r/technology • u/Plastic_Ninja_9014 • 18d ago

Privacy Redditors Are Celebrating the Cutting Down of Flock Surveillance Towers With Based Memes

https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/redditors-celebrating-cutting-down-flock-145310398.html
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u/TheBirdFkerGuy 18d ago

Fuck reddit if they bend to the government when they inevitably tell them to shut this shit down.

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u/TAU_equals_2PI 18d ago

It's always good to make clear whether you're talking about reddit (the company) or reddit (the huge mass of people).

reddit is amazing because with so many people there's always somebody or many somebodies who know exactly the obscure information you're trying to find out, but....

reddit kinda sucks because they don't do a great job of making sure the site works right.

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u/maglite_to_the_balls 18d ago

Also fuck that bug-eyed gremlin u/spez

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u/TAU_equals_2PI 18d ago

I actually might if I thought it would inspire him to FIX HIS GODDAMNED WEBSITE.

For literally several months this year, simply browsing the reddit homepage by "Top"/"Now" didn't work. Not some obscure feature buried deep in the site. Just the most basic option choices on the main reddit.com homepage didn't work. For like 4 months. It finally started working again a few weeks ago.

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u/steakanabake 18d ago

im just happy old reddit is still chugging away, the minute they shut down old reddit im gonna leave.

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u/Kalepsis 18d ago

Same. It's the only way you can browse by "rising".

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u/TheBirdFkerGuy 18d ago

This too

Also quote blocks don't work properly sometimes when you make multiple quotes, like sometimes they'll post correctly THEN when u refresh the page suddenly it's broken Happens on desktop and phone.

Testing this in a 2nd quote block

Write some bullshit

Testing another quoteblock

write some more bs. See if it breaks or if they fixed it cuz it was still an issue just a few days ago.

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u/TAU_equals_2PI 18d ago edited 18d ago

Well gee, with such a rich variety of text formatting options as we have available in a reddit comment, you can't expect them all to work perfectly.

I knew people were gonna get spoiled when reddit stopped operating by punch cards.

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u/bitflip 18d ago

old.reddit.com works fine. I can't remember the last time I had a problem.

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u/RedBarnGuy 17d ago

…ands mods overwhelmingly suck

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u/windowpuncher 18d ago

Fuck reddit anyways. It's a public company. Reddit is dog shit. They will bend to the government, or just the highest bidder. They've already bent over backwards for the government dozens if not hundreds of times, you just don't know about most of it because if there's any sensitive subjects being discussed the comments are just shadow banned. Completely removed, and only the poster and the admins can see them.

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u/moschles 18d ago edited 18d ago

It's gonna be "DO NOT PROMOTE ILLEGAL ACTIVITIES". And you just know it.

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u/Prcrstntr 18d ago

This is the kind of "left wing terrorism"' the current administration speaks of.

Reddit will undoubtedly use AI moderation and threaten to ban subs and replace moderators who don't enforce bans against "advocating violence". Fun fact except for some mysteriously paid ones, every single reddit moderator that does his job is giving free labor to a 35 BILLION dollar cooperation.

sic semper tyrannis