StellarTabi

Born on February 19, 2018•367 Karma

on Feb 15, 2022

•on: Tell HN: Reddit accounts cancellation/suspension c...

It's really more about what kind of things people were posting from that VPN IP in the months/years before you. The abuse detection system will say "the tshirt spammer is back, flag this account" just because you used the same VPN as them.

StellarTabi•

on Feb 15, 2022

•on: Tell HN: Reddit accounts cancellation/suspension c...

Lemmy is great for anyone who wants to deploy their own reddit clone and wants federation with other lemmy instances.

StellarTabi•

on Feb 15, 2022

•on: Tell HN: Reddit accounts cancellation/suspension c...

4chan is not like reddit

StellarTabi•

on Feb 15, 2022

•on: Tell HN: Reddit accounts cancellation/suspension c...

Probably my 10 years + verified email + MFA + never using a public VPN saves me a lot of grief in the abuse detection algorithm lottery.

StellarTabi•

on Feb 15, 2022

•on: Tell HN: Reddit accounts cancellation/suspension c...

> I hope to see a Digg-like exodus soon.

Small problem with this. What enabled the Digg-to-reddit exodus was a strong competitor lying in the shadows. Nobody lying in the shadows behind reddit could handle an exodus. Most lemmy instances regularly go down anytime reddit so much as sneezes. I remember an exodus attempt to Voat took Voat down for at least a week, and in fact Voat never got back online until the entire exodus quit.

Gareth321•

on Feb 16, 2022

To be honest, I think there are strong alternatives now, but obviously none of them have the infrastructure necessary to sustain the entire Reddit community migrating overnight. Reddit's servers were flaky for years after the exodus, but we just lived with it because Digg sucked more. These days we have Kubernetes and commoditised hosting, so the infrastructure piece is largely solved. The question mark is around funding. Thankfully I'm seeing a lot more interest in funding for social platforms these days. VCs smell blood since Facebook signalled they're in decline. Twitter has decided any right leaning political views will be banned, so they're actively purging double digits from their user base. Alternative news and discussion channels like Substack are flourishing. This is the first real opportunity social has had for competition in at least a decade.

StellarTabi•

on Feb 13, 2022

•on: Ask HN: Account has been permanently suspended fro...

The abuse detection system that user is talking about does not kick in for 3 users on a shared IP who seeming accidentally participated in a subreddit another account was banned for. You would need much larger numbers or a moderator to formally acuse you of ban evasion to the admins.

josephcsible•

on Feb 13, 2022

The other comments in this thread make it sound like it absolutely does kick in in cases like that, and that no formal accusation of ban evasion is required for it to ban you.

StellarTabi•

on Feb 14, 2022

You just believe them with no evidence? Ban evasion suspensions say "ban evasion". They obviously triggered an unrelated system.

StellarTabi•

on Feb 15, 2022

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30344379

StellarTabi•

on Jan 20, 2022

•on: Ask HN: Free mail service for custom domains - G S...

> Free alternative to paid G Suite. > > Your custom domain.

I love it! I need more than one domain.

> Unlimited amount of users.

For the free tier specifically, maybe organizations otherwise giving you $0 should have a limit like 20 or 100. Or "unlimited users" could be a $10/month addon for the free plan.

> No storage limit

too unfair for you, I'd rather pay B2 style prices for each GB past 10GB or something.

> but attachments stored only for 1 month.

Surprise deletions are an instant No. Most inboxes just show you your % usage in the corner and allow me to handle deletions on my schedule.

StellarTabi•

on Dec 27, 2021

•on: Tumblr has added more strict tag filtering for the...

Twitter and Reddit constantly get progressively worse every update. You guys pretend like tumblr is dead all you want. The numbers show tumblr growing.

jjj123•

on Dec 27, 2021

Can you share those numbers?

1123581321•

on Dec 27, 2021

I'm not the same user but I checked SimilarWeb (better sources may exist.)

It looks like Tumblr has a lot of traffic, but isn't growing and is far behind reddit and twitter. None appear to be growing in the last several months; I don't know what that means.

Tumblr is about equal to wordpress.com hosted blog traffic, interestingly. Wordpress.com is a collection of hosted blogs with very light in-network social features. https://www.similarweb.com/website/tumblr.com/?competitors=w...

StellarTabi•

on Sept 8, 2021

•on: Lemmy – A link aggregator for the fediverse

> retalk

> Civil discussion for the center and center right

> Karl Marx: Atheist or Satanist?

> Candace Owens

> transphobic comic

> no links to github/gitlab

is this what passes for "civil discussion" and "center/center right" these days?

HexbearShill•

on Sept 8, 2021

Weird that a Reddit clone wouldn’t be open source. So much for the free speech crowd. thedonald and the .win-iverse did the same thing, but I think it was originally based on postmill.

StellarTabi•

on Aug 10, 2021

•on: American parents are sending their kids to 'Russia...

Wait, why I have been hearing non-stop astro-turfing about "CRT in schools" in the last 6 months and I've never heard once about math being taken out? This sounds really serious, is there more I can read about Math being removed from public schools?

caffeine•

on Aug 10, 2021

These are the same thing. The policy is to remove educational disparity. Naturally force flows along the path of least resistance - rather than raising everyone up, which is hard, we are simply removing anything difficult from the curriculum, which is much easier (at the expense of actually educating anyone, a goal that nobody cares about much any more).

The easiest way to make equality is to multiply both sides by zero.

starkd•

on Aug 10, 2021

Many in teachers' unions don't want to be rated on how badly public schools are doing. It's not all the fault of teachers, granted, but incentives of the union here is not always aligned with the students. Many don't want to hear it, but it needs to be said as a factor.

There are a lot of these initiatives - like Russian math - popping up serving as test cases for how to teach subjects. I think online programs are injecting some badly needed new energy.

chrisseaton•

on Aug 10, 2021

> incentives of the union here is not always aligned with the students

I don't know why this would surprise anyone.

The union represents the teachers. It absolutely doesn't represent the students - none of them are members!

As far as a rational teaching union is concerned, the government, the general public, schools, parents, and students, are all the enemy.

starkd•

on Aug 10, 2021

I hate to think that about a teachers, but it sure looks that way.