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blivet, to RedditMigration in Reddit is a dead site running
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Not really. There is some discussion of "emotionally sticky nodes", but they aren't really defined, just described. Which is fine, and it's actually an interesting article, but when you start throwing around terms like "nodes" it makes it sound like you want your readers to think you're talking about something that is empirically valid, not just giving your opinion.

blivet, to RedditMigration in Reddit is a dead site running
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I suspect what the article is describing is actually happening, but I’m curious how the writer a couple of quotes deep goes about identifying “emotionally sticky nodes”. They are using verbiage that makes it sound like they are describing something objective, but I have my doubts.

blivet, to RedditMigration in Does anyone regret deleting their Reddit account?
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I started routinely deleting my comments anyhow after someone creeped me out by searching through my history for ammunition to use in an argument. I just deleted the five or six recent ones I hadn’t done yet, and that was that. I’ve kept my account because it might come in handy at some point, but I’ve only been on Reddit once in the past few weeks.

blivet, to RedditMigration in BotDefense is wrapping up operations : r/BotDefense
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I've noticed that some Wikipedia references now link to a Wayback Machine archive instead of directly to the original page. That's probably the smart way to do it.

In my case none of the dead links I had bookmarked were all that important. I had actually decided to try to check them in the first place because I couldn't remember what a lot of them were.

blivet, to RedditMigration in BotDefense is wrapping up operations : r/BotDefense
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Yeah, I used to work at a university, so I've been around since the earliest days of the web. It's kind of ironic that from the very start one of the big misgivings from academics about the web as a research tool was the ephemeral nature of its content. One of the examples given back in the 1990s was that a lot of websites that people had begun to rely on were really just some grad student's pet project, and when they moved on someone else might or might not pick up where they left off.

The scale of things has certainly changed since then, but nothing seems to have become more permanent. Just the other day I went through my list of bookmarks on a topic, and easily half of them now lead nowhere, even URLs for major news outlets and blogging platforms that are still extant.

blivet, to RedditMigration in 3rd party app for Reddit, Boost, is still functioning well after July 1st
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When the API shut off early, Apollo dev u/iamthatis (@fhristianselig) revoked his token so I cannot see any of this

Yeah, Reddit singled his app out to be cut off first. So petty.

blivet, (edited ) to RedditMigration in Reddit protest plunges user engagement, site activity and ad portal visits
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It will probably drive away a lot of adults, though. Even if they are unaware of the Fediverse or don’t consider it an acceptable substitute for Reddit, they won’t stay if the threads are dominated by bored teens screwing around.

It’s already bad enough. On my single visit back a few days ago it struck me that the largely ignorant and unperceptive comments I was reading were probably written by kids who were just killing time and didn’t actually have much interest in the topic at hand.

blivet, to asklemmy in What do you use for a domain registrar?
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Yeah, I have a couple of domains registered with Google, and I remember people saying that it was likely they would shut down the service the way they have killed so many other products after people started to rely on them. At this point it wouldn’t surprise me if they canned Gmail.

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