Episode 106: The Narwhal Bacons at Midnight

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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Attribution

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