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There is so much blogspam and SEO gaming going on now that google results are very low quality for any topic where there's money to be made.
Very good point. That is exactly why I stop visiting known network sites for answers. Especially when its topics like car repair, or home repair tips etc... It always goes to a fake SEO page with no real useful information. So then it's either reddit or some very niche forums, but forums are hard to use.
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It just suffers from people moving issue most social networks suffer. "just"? Reddit is the community, not code. Users aren't going to run off to Lemmy or any other site. It just isn't going to happen.
The community came VERY close to jumping ship when a beloved low (mid?) level employee was terminated back in 2015.
The alternative site (and it has to be one site, nor multiple, topic-specific sites) has to either already be massively active when the triggering event occurs.
Reddit is an intentionally designed dopamine machine with some areas of usefulness. There are pockets of great, high signal communities on Reddit that have not been unbundled. Discovery, however, is a mess. Some examples of some great subs: - HomeImprorvement is great for repair advice - Keto was helpful in my weight loss journey - Posture for, well, fixing my posture I've also bought and sold various digital and phy…
Reddit to me feels very undervalued. As witnessed by the GameStop saga and previously through the influence of r/D_T, Reddit has tremendous influence on modern society and shapes a lot of our narratives. They should be valued way over $6bn
Perspective is skewed by the stock market doing crazy things lately. Reddit doesn't get the benefit of that.
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wow, my local city sub is a nightmare. All three of them are, really, created one by one as the current 'main' one got progressively worse. It's the one safe place all the people in the surrounding suburbs have to talk about how much they hate the place, apparently.
lol r/seattles assemble!
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It’s different now. As one of those Digg refugees who has now been looking to ditch reddit for a long time, there just isn’t a good, obvious reddit alternative in the same way there was a good, obvious Digg alternative. The internet is too grown up, too parceled out, the big players are too dominant.
What do you look for in an ideal reddit alternative?
Reddit is an intentionally designed dopamine machine with some areas of usefulness. There are pockets of great, high signal communities on Reddit that have not been unbundled. Discovery, however, is a mess. Some examples of some great subs: - HomeImprorvement is great for repair advice - Keto was helpful in my weight loss journey - Posture for, well, fixing my posture I've also bought and sold various digital and phy…
Reddit is a company that made people moderate their content for free. You don't need to know sub names to get some use of it. I append "reddit" to probably 1/3 of my search engine queries. Especially useful when looking for product recommendations.
So reddit is added as a keyword.
How soon before the user generated content is fully under centralized control so they can go back to force-feeding in search?
The guys got t-shirts saying they built something people want
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Could you not argue that HN is the same thing, just at a smaller scale? HN is essentially just a front page. Reddit just doesn't tailor itself to one particular type of discussion like HN does. But rather the dominant topics of discussion such as /r/funny frequently dominate the front page due to popularity. Reddit is really what you make of it and if you only subscribe to topics that interest you, it becomes a vastl…
In terms of features and intent HN is similar to Reddit. But HN is miles and miles ahead in the quality of discussion, moderation, and diversity of thought and opinions.
If HN grew significantly and wanted to enable more diverse conversation, it would essentially turn into a Reddit.
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Could you not argue that HN is the same thing, just at a smaller scale? HN is essentially just a front page. Reddit just doesn't tailor itself to one particular type of discussion like HN does. But rather the dominant topics of discussion such as /r/funny frequently dominate the front page due to popularity. Reddit is really what you make of it and if you only subscribe to topics that interest you, it becomes a vastl…
In terms of features and intent HN is similar to Reddit. But HN is miles and miles ahead in the quality of discussion, moderation, and diversity of thought and opinions.
My point is that HN is lucky that it is small and focuses on a particular topic of discussion and therefore it is quality over quantity. Reddit is a beast and allows discussion around really anything that pleases people. But it is a victim of its size and really reflects problems with other social media platforms such as FB and Instagram where rigorous moderation is next to impossible at that scale at the moment.
Think of /r/Wallstreetbets as an example, a subreddit that went from around 2.5 Million subscribers to 8.8 Million subscribers in a week. How do you appropriately scale moderation to content like that.