Episode 106: The Narwhal Bacons at Midnight

Reddit's gone mad • What now then?

Episode edited by Jake Bauer — thanks!

Discussion

Our 😤 thoughts on the Reddit debacle, and the options that there are for online communities.

WTF even happened?

Wikipedia's article about the whole mess

Reddit'd like some of that sweet IPO cash 🤑

Reddit's announcement of the API changes

Apollo' Christian Selig's post ⚰️

Subreddits went dark, the CEO just couldn't help himself and trolled on

👷‍♂️ Last year's stats had volunteer mods generate $3.4M worth of free labour

Reddit's pivot to crap ↪️💩 possibly made Google Search (even) less usefull

Ranking of reddit.com

Reddit's old site, projects like RES and third party apps like Infinity improve upon the current "stock" experience

Alternatives:

sub.rehab lists instances of the Reddit communities on alternative platforms

kbin

Lemmy

Sync app reborn on Lemmy

ActivityPub

List of Lemmy instances

How to 🪛 install Lemmy from scratch

kbin admin bare metal guide

Megalodon for Mastodon

The threat of Threads

The EU Comission Ireland in the Fediverse

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The music for this podcast was sampled from Bust This Bust That - Professor Kliq which was released under the CC BY NC SA License.