Geezus the day Reddit userbase becomes the same as TikTok is the day I'm fully migrating here.
There's room for a competitor. Digg v4 2.0!
Reddit CEO: TikTok Is ‘Fundamentally Parasitic’
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Re: Reddit CEO: TikTok Is ‘Fundamentally Parasitic’
#32Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah, but it also gives any user the ability to start their own sub if they want.
Yep, make your own sub! And then they shut it down, take it over, give it to other people, or quarantine it if they don’t like what you are saying. The comparison to TikTok which is popular despite being Chinese run and Reddit which is acting in a way that makes me wonder if they are Chinese run is curious. I wonder which service really has less free speech atm.
Well, you've just pointed out the problem with centralized social media platforms. Someone else owns them.
Re: Reddit CEO: TikTok Is ‘Fundamentally Parasitic’
#33Hello pot, here's kettle. Silicon Valley tech is really gonna eat itself
Re: Reddit CEO: TikTok Is ‘Fundamentally Parasitic’
#34I'll take TikToks 'parasitic' over Reddits toxic negativity any day of the week. Go look at the front page of Reddit, then look at what's trending on Tiktok... From my humble perspective tiktok is a pretty positive place. Reddit on the other hand seems to have been overrun with political fighting and cynicism about literally everything. It may not be popular among the tech crowd but for where I am in my life that is…
TikTok banned pro-LGBT content (until they were called out on it?), TikTok bans a bunch of things in countries that aren't illegal there (or in any civilized country, for that matter), TikTok bans criticism of certain political figures in some regions, so forth. Positive, but at what price? I don't like reddit, either, to be fair.
Aren't they entitled to enforce some standards in line with their views? Nobody condemns reddit for enforcing site-wide pro-LGBT sentiment; I find it extraordinarily self-righteous and hypocritical when people condemn a platform for encouraging pro-family content.
Not that I'm suggesting TikTok is a bastion of virtue or anything like that. Quite the opposite from my limited exposure.
Re: Reddit CEO: TikTok Is ‘Fundamentally Parasitic’
#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
TikTok banned pro-LGBT content (until they were called out on it?), TikTok bans a bunch of things in countries that aren't illegal there (or in any civilized country, for that matter), TikTok bans criticism of certain political figures in some regions, so forth. Positive, but at what price? I don't like reddit, either, to be fair.
The front page of hacker news is heavily moderated and political discussions are quickly gone. You can either have productive interesting discussions (or in TikTok's case fun videos) or you can have free speech.
Its ridiculous to suggest that lgbt content prevents fun videos. Also there is a lot of political content on HN. Its just shit flinging and random off topic rants that get removed.
Re: Reddit CEO: TikTok Is ‘Fundamentally Parasitic’
#36I'll take TikToks 'parasitic' over Reddits toxic negativity any day of the week. Go look at the front page of Reddit, then look at what's trending on Tiktok... From my humble perspective tiktok is a pretty positive place. Reddit on the other hand seems to have been overrun with political fighting and cynicism about literally everything. It may not be popular among the tech crowd but for where I am in my life that is…
The controversial subreddits get a lot of attention (up and down votes) and so show up as hot/interesting threads, and have the most visibility. If you limit yourself to politics and news, then yeah, you'll see a lot of extreme comments and hotheads. But if you stop there and write off reddit as nothing but "toxic negativity", you've judge the 95% based on the 5%.
Go to, oh, r/bass (the musical instrument, not the fish), or r/rtlsdr (sofware defined radio), to name two I visit sometimes, you'll find pleasant, helpful communities. I imagine there are tens of thousands of other civil subreddits.
As a very small experiment, I guessed the names of a few subreddits that seem like they would exist and had a look around. r/poker, r/weather, r/airplanes, r/needlepoint, r/darts. 5/5, all nice communities.
Re: Reddit CEO: TikTok Is ‘Fundamentally Parasitic’
#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
TikTok banned pro-LGBT content (until they were called out on it?), TikTok bans a bunch of things in countries that aren't illegal there (or in any civilized country, for that matter), TikTok bans criticism of certain political figures in some regions, so forth. Positive, but at what price? I don't like reddit, either, to be fair.
The front page of hacker news is heavily moderated and political discussions are quickly gone. You can either have productive interesting discussions (or in TikTok's case fun videos) or you can have free speech.
I wasn't arguing for free speech. I was arguing against homophobia, banning criticism of very specific political leaders (they don't ban political discussion), censorship of statues of religious figures and so forth. All of which things that TikTok has done.
Re: Reddit CEO: TikTok Is ‘Fundamentally Parasitic’
#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
TikTok banned pro-LGBT content (until they were called out on it?), TikTok bans a bunch of things in countries that aren't illegal there (or in any civilized country, for that matter), TikTok bans criticism of certain political figures in some regions, so forth. Positive, but at what price? I don't like reddit, either, to be fair.
Reddit gives random moderators (who are often affiliated with companies or governments, without disclosure) the power to do all this and lots more.
It's not random at all. Moderators are appointed so as to suit a particular narrative. The subs are such echo chambers that it is hard to separate propaganda and truth.
Re: Reddit CEO: TikTok Is ‘Fundamentally Parasitic’
#39I'll take TikToks 'parasitic' over Reddits toxic negativity any day of the week. Go look at the front page of Reddit, then look at what's trending on Tiktok... From my humble perspective tiktok is a pretty positive place. Reddit on the other hand seems to have been overrun with political fighting and cynicism about literally everything. It may not be popular among the tech crowd but for where I am in my life that is…
To be fair, these two are hardly comparable. Reddit is very toxic for sure but if you're looking for serious information or thoughts, it's still has some of that left. Whereas TikTok is pure entertainment, you're not gonna find anything "useful" or thoughtful there, but from the handful of clips (a couple dozen maybe) I've seen over the years it's indeed a delightful place to be, and my friends who do use it love it (more than Instagram at least).
Re: Reddit CEO: TikTok Is ‘Fundamentally Parasitic’
#40Heh. This sounds like a business person that doesn't understand their competition, so they self-righteously trashed them as a way of avoiding the question. I mean, I sure as hell don't know the reason for TikTok's success, but I'm not the CEO of reddit. TikTok has a billion+ users, despite it's crappy reputation as surveillance-ware, so there must be something to learn from them.
> I sure as hell don't know the reason for TikTok's success
I do. Simple service that came up with a massive user base to keep it propped up and focused around funny, cute, or stupid Vine replacement clips, then US kids flocked to it.
Annoyingly; my favorite tiktok and comment about it were found on Reddit
When I went to college to study TV and stuff, nobody, and I mean nobody, had any inkling that this was the future of entertainment. https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/f3syl1/duck_throws_i...