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The fall of Reddit: Why it’s quickly declining into chaos

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Re: The fall of Reddit: Why it’s quickly declining into chaos

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Post by mym1990 »

snickerbockers wrote: post #9

I hate how many online communities have centralized themselves around reddit and discord. I'm involved a lot of communities and fandoms where everybody congregates on those two platforms, and those two platforms alone. Things were a lot better in the 00s when these sorts of communities existed primarily on webforums. That said, I'm not sure how many of the problems are problems with reddit itself vs how many of the p…

I think centralization is just a byproduct of the ease of setting up a community on such sites/apps. I lurk in a few subreddits these days, but I almost never feel the pull to chime in or contribute because it kind of feels like my contribution just goes out into a vast universe, and I just think 'why bother?'. I feel like the days of personalized forums truly felt like a little tight community in the very wide web.

Re: The fall of Reddit: Why it’s quickly declining into chaos

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Post by anon2020dot00 »

junofan wrote: post #34
tux2bsd wrote: post #23

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The mental image of somebody bothering to click a downvote button is hilarious.

Do also find someone clicking an upvote hilarious? I don't get why upvote or downvote button would either be hilarious? Isn't that already normalized from Reddit, YouTube, etc.. ?

Re: The fall of Reddit: Why it’s quickly declining into chaos

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Post by yxhuvud »

ohCh6zos wrote: post #35
thomassmith65 wrote: post #21

In a decade this essay will still be available on some web archive, but the author will be fully grown, and the zeitgeist that shaped his adolescence, which is already dying, will be as transparently foolish as is, to contemporary sensibilities, a 1970's punk rocker shouting 'The Beatles suck!' It is true Reddit is a pile of garbage, but it was a worse pile of garbage when its community was posting kiddie porn and cr…

While those were both issues. There was a lot more quality text discussion on the site during that era.

There is still a humongous amount of good discussion there. Perhaps the problem is you need to remove some bad subreddits? Some of those have definitely gotten worse, but there are plenty of good ones to find.

Re: The fall of Reddit: Why it’s quickly declining into chaos

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Post by chaps »

jancsika wrote: post #11

> Shortly after, the FBI began monitoring Aaron Swartz and he was arrested for downloading academic journals from MIT in an attempt to make them freely available online. AFAICT Swartz never said or wrote why he attempted to download all of JSTOR. Even close friends like Lawrence Lessig only speculated as to what he may have been wanting to do with that data. But I suppose this kind of lazy writing and lack of standar…

Why do you think he attempted to download all of JSTOR?

Re: The fall of Reddit: Why it’s quickly declining into chaos

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Post by unconed »

I thought this was a clever joke at first that parodied how reddit forces their app on mobile users in various insidious ways... but it turns out Medium does the same.

You want to know why the web is so bad? Because it's slowly become acceptable to treat your users with complete contempt by interrupting and "nudging" them into being surveillance cattle.

Re: The fall of Reddit: Why it’s quickly declining into chaos

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Post by bergenty »

ohCh6zos wrote: post #30
bergenty wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It’s not an echo chamber. It’s a meeting place for people who agree on the same things. That’s like calling a CNC machine forum an echo chamber.

And yet it used to be something very different.

No it didn’t. I’ve been there since 2008/9 and the conversation has always been left leaning.

Re: The fall of Reddit: Why it’s quickly declining into chaos

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Post by toastal »

endtime wrote: post #33
ivraatiems wrote: post #12

I have a different take: The main problem with reddit is in how badly it's bungled its several different redesigns over the last few years, and how it's slowly ruined its users' experience in misguided attempts to drive mobile traffic to its app. Right now, here's the process for browsing a subreddit on mobile without the (ads and tracking loaded) reddit app: 1. Navigate to subreddit. Find out which of two (non-NSFW)…

I use the app Joey on Android, works great. I still use old.reddit.com on desktop, and probably always will.

Infinity is good and on F-Droid unlike other mentioned options

Re: The fall of Reddit: Why it’s quickly declining into chaos

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Post by zorpner »

tux2bsd wrote: post #25
ivraatiems wrote: post #12

I have a different take: The main problem with reddit is in how badly it's bungled its several different redesigns over the last few years, and how it's slowly ruined its users' experience in misguided attempts to drive mobile traffic to its app. Right now, here's the process for browsing a subreddit on mobile without the (ads and tracking loaded) reddit app: 1. Navigate to subreddit. Find out which of two (non-NSFW)…

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Can you be more specific about what you mean by "woke"?
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