The 30min delay surprised me at first, but it's nice as a way of disengaging from reddit and deprioritizing it. I wouldn't mind setting it to once daily. 😂
pixelpop3
joined 1 year ago
FWIW I migrated from Infinity to RedReader and I've been pretty satisfied with it. It takes a little bit to get used to the different navigation but Infinity's navigation was already annoying (I had moved to Infinity about 6 months ago from Slide, which I think had the best navigation of all of them but Slide has been abandoned for quite some time).
What's on my mind is: I just find all of this frustrating. I understand the point about the SMTP analogy being superficial since it is dominated by large mail providers and blocklists. But that objection to the analogy seems ultimately superficial because overall this is an argument justifying the primacy of the blocklists. I think people are looking at this exactly how they look at mailservers--which server do I join so that I am not blacklisted to /dev/null by faceless server admins? So in fact the SMTP analogy seems super apt after adding blocklists to it.
I'm not sure I see the point. Is the Fediverse good at search and is it indexed? There's already the pushshift database, which seems more useful. People won't come here to reminisce and be sentimental about reddit ghosts. New content, interactions and communities are what is needed.
Nope and I don't see the point of deleting or defacing comments and posts, really. I'm not really interested in destroying reddit, I'm just... not using it anymore (or not as much).
Things like relationship and parenting advice communities and other sorts of support subreddits don't seem to be moving anywhere yet and I do enjoy them so dunno. Currently RedReader seems fine for those and won't be affected by the API change because it was granted an exception. The RedReader dev seems to be on my wavelength. So far the Fediverse seems perfectly fine for technical topics. With the exception that on Reddit, you will often find support people for small devices that work for companies inside of their communities. I'm keeping my eye out for the other content.
Another issue is that for better or worse it is somewhat easier to trust reddit. Reddit admins limit what moderators can know or see about users. I don't fully understand the privacy implications of the federverse and the fact that you don't know who the admins are and what they might be doing. So in some ways I trust Reddit a bit more at this point.
I know the damage that a power tripping reddit mod can do and how to protect myself from moderators harassment there. But I suspect that Fediverse is essentially "moderators who also know your IP address". So some topics do seem safer to discuss on Reddit than here.
Some I have enjoyed and learned from are:
- Joel Grus - Learning Data Science Using Functional Python
- Joel Grus - I don't like notebooks
- Matthew Seal - Notebooks as Functions with Papermill
It seems like it matters in the sense that you should set your "home base" to a server that has a community that behaves the way you want to be associated with.
It's taken me a little bit to wrap my head around this but this is how I currently understand it. Each server is essentially it's own independent "reddit.com" with its own users and "subreddits".
If the independent servers are on good terms with each other, the admins use federation/activitypub to graft "subreddits" from other servers into each other. This lets you interact with the remote "subreddit" as if it were a part of the server you actually joined.
So all of that is to say it seems like the correct way to go about it is to identify a server with many "subreddits" that have communities you "vibe" with and want to engage with and then join servers that get along with it.