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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.
https://www.theatlantic.com/daily-dish/archive/2007/11/ron-p...
Reddit works fine for me. In R/W mode I use only /r/diypedals and /r/guitarpedals and for daily dose of doom and gloom in R/O mode I use /r/news and /r/worldnews. I access it only via RSS reader and it navigates me directly to compact version which loads instantly and works well on mobile.
I'd stay away from the latter two, like not even read it. I made a terrible life changing mistake by reading too much of these subreddits. It's user generated content, mostly by people who hate their lives, hate society and hate others, aided by the traditional media they link to. By the time I saw that reality is different and so much better than the doom I got on Reddit, it was too late.
You’re the one hating here. I wonder what your "reality" is like.
I personally hate Reddit, but I think it's misleading to talk about their "fall". Arent they thriving or even excelling by the metrics they (and most other non-users) care about?
Forget running a sustainable business with your customers at the heart of it, the new way is going just fine.
> What started as a bastion of independent thought, Reddit has slowly devolved into a den of groupthink, censorship, and corporate greed. This is revisionist romanticism. Reddit is just a collection of forums like the many hundreds of thousands that came before it, and continue to exist alongside it. Reddit is also so incredibly massive that making sweeping statements about its quality or composition is meaningless,…
You can't ban a group that isn't a group. So the site grouped loose collections of people into what they called communities. And it became self fulfilling as groups define themselves by what they are not as well as what they are.
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Reddit is hijacking content by requiring it to be hosted on it's own CDN... It's one of the main reasons why they put up walls. Many reddit users are actively involved in content and credit theft as well, but no one knows about how deep it runs. In a world where creators are going unviewed from IG to TikTok, there is literally an underground repost network that literally steals and reposts content to claim credit and…
You mean 9gag surely. I thought they were the ones that stole everyone else's content, or are we just having the same conversation that we were having 15 years ago. Content theft on the internet is as old as the internet.
The other major subs are also filled with shallow/unsubstantial content
But if you keep out of those it is usually ok
My 15y old Gold account just got banned after posting a crypto-critical Wall Street Journal link. Go figure.
WSJ is paywalled isn't it? Like as in no one can read the article.
People complaining about Reddit remind me of that quote from Bjarne Stroustrup about computer languages: “There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses.” A lot of people use Reddit. I've been on since nearly the beginning and seen it go through various phases. They started getting serious about moderation after Gamergate and they're still serious about it since they wa…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8chan
and I don't visit it either because I am too old but who would want to fight qanon would probably need to. I salute them.
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You don’t have to publicly blame it on "leftists" and compare it to NK. Your kind of speech isn’t welcome here.
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)…
stopped using reddit after they introduced new design. My browser struggles scrolling it smoothly (in most compressed mode). Too complex DOM they put there. Lack of programming skills.