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Reddit CEO: TikTok Is ‘Fundamentally Parasitic’

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Re: Reddit CEO: TikTok Is ‘Fundamentally Parasitic’

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Post by kick »

a012 wrote: post #20
defterGoose wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, but it also gives any user the ability to start their own sub if they want.

Doesn't Supermoderators can hijack and own user's sub, too?

No. Admins aren't supermoderators, they're reddit employees, and the only way you can gain control of a subreddit if you're not an admin is by /r/redditrequest, which has very specific criteria. (Moderator has to have been offline from reddit for N days, so forth.) Even admins can't take control of subreddits arbitrarily. If they did, there are a few that would have been gone years ago.

Re: Reddit CEO: TikTok Is ‘Fundamentally Parasitic’

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Post by Polylactic_acid »

kick wrote: post #16
theferalrobot wrote: post #8

I'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.

There was also the case where they flagged the accounts of disabled users to partially shadow ban them so they wouldn't be bullied since few people could actually see their posts.

Re: Reddit CEO: TikTok Is ‘Fundamentally Parasitic’

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Post by jakelazaroff »

rapsey wrote: post #30
kick wrote: post #16

Earlier 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.

There’s no reason we can’t make different judgements about different types of speech. I’m fine with HN removing political posts likely to result in flame wars, but I would have a problem with them blanket removing posts about, say, JavaScript. Likewise, I’m fine with TikTok removing harassing content but not pro–LGBT+ content. These are not contradictory positions.

Re: Reddit CEO: TikTok Is ‘Fundamentally Parasitic’

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Post by audi0slave »

theferalrobot wrote: post #8

I'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…

Reddit shows what the world is, tik tok shows the world you want to see. if you ignore this you will become the part of the problem.

Re: Reddit CEO: TikTok Is ‘Fundamentally Parasitic’

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Post by PopeDotNinja »

manigandham wrote: post #19
theferalrobot wrote: post #8

I'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…

Where are you seeing so much "toxic negativity" on Reddit? The homepage is pretty generic news content if you're not logged in, but the typical logged-in experience with any social network comes down to who and what you follow. EDIT: I'm curious what people are disagreeing with here. I'm in dozens of subreddits that are all great communities.

Do you spend much time on /r/all?

Re: Reddit CEO: TikTok Is ‘Fundamentally Parasitic’

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Post by hu3 »

samstave wrote: post #24

Reddit is now banning folks for upvoting content! Im on mobile, but there is a screenshot of huffman promising for life to not delete content by users. Reddit is a propaganda tool 100% now. (There is another post by him saying as so, they removed both)

You're not wrong:

https://reclaimthenet.org/reddit-banned-for-upvote-policy/

and

https://old.reddit.com/r/SamandTolki/comments/f9fox2/reddit_...

Re: Reddit CEO: TikTok Is ‘Fundamentally Parasitic’

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Post by SlowRobotAhead »

defterGoose wrote: post #32
SlowRobotAhead wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Yes, but, if you aren’t breaking rules and they claim to be defenders of free speech you could at least expect them to play the part. I’ve seen some real shananagans at Reddit including the CEO stealth editing posts.

Reddit acting as publisher is fine with me, they just still insist they are a neutral platform.

Re: Reddit CEO: TikTok Is ‘Fundamentally Parasitic’

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Post by rapsey »

Polylactic_acid wrote: post #35
rapsey wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

They have a moderation formula and it works. Any social media platform requires it to succeed. That is the reality of today's internet. lgbt content is controversial in huge parts of the world.

Re: Reddit CEO: TikTok Is ‘Fundamentally Parasitic’

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Post by dagenix »

audi0slave wrote: post #44
theferalrobot wrote: post #8

I'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…

Reddit shows what the world is, tik tok shows the world you want to see. if you ignore this you will become the part of the problem.

Tik Tok shows the world that the oppressive governments and the 1950s wanted.
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