Episode 106: The Narwhal Bacons at Midnight
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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?

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Wikipedia's article) about the whole mess

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Reddit'd like) some of that sweet IPO cash 🤑

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Reddit's announcement) of the API changes

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Apollo' Christian Selig's post) ⚰️

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

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

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

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Ranking) of reddit.com

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

Alternatives:

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

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kbin)

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Lemmy)

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Sync app reborn on Lemmy)

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ActivityPub)

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List) of Lemmy instances

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How to 🪛 install Lemmy from scratch)

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kbin admin bare metal guide)

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Megalodon for Mastodon)

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The threat of Threads)

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The EU Comission Ireland) in the Fediverse

Announcements

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Meet up with Amolith at DEF CON 31), 10-13 August in Las Vegas 🇺🇸

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Meet us all at Ubuntu Summit 2023), 3-5 November in Riga 🇱🇻

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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).