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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 atq2119 »

tux2bsd wrote: post #119
Angostura wrote: post #106

Earlier quoted context omitted.

‘Woke’ just means, open to the idea that the way you behave may have unintended negative effects on other, potentially disadvantaged folks and it’s worth changing the way you behave in these circumstances. So also - empathy.

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I sort of suspect you're not here in good faith, but just in case: my impression is that there is a difference between left and right when it comes to empathy, but it's not the amount of empathy per se, it's who benefits from it. The size of the tribe, if you will.

Painting with a broad brush, conservatives show empathy only for people like themselves and perhaps close family and friends or a local community. Progressives show empathy towards a far broader range of people.

(I think it's no accident that cities tend to be more left. They force people to have larger and more heterogenous tribes, and the correlation between political leaning and size of tribe apparently has some power in both directions.)

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

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Post by richbell »

pseudo0 wrote: post #176
himinlomax wrote: post #140

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One word: transgender. Any light criticism or joke results in a subreddit and site wide ban.

100% accurate, they purged all the feminist subreddits that aligned with JK Rowling a couple years back. Ironically you are now hard-pressed to find a moderator on r/TwoXChromosomes who actually has two X chromosomes. https://www.reddit.com/r/GenderCynical/comments/hovdsi/just_...

> Ironically you are now hard-pressed to find a moderator on r/TwoXChromosomes who actually has two X chromosomes.

Pointing this out would get you banned from Reddit extremely quickly.

Not a criticism, just an observation.

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

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Post by anotheryou »

mjr00 wrote: post #18

As someone who was involved with many internet communities long before reddit, it sounds like the author is just experiencing the eternal September[0]. Pretty much since the day I found out about reddit in... 2008-ish?, everyone in the online communities I knew thought it was filled with awful pseudointellectual teenagers and college students, that the upvote/downvote system was horrible and encouraged people to post…

It's a fundamental problem with democracy + taste: we can only agree on cute cats, even if every individual has diverse actually cool interests.

An Subreddits can only help you towards alternative mainstream until they grow too big.

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

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Post by marginalia_nu »

mjr00 wrote: post #18

As someone who was involved with many internet communities long before reddit, it sounds like the author is just experiencing the eternal September[0]. Pretty much since the day I found out about reddit in... 2008-ish?, everyone in the online communities I knew thought it was filled with awful pseudointellectual teenagers and college students, that the upvote/downvote system was horrible and encouraged people to post…

I think part of the problem is that reddit seems to really aggressively push for subreddit growth. This artificially creates an "eternal september" almost everywhere. I'm not really sure why they are pushing this so hard, if it's to show investors how fast reddit is growing or something?

But bottom line is that perhaps the single most disruptive event an online community can experience is a large sustained influx of new members. It just will not be the same before and after.

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

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Post by mnahkies »

multjoy wrote: post #181
ivraatiems wrote: post #12

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)…

If you use iPhone, then use Apollo. If you use Android, then Sync. The official apps have always been dire.

I find https://github.com/Docile-Alligator/Infinity-For-Reddit good on Android too

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

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Post by Markoff »

multjoy wrote: post #181
ivraatiems wrote: post #12

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)…

If you use iPhone, then use Apollo. If you use Android, then Sync. The official apps have always been dire.

I find Boost for Reddit way better than Sync (used both), but in the end it's about personal preference, there are 1-2 other decent clients, though Boost and Sync are probably ahead of competition.

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

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Post by leereeves »

dTal wrote: post #211
coffeeblack wrote: post #192

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Do people really unironically believe that?

That's pretty disingenuous, considering that the House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack is currently headline news.

Have people forgotten 2016 so quickly?

The left had a nationwide movement named "Occupy" and the Democrats and most media approved.

The right did it once and the same people all lost their minds.

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

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Post by winternett »

oefrha wrote: post #174
winternett wrote: post #130

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It's not the same discussion. a lot more sites pay content creators now. There are many people that work hard on their content. Many sites are engaged in fostering hijacked content, and they quietly do nothing about it because it makes them a lot of untraceable money, a LOT more money than 9gag ever made off of stolen memes... Perhaps it should be called Content Laundering? Reddit has even gone as far as to prohibit…

Yeah, at least twice now a content creator friend of mine went viral (think tens of millions of views) without getting much of the traffic herself; the thieving accounts/networks captured almost all of the benefits. Having those taken down have proven to be almost impossible. It’s disgusting. Edit: In addition, just recently she managed to ward off a blatant thief and finally drive traffic from another hit to herself…

Agreed, also the fact that rehosted content often never points back to the source creator, which potentially robs OC creators of real followers and potential business leads that could likely support them through these harsh times, literally to line pockets of people that had nothing to do with the content creation process at all.

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

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Post by richbell »

marginalia_nu wrote: post #224
mjr00 wrote: post #18

As someone who was involved with many internet communities long before reddit, it sounds like the author is just experiencing the eternal September[0]. Pretty much since the day I found out about reddit in... 2008-ish?, everyone in the online communities I knew thought it was filled with awful pseudointellectual teenagers and college students, that the upvote/downvote system was horrible and encouraged people to post…

I think part of the problem is that reddit seems to really aggressively push for subreddit growth. This artificially creates an "eternal september" almost everywhere. I'm not really sure why they are pushing this so hard, if it's to show investors how fast reddit is growing or something? But bottom line is that perhaps the single most disruptive event an online community can experience is a large sustained influx of…

> This artificially creates an "eternal september" almost everywhere.

This is also why the 'powermods' are so damaging: without proper, attentive moderation an influx of new users invariably leads to a decline in quality.

Half the subreddits in /r/all are so homogeneous that it's impossible to tell if a post was in /r/muderedbywords, /r/nextfuckinglevel, /r/damnthatsinteresting, /r/unexpected, etc.

And that's not to mention all the bots...

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