screenshotted or TikToks are cross-posted but have the bug burned-in, when Reddit posts are screenshotted and shared …
- Just Because We Can Doesn't (Necessarily) Mean We Should: Mastodon and Social Networks Edition … Facebook (and through that, Facebook Groups), Twitter, Reddit, and, well. That's it, if we're talking about "community" and places that have more than, say, a hundred …
- Mastodon, or What Happens When Your Software Has Opinions And Now You Have Choices … It's worth mentioning Facebook and Reddit, the latter because it's genuinely built around communities, the former because it subsumed communities in the form of Groups, which …
- Standards; The Bird in the Room
- Dying Slowly, and then All At Once; Scrollytelling … Who would I trust? What am I supposed to do, cruise Reddit communities or mailing lists? Ask for recommendations? (I am, indeed, asking for recommendations, if you've …
- It's not a place, it's what's in-between; Twitter will be unbundled … or maybe it is like? something like Reddit with all its distinct subcommunities. But you see of course the difference with Reddit unlike all of those other social …
- Blistering 5G Internet Speed on America's Best Mobile Network and also No Potable Water … and the accompanying screenshot of the reddit post . Caught my attention because: this is just so so so so good. It's happening Lisa Messeri noticed that a …
- Actually, it's about the ethics in dataset collection, attribution and licensing in machine learning … data for training. It's another to do wholesale scraping of, e.g. Reddit forums without sufficient anonymization or scrubbing. And then it's another to assert ownership …
- I Learned It From You … the toxicity likely comes from "a primary source" (training data) of the model, which was unmoderated text from Reddit. Look. Reddit is not an unmitigated cesspool. I have …
- A Short Conversation About NATO … two AAPLs, or 1,852 Reddits) and a population of 5.525 million (about 145 AAPLs, or one tenth of a Reddit), takes a few weeks to just …
- Bringing your feelings to work and Reddit, Actually … I've always said, for, like, ever, that Reddit-the-place is totally capable of and does actually have well-moderated subreddits and communities and it should be …
- Stop doing that, it's making you look silly … blockchain infrastructure?), from a Reddit post on the solana subreddit: Here's how 98k ETH was stolen on Solana, explained like you're five It's funny, see …
- Fifteen Minutes Or Less … One of the remedies suggested by a commenter somewhere is that you can use Stack Overflow (a community question/answer site for programming), or Reddit (an... online community …
- "We Really Didn't Expect This To Work" … 1.4 Studying Reddit Via Dr. Casey Fiesler [6] , an overview of 727 papers studying the use of Reddit as a data source [7] . Some quick findings: the …
- The One Where I Don't Want To Talk About Substack Just As Much As You Do, And Yet … But on other systems, like Reddit, there are mechanisms like flair , which isn’t something I was initially familiar with as a Brit until a) Office Space and …
- How can I help you? … and Facebook? I mean, is that that much better than having an entire Reddit dedicated to figuring out how to work unemployment insurance? [ Washington Post ]. Because Here’s …
- No Such Thing As A Blank Slate … 1.2 Shorter things that caught my attention Via the Orange Site, here is a demo video [ github repo ] of a Reddit bot that renders Reddit conversation threads …
- QAnon looks like an alternate reality game … In 2013, after the Boston Marathon bombings, a Reddit community declared that it would solve the bombings and find the perpetrator using the power of crowdsourcing. The Reddit …
- Snow Crashing … For example, on Reddit, I'd imagine: IAMA Clink Franchise Owner, AMA [ask me anything] Ask Reddit: What's the worst thing that's ever happened to you …
- Breaking the rules … listen to them anyway because they wrote Rome Sweet Rome , inspired by a Reddit comment about What If A Modern U.S. Marine Battalion, But Suddenly Transported To …
- What’s the target? … flee). “I mean even five years from now. “For his work with the Reddit Action Network on Climate Change...” soooo many global rewards and soooo much truly earned …
- Firebreak Protocol … At the same time, I’ve learned about other home-grown moderation tools - automod bots on Reddit have moderator-run watchlists for words that on the one hand …
- Write the future … what can we add to this? Reddit, for example, has *a* community aligned around sending pizza to people, another around doing a secret santa, and while the venn …
- DNS Fan Fiction; 100-watt-hour-Trucks … By now, the hacker darknet site "Reddit" has penetrated the public consciousness. Even amongst Reddit users, though, hardly any know of a more secret network. Originally founded as …
- SMALL MOVES, ELLIE … or compelling writing, but good or compelling writing can come from anywhere, even Reddit[4]. This reminds me of clasically "good" ARG writing but massively simplified so that …
- OK TO GO … The Reddit thread in itself is pretty interesting because there's the whole "what would consumers do with an infrared camera anyway" which is pretty much already answered …
- Sending Signals; So We Solved Publishing; 2015 (1) … They could be on Reddit. The collapse of physical forms of media with signifiers as to activity down to media-agnostic electronic devices that can perform *any* media …
- The System Of The World; Hard Takeoff … James Erwin is an interesting fellow because he's the one who answered a Reddit question about what might happen if a modern US Marine battalion found itself …
- Snow Crashing (10); How The Web Works Now … Which, with hindsight, kind of misses (at least some of) the success of things like Reddit AMAs and Twitter: that it's closeness-in-general, not physical closeness …
- Who's Afraid Of Infrastructure; White Hats; Utopias; Chinese Room Mobs … respect of Gamergate is what you get when Jesse Singal goes back to Reddit to counter accusations of his article on the same being poorly researched[7]. Singal …
- Names; The Condition … Titan installs Bluetooth "beacons" in NYC phone booths under the guise of media Reddit apparently acts as a command-and-control network for an OS X worm The …
- They Don't Owe You Anything; Awkwardly Specialised … Now, BBC News Online looks to The Guardian and the New York Times and The Atlantic and Buzzfeed and Reddit and 4chan and any number of online news …
- She Who Wears The Digital Crown; Designing Community … They are less, I think, things that reflect well upon Reddit and instead things that reflect well upon communities of people. For every Reddit thread showing progress in …
- The Mezzanine; Doing The Job; Minimum Viable Whimsy … Annoyed about Reddit, like everyone else. Thinking about a recent car accident - well, the incident in which someone accidented themselves into the car I was in, and who …
- Usborne's Future; Phase Change; OK Google, Dismantle Barge … I would say something like you may as well go and read Reddit for a bit, but everyone knows that if you avoid the creepy MRA bits of …
- Belong; Snow Crashing (9); Humans As A Service … Stephenson writes perhaps one of the most insightful pre-Reddit diagnoses of casual sexism to have been committed to page: "It was, of course, nothing more than sexism …
- Continued Disruption; Snow Crashing (7); Edge of Tomorrow … These days, I suspect that FOQNEs would include Alex Jones' INFOWARSLAND, Glenn Beck's Independence, Peter Thiel's Seasteading Institute and Reddit's Mens Rightslandia. I wonder if …
- Day One; Google Everything … And at the other end, we have our Reddits and Hacker Newses which show us what's possible when algorithms take a little more control. This isn't …