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New comment by d10486fa91eb46 in "Show HN: Non.io, a Reddit-like platform Ive been working on for the last 4 years"

d10486fa91eb46 — Mon, 12 Jun 2023 23:20:09 +0000

> 1. Free to browse, paid to interact.

This is exactly what I have been pondering recently about maintaining a website with useful content not prone to some of the problems we are seeing from all of the "free to interact" websites. Only serious contributors would pay for the ability to aggregate and interact with a community.

Thank you for your work on this, will be looking into this further.

New comment by d10486fa91eb46 in "Reddit crashed because of the growing subreddit blackout"

d10486fa91eb46 — Mon, 12 Jun 2023 23:16:03 +0000

The problem for me with the different subreddits and mods is the inconsistency between them. I am shadowbanned from some instantly before a single comment, I can't comment on a subreddit without providing a registered email, in so doing compromising my privacy, (looking at you /r/linux), appeals to mods go unanswered, and the universe help you if a mod disagrees with something you have said. It is a completely frustrating experience to try to opine on topics you find interesting without being herded through the tunnel like cattle to conform.

However, I do agree with the blackouts as it is a coordinated action to a larger problem, not some power obsessed individual subreddit with arbitrary rules also applied arbitrarily.

New comment by d10486fa91eb46 in "The US government is buying troves of data about Americans"

d10486fa91eb46 — Mon, 12 Jun 2023 22:59:46 +0000

I agree with this. I'd rather them drop the pretense and say that we are spying on all of you, we don't abide by our own laws, and we have shown the inability to self-police, hold accountable, or be transparent about our methods and bad actors. However, that would go against the illusion of "democracy" that is sold to the people to make us feel that we still have agency.