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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 wanderingjew »

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.

The president was impeached, and there was no mention of it on HN. To say there is political content on HN is absurd.

Re: Reddit CEO: TikTok Is ‘Fundamentally Parasitic’

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Post by PopeDotNinja »

chvid wrote: post #27
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 is the worst. Catering to constant conflict. Always testing limits of what is technically legal and what clearly falls under hate speech laws; all under the banner of free speech. Reddit would love to be as technological advanced as TikTok but will never adopt their heavily edited approach because they know that there are far more eyeballs and moneys in constant conflict.

Reddit is much more pleasant when you filter the more toxic content. I like it a lot more after using Reddit Enhancement Suite to filter particularly nasty and/or unattractive subreddits. Kind of like real life, I just find a way to tune out what I don't like. If Reddit becomes 10% censored, it will stop being one of the few places that is actually interesting to me.

Re: Reddit CEO: TikTok Is ‘Fundamentally Parasitic’

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Post by dehrmann »

hajhatten wrote: post #31
pts_ wrote: post #21

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!

I always forget Digg was a thing.

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Re: Reddit CEO: TikTok Is ‘Fundamentally Parasitic’

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Post by willvarfar »

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…

You shouldn't have to choose a 'fundamentally parasitic' app in order to get nice content. Its not like you're making a good trade-off. Its not like "oh record everything about me and everyone I am near, just so long as you give me good feelings instead of arguments!" sounds reasonable.

Yes reddit is a cesspool, and even HN seems to be slipping perceptibly, and no I can't think of anywhere nice and safe, but that doesn't mean tiktok is a good choice for anyone.

Re: Reddit CEO: TikTok Is ‘Fundamentally Parasitic’

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Post by throwaway122378 »

“I’m confident that Reddit could sway elections. We wouldn’t do it, of course. And I don’t know how many times we could get away with it. But, if we really wanted to, I’m sure Reddit could have swayed at least this election, this once.”

-Reddit CEO

Re: Reddit CEO: TikTok Is ‘Fundamentally Parasitic’

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Post by kick »

wanderingjew wrote: post #51
Polylactic_acid wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

The president was impeached, and there was no mention of it on HN. To say there is political content on HN is absurd.

Political content is allowed as long as it's on-topic for Hacker News.

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https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

Julian Assange, a political prisoner, was on the front page yesterday, for example.

Re: Reddit CEO: TikTok Is ‘Fundamentally Parasitic’

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Post by rapsey »

jakelazaroff wrote: post #43
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.

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.

> I would have a problem with them blanket removing posts about, say, JavaScript.

But even technical posts that reach the front page are sometimes removed. HN moderation policy is entirely vague and subject to the whims of moderators.

Re: Reddit CEO: TikTok Is ‘Fundamentally Parasitic’

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Post by AndrewKemendo »

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…

This misses the point that Reddit does effectively exactly what TikTok does with it's user targeting. Steve is the Pot calling the Kettle black.

Re: Reddit CEO: TikTok Is ‘Fundamentally Parasitic’

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Post by quantummkv »

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…

The front page of Reddit is pure toxicity, sure. But Reddit gives me the ability to curate my feed. I can curate the subreddits that I want and switch to that custom field, keeping all that toxicity away while still getting the depth reddit provides for niche communities.
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