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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 qsdf38100 »

foolfoolz wrote: post #70
Capricorn2481 wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you feel anyone has improved upon what Reddit is doing? Or have you only found satisfaction in specific communities on specific sites? Are there non traditional communities like Tildetown that you enjoy?

tiktok provides better “communities” with more organic content. it know it sounds weird but you can get into areas of tiktok very similar to a subreddit. the lack of centralization like public karma, mods, sticky posts, etc actually helps

Hmmm, tell me more about these better communities without centralization, moderation, or even votes.

Sounds like the ideal opaque platform to brainwash people with "organic", shallow and easy to watch content.

The perfect backdoor for an open society.

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

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Post by 0dayz »

Im going to play devils advocate, when you look at the subreddits banned there are those that are banned for unknown and petty reasons (Tumblrinaction), however at the same time extremely radical or racist subreddits are also included (alt right ones, some extreme left and coontown fat people hate).

And if we judge reddit with 4chan the "free" speech platform, you will notice that 4chan is plagued with extremism and anti-social views, which in some ways is because they don't censor and is 100% anonymous to each user.

Personally some censorship is good to not allow the patients running the asylum, but also make sure you don't overreach.

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

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Post by spamuel »

tux2bsd wrote: post #115
spamuel wrote: post #92

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I'm going to disagee (kind of) - Reddit mods aren't woke. I think that reddit mods used the woke moment as a casus belli to consolidate power on the platform. The same thing is going on right now politically and culturally in the United States. There is an excusable reason to publicly and overtly eject people who do not have allegiances to specific hierarchies of power in institutions. And in this moment those hierar…

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Some people genuinely believe in these things. I met a lot of lefty weirdos at house parties in California who would explain these ideas to me with nothing but love, even though they knew I did not agree. But we still drank and ate together and enjoyed the party. I would call them "woke", but not malintentioned.

The people using these things as cudgels are not the same as the people who just believed they were describing the dynamics of the world.

It seems similar to me as the difference between early Christians, and the much later elites who would go on to sell indulgences while imprisoning and hacking off the heads of people who wouldn't agree submit to the regime in both thought and action.

Maybe I'm splitting too fine a hair.

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

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Post by Jistern »

trashcan wrote: post #22
sirspacey wrote: post #14

I cannot buy into a wholesale generalization that mods are power tripping people who deserve our contempt because they are lonely. There’s all kinds of motivations for being a mod. I rarely find a sub where mods aren’t dealing with far more BS than they are putting out. If I don’t agree with how mods handle a channel, I leave. I think it’s important that we question the usefulness of blaming society for the lack of q…

Sounds like you haven't met any reddit mods. And no, web3 offers nothing except the ability to try and control your digital currency and make money off you.

I agree. The Reddit mods I've dealt with were nasty people.

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

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Post by philjohn »

thefz wrote: post #109
sirspacey wrote: post #14

I cannot buy into a wholesale generalization that mods are power tripping people who deserve our contempt because they are lonely. There’s all kinds of motivations for being a mod. I rarely find a sub where mods aren’t dealing with far more BS than they are putting out. If I don’t agree with how mods handle a channel, I leave. I think it’s important that we question the usefulness of blaming society for the lack of q…

You are automatically banned from some subs if you comment/post in other blacklisted, "rival" communities. Let this sink in.

And yet that can also be valid - the /r/teen sub, which is meant as a safe place for teenagers to talk, bans people who've posted in creepy subs - do you disagree with that?

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

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Post by philjohn »

smrtinsert wrote: post #154

Reddit critiques in this thread sound more like anger directed at their moderation because the commenters here have apparently been banned, shadow-banned, removed for transgender "jokes" etc.

Looking at the comments that got them banned would be illuminating. I've seen my fair share of people just being straight up assholes. Sorry buddy, be civil, or go somewhere else.

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

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Post by FastMonkey »

agentgumshoe wrote: post #131
uhhhhhhhhhhhh wrote: post #114

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You're looking at it all wrong. Kind of through the lens of an narcissist. Not nearly as many people have had the opportunity to even become "full" intellectuals. The irony here is that while the world burns, the easiest solution is raising that bar for them by challenging them and leading them into better paradigms, through interaction and debate or even arguments. Without your presence amongst the people on that pl…

I agree with this in principle, but in reality the flood of new people, influence/manipulation by organisations (political and market) and encouragement of features that reward low quality content (emotes, monetisation, etc) mean the site doesn't actually promote the environment you suggest should exist. Old fashioned forums are still far and away the best 'system' for this, they're just not 'popular' enough any more…

The solution seems to be a Goldilocks zone between popularity and death, too popular and it devolves, too unpopular and it dies. HN manages to keep itself tucked neatly into that zone I think.

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

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Post by PartiallyTyped »

himinlomax wrote: post #142
xdfgh1112 wrote: post #118

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Very few communities do that, and you generally aren't missing out getting banned from them anyway.

You immediately get a dozen ban notifications if you post in KotakuInaction.

Or TumblrInAction or PoliticalCompassMemes.

Regardless of the content of your responses/posts, you get banned.

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