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I've been enjoying Metafilter again after many years, and also Tildes. There are well established forums for my interests that were always bigger than they were on reddit. I have some Tildes invites if anyone wants them.
The article is supposed to be about the "downfall of social networks" but somehow manages to ignore the fact that Facebook, Instagram and Tik Tok are all still thriving with no end in sight. It's basically trying to say that because Reddit is struggling with profitability and Twitter is struggling with being bought by a petty jackass, social networks are in precipitous decline? But I barely think of Reddit or Twitter…
This is honestly the best way to use Reddit. I feel a lot of the hate is from people that haven't found subreddits useful/relevant to their needs, or are just plain ignorant. And look, I understand there's not enough time in the world to try out everything, but when people like you and I tell them that they can be useful tools, it'd behoove people to take a look before speaking from ignorance a second time.
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> Normies: But it's so easy and i can't be bothered to understand what i am doing anyway. Go away An alternative reading: Nerds screaming for decades: why make things easy for normies, they just need to git good. Poor UX is a feature, not a bug, and it doesn't matter anyway. Normies: lol ok sure. P.S. To add to the horse that is already beaten to death many times over: "just set up a cron job to rsync your files to a…
I read that as > The Free shit they make for us must be trivial to use and for free and i wont give them any money to develop it to solve the problem. I'd rather get exploited by megacorps for free and complain that they treat me like cattle hope they like to grass they get fed
I, personally, am in the camp of people willing to pay for non-shit services that let me avoid ads and other annoyances coming from something being "free". And I vote with my wallet too, which is why I pay for YT Premium and never have to think about the whole ad debacle with YT. Because yeah, "free" tends to come at a cost.
This article was a culture shock. Did people actually used to believe places like Reddit or Twitter were "healthy good places" to spend your time? I thought we were all on the same page for once, in recognizing that while social networks have some benefits for the most part they are deeply unhealthy places due to how every one of them is built around ad views or subscriptions. This is partially why I don't really car…
> Did people actually used to believe places like Reddit or Twitter were "healthy good places" to spend your time? If you never curated your reddit experience, I could see how you might have this attitude. I won't deny that /r/popular and /r/all are rage inducing dumpster fires. But if you create an account and join subreddits, just going to https://www.reddit.com/ takes you to a selection just from those subreddits…
Why are we bothering wasting resources on reddit, when what we actually want is a maintained wiki page?
>Google would disagree
Only because Google has ignored their search engine problem for years before Reddit existed, and sees absolutely no problem in promoting the most random of sites as long as the content technically exists on the page. At this point, I'm not sure they want to solve the problem, due to the revenue gained by encouraging prioritized ad placements.
Don't even get me started on the absurd levels of misinformation. Not even related to politics, it's everything. The posturing as experts when they're 15 year olds. The encouraging of buying this over that, without letting others know they work for that company. So much of the "useful information" on reddit is misjudged that way because of the pseudo-anonymous structure that encourages people to turn off their brain and believe everything they read. By the way this isn't an argument in support of non-anonymous platforms, only that the way people interact with Reddit is quite harmful and not sure many recognize that.
The article is supposed to be about the "downfall of social networks" but somehow manages to ignore the fact that Facebook, Instagram and Tik Tok are all still thriving with no end in sight. It's basically trying to say that because Reddit is struggling with profitability and Twitter is struggling with being bought by a petty jackass, social networks are in precipitous decline? But I barely think of Reddit or Twitter…
I don't see Facebook (the core, original product) thriving. At least when it comes to actual engagement, I haven't seen any in years. None of my hundreds of "friends" posts anything anymore and we've been there since the Stanford days.
The article is supposed to be about the "downfall of social networks" but somehow manages to ignore the fact that Facebook, Instagram and Tik Tok are all still thriving with no end in sight. It's basically trying to say that because Reddit is struggling with profitability and Twitter is struggling with being bought by a petty jackass, social networks are in precipitous decline? But I barely think of Reddit or Twitter…
The article is supposed to be about the "downfall of social networks" but somehow manages to ignore the fact that Facebook, Instagram and Tik Tok are all still thriving with no end in sight. It's basically trying to say that because Reddit is struggling with profitability and Twitter is struggling with being bought by a petty jackass, social networks are in precipitous decline? But I barely think of Reddit or Twitter…
For people who aren't angry about politics, Twitter is just as appealing as it ever was (other than the transition pains.) Among people who are angry about politics, it became less appealing to people who think certain ideas should disqualify you from speaking, and more appealing to those who either don't think that, or who think that an entirely different set of ideas than the recent status quo should be the ones that disqualify you from speaking.
The decline of social network monopolies will also see a decline in mass political influence in the form of international content farms pumping out propaganda, and grassroots organisations trying to save us from burning down the planet. It feels like the balance of political discourse and its capacity for abuse wobbles and wavers over time, but ultimately they cancel each other out. I'm looking forward to a world bey…
10 years ago The Verge had a thriving comments section, with an audience that migrated from Engadget and Gizmodo. There was even a messageboard to discuss topics in more detail. It ended up getting closed. These days the comments sections on Verge stories are largely dead.