Reddit Has Become the Internet's Strip Mall
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Reddit Has Become the Internet's Strip Mall
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Re: Reddit Has Become the Internet's Strip Mall
#2I hate this metaphor before I even hear about it.
Re: Reddit Has Become the Internet's Strip Mall
#3reddit was great when Digg existed. It was a niche community where you could find experts sharing information about all sorts of topics.
Now it's just a hivemind of low information opinions, hot takes, and brainrot.
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#4reddit was great when Digg existed. It was a niche community where you could find experts sharing information about all sorts of topics. Now it's just a hivemind of low information opinions, hot takes, and brainrot.
Because they also ban everyone they disagree with
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#5Reddit chose this, unfortunately.
When you let google read your site, let alone sign deals with them, you create commercial incentives to rank/post on reddit. Everything that follows is inevitable and obvious.
They have now positioned themselves as an ai-slop source of truth. Expect everyone interested in ranking well in google's AI Overview -- essentially every marketer -- to treat reddit as a high-priority slop/advertising target.
Re: Reddit Has Become the Internet's Strip Mall
#6Remember when an engaged worldnews moderator got sent to federal prison, because she was Ghislane Maxwell?
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#7reddit was great when Digg existed. It was a niche community where you could find experts sharing information about all sorts of topics. Now it's just a hivemind of low information opinions, hot takes, and brainrot.
Because they also ban everyone they disagree with
There isn’t one “they”, each subreddit does its own moderation
Re: Reddit Has Become the Internet's Strip Mall
#8Like most of the internet, this site included, it's about how you use it and where you choose to participate.
You can get dirty by digging, of course. But there are still excellent communities on reddit that you really can't find anywhere else.
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#9reddit was great when Digg existed. It was a niche community where you could find experts sharing information about all sorts of topics. Now it's just a hivemind of low information opinions, hot takes, and brainrot.
That certainly applies to the biggest subs, but there are usually still high-quality subs for most topics.
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#10Does that make hackernews the radioshack?
The entire internet is really not much more than a strip mall at this stage with every site being subscription or ad based.