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I mainly use it to engage with meaningful subreddits such as SaaS, startups, entrepreneurs, growth marketing, marketing automation, etc. since I work at WebEngage - a leading full stack marketing automation stack!
But, duuuude! I think another 5 years down the line I'll still say, "I am new to Reddit!"
It's worth alot more as a leftish propaganda machine.
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My parents in their 60s have discovered that Reddit is a great source of research to get real humans talking about a variety of topics (basically what Quora aimed to be but never was). I strongly feel they're just getting started.
Lately I have been adding "reddit" to all the questions I ask google because I know some "real" person on reddit will have a relatable answer. I too feel this is untapped potential.
Edit: There seems to a project that does this exactly: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy
Reddit (and discord) seem to me ripe to be unbundled. They are benefiting enormously from the free labour of moderators, and their network advantage depends highly on google's asinine decisions to block out anything but the top 10 sites on their search results. Due to aging moderators, overcrowded communities and meme fatigue, we re more likely to watch their communities break off independently.
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They're monetizing the app and forcing mobile users onto it. The desktop site is just a way for them to acquire mobile users.
I'm curious, what makes the mobile app easier to monetize than their mobile web version? I get that push notifications can help bring people back, but other than that what benefit do they get by forcing people from web to native?
Congrats to them big time. It seriously doesn't get the recognition it deserves as the most impactful social media platform. To me, Twitter, TikTok, Facebook, and other social media today is less about connecting people and really about driving targeted and calculated impressions of X to audiences via a user's feed. This is astro-turfed to feel organic and botted to death by everyone because of how much influence it…
> what I find awesome about reddit is its ability to connect people and really have group conversations I am a redditor for 7 years and that was true early on. Today it is not. You can connect and have group conversations only if you subscribe to a certain dominant political and cultural narrative, walk on egg shells, and toe a line. If you don't, you are swiftly downvoted and banned. There is no escape from this eve…
You mean dominant across all of reddit or dominant in that specific sub? There are plenty of subs that have a political and cultural bent quite different from the overall reddit one.
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Yes, discoverability of "good" subreddits is not there. But on the other hand I think Reddit get too much criticism. I find most subreddits besides the big catch-all ones like /r/pics good. Basically all the TV shows have fun post-episode discussions and going through Game of Thrones, Black Sails or The Expanse wouldn't have been the same without Reddit for me. It becomes the group of buddies I can vent or be in awe…
/r/formula1 has useful info, but it feels very cliquey and fanboyish.
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I’ve never spent time on r popular or the main page. If you only spend time in subs Reddit is very well designed and I think less exploitative than other social media
My issue is that you can’t serendipitously stumble upon random interesting subreddits without using the front page.