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Episode 106: The Narwhal Bacons at Midnight
Manage episode 371173858 series 2433430
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
Sync app reborn on Lemmy
List of Lemmy instances
How to 🪛 install Lemmy from scratch
kbin admin bare metal guide
The threat of Threads
The EU Comission Ireland in the Fediverse
Announcements
Meet up with Amolith at DEF CON 31, 10-13 August in Las Vegas 🇺🇸
Meet us all at Ubuntu Summit 2023, 3-5 November in Riga 🇱🇻
Contact Us
- We have a store
- We are on Telegram
- And on Mastodon
- And on Matrix
- You can email us on show@
- And despite rumours to the contrary, we do exist in real life
Support Us
Do you enjoy the Linux Lads podcast? Send us some PayPal love ❤ ️🍻, or support us on Ko-fi
Disclaimer
May contain mature references
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.
128 episodes
Manage episode 371173858 series 2433430
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
Sync app reborn on Lemmy
List of Lemmy instances
How to 🪛 install Lemmy from scratch
kbin admin bare metal guide
The threat of Threads
The EU Comission Ireland in the Fediverse
Announcements
Meet up with Amolith at DEF CON 31, 10-13 August in Las Vegas 🇺🇸
Meet us all at Ubuntu Summit 2023, 3-5 November in Riga 🇱🇻
Contact Us
- We have a store
- We are on Telegram
- And on Mastodon
- And on Matrix
- You can email us on show@
- And despite rumours to the contrary, we do exist in real life
Support Us
Do you enjoy the Linux Lads podcast? Send us some PayPal love ❤ ️🍻, or support us on Ko-fi
Disclaimer
May contain mature references
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.
128 episodes
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