Ready For a Reddit Replacement?
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Ready For a Reddit Replacement?
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Re: Ready For a Reddit Replacement?
#2Very cool, but he's solving an imagined problem.
Re: Ready For a Reddit Replacement?
#3Reddit's beauty is in sub-reddits. Don't like the front page? Just unsubscribe from it, and subscribe to whatever you like.
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Re: Ready For a Reddit Replacement?
#4Give users a basic IQ and personality test. Provide different content based upon where they fall.
Re: Ready For a Reddit Replacement?
#5The Sub-reddits are genius, building all these amazing sub communities. This is a big step back, their answer to the 'supposed' decline in Reddit is let's just make a clone, why? Because it'll have less users. Let's say it did hugely well, it'd be a vicious circle leading to everyone moving to another clone.
Re: Ready For a Reddit Replacement?
#6Give users a basic IQ and personality test. Provide different content based upon where they fall.
Surely this won't make those considered stupid any smarter. Why shouldn't someone less intelligent be allowed to read and interact with an intellectual conversation. It's not that easy to group people in such ways.
Re: Ready For a Reddit Replacement?
#7No social platform is going to disrupt the existing systems until they decouple content and organization. The main issue is that we assume that all 'upvotes' are equal. If a user can select who is in their filter layer (like in Twitter), as opposed to selecting content (a subreddit), there will be a shift away from the cycle of bread and circuses.
Hubski may be doing that but only implementing this one graph node deep and only having one default category for information, will probably not create a vibrant and diverse community.
Re: Ready For a Reddit Replacement?
#8I always think it's ridiculous when I hear "It's the new reddit" and then see what basically amounts to a Wordpress blog layout. Reddit, digg, HN were all partly successful because of their layout, not in spite of it. I don't want to scroll past the meta of every article today just to see what you have; I want a list of what's happening that is sorted/controlled by the community. And the less images, the better. I like reddit in that I can turn off the images so that I can fit 17-20 article headlines on a page w/o scrolling.
Ugh.
Re: Ready For a Reddit Replacement?
#9Give users a basic IQ and personality test. Provide different content based upon where they fall.
Surely this won't make those considered stupid any smarter. Why shouldn't someone less intelligent be allowed to read and interact with an intellectual conversation. It's not that easy to group people in such ways.
It's not about segregation, it's about content promotion. Why should content-promotion algorithms be intelligence agnostic?
Re: Ready For a Reddit Replacement?
#10The Sub-reddits are genius, building all these amazing sub communities. This is a big step back, their answer to the 'supposed' decline in Reddit is let's just make a clone, why? Because it'll have less users. Let's say it did hugely well, it'd be a vicious circle leading to everyone moving to another clone.
Sure it will be a vicious cycle. Same thing with fashions and popular hangouts. It's human nature, and somehow peoe make money in those businesses :-)
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