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Re: Sunsetting Secret Santa and Reddit Gifts

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Post by uDontKnowMe »

drawfloat wrote: post #50

I appreciate it’s a very different time, so not saying they’re comparable 1 to 1, but back in the waning days of Digg you saw Reddit suddenly growing and growing as this new and actually interesting competitor. Is there an equivalent today? I enjoyed using Reddit for years, then used it without (tbh) enjoying it much for probably a couple of years, and finally have almost fully disconnected. There’s no denying it has…

There is a subreddit about this: r/RedditAlternatives. Trouble is, most of them end up being dominated by the alt-right/hate mobs.

Interesting that you want something that is specifically not just a reddit knock off. I actually think that a Reddit knock off focussed on discussion (say, like hacker news, but with subreddits) would do well.

Re: Sunsetting Secret Santa and Reddit Gifts

#52

Post by uDontKnowMe »

ehsankia wrote: post #29
Rebelgecko wrote: post #17

Maybe I'm not the typical user, but to me reddit seems to be losing sight of why people use the site. They're killing aspects of the community that people actually care about. In the meantime, most of the site's new features seem to be centered around avatars and selling cosmetic microtransactions. I can't blame them too much for trying to monetize, but I wish their strategies were more inclusive of the way I use red…

At least they have still kept old.reddit.com around, which thankfully doesn't have most of the new bullshit. The day they kill that is the day reddit will be truly dead.

This was some comfort years ago, but these days, the vast majority of reddit users are mobile and new-reddit, whose UX's favor more meme/video mindless scrolling and throwaway comments. So while the old reddit experience is there in looks it feels more hollow nowadays. You go into a common interest subreddit and where 8 years ago you might have found interesting discussions now it's all memes, inspiration photos, etc.

Re: Sunsetting Secret Santa and Reddit Gifts

#53

Post by ehsankia »

KitDuncan wrote: post #44
ehsankia wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Any real redditor still uses old.reddit.com, the day they get rid of that, I'm guessing the same thing that happened to digg will happen.

Give libreddit a shot. I recently switched from old.reddit.com and much prefer it.

It looks like a worse version of new reddit? Why would I want that?

Re: Sunsetting Secret Santa and Reddit Gifts

#54

Post by junon »

uDontKnowMe wrote: post #51
drawfloat wrote: post #50

I appreciate it’s a very different time, so not saying they’re comparable 1 to 1, but back in the waning days of Digg you saw Reddit suddenly growing and growing as this new and actually interesting competitor. Is there an equivalent today? I enjoyed using Reddit for years, then used it without (tbh) enjoying it much for probably a couple of years, and finally have almost fully disconnected. There’s no denying it has…

There is a subreddit about this: r/RedditAlternatives. Trouble is, most of them end up being dominated by the alt-right/hate mobs. Interesting that you want something that is specifically not just a reddit knock off. I actually think that a Reddit knock off focussed on discussion (say, like hacker news, but with subreddits) would do well.

This comment doesn't deserve downvotes. I've spent a considerable amount of time trying to find a good alternative without much success.

This comment isn't using these labels incorrectly - the people on most of the alternatives post blatantly anti-Semitic and/or legitimately racist content (not ambiguously or twitter-classified racism, but full-on, hard-R et al, good old fashioned racism), anti-vaxxer mobs, doxxing, calls to violence, etc.

And yes, much of the time this sort of content is the majority.

Re: Sunsetting Secret Santa and Reddit Gifts

#55

Post by Seattle3503 »

xanaxagoras wrote: post #21
Rebelgecko wrote: post #17

Maybe I'm not the typical user, but to me reddit seems to be losing sight of why people use the site. They're killing aspects of the community that people actually care about. In the meantime, most of the site's new features seem to be centered around avatars and selling cosmetic microtransactions. I can't blame them too much for trying to monetize, but I wish their strategies were more inclusive of the way I use red…

For me reddit lost sight of why I used the site about 3 years ago, or maybe that's just when it got bad enough that I no longer felt unsubscribing from all defaults was a suitable solution. There's really nowhere left to hide from the rigorous enforcement of orthodox leftist thought. It's mostly a mutual admiration society where the boundaries of allowed disagreement and interesting discussion may touch here and ther…

/r/neoliberal was good for a bit, but it has been slipping into typical leftist content since the election.

Re: Sunsetting Secret Santa and Reddit Gifts

#56

Post by Seattle3503 »

bmarquez wrote: post #43
BuyMyBitcoins wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And the leftists on Reddit have adopted the same playbook but the admins don’t care to stop it. Whereas the_donald was just one offender, dozens of subreddits manage to spam the same kind of content to the front page. It’s not uncommon to see the exact same submission appear twice on r/all from subreddits like r/AOC and r/ourpresident. Or, they co-opt subreddits like r/murderedbywords, r/facepalm, r/insanepeoplefaceb…

I've noticed this in some non-political subreddits, having seen submissions with a political flavor (always left-leaning) get massively upvoted higher than the average usercount of that subreddit and the average upvotes for other submissions on that subreddit. Sometimes I worry when niche subreddits get too popular, since they start getting political submissions.

At this point, only the porn subreddits are exempt.

Re: Sunsetting Secret Santa and Reddit Gifts

#57

Post by gremlinsinc »

CPLX wrote: post #19

I realize that it’s not the most important issue given the current state of the world but I really wish the tech community would stop using the word “sunset” to replace the universally understood word “end”

Terminate, close, or shut down seems more apt than "end".

Re: Sunsetting Secret Santa and Reddit Gifts

#58

Post by Seattle3503 »

gundmc wrote: post #47
esyir wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This sounds like "other side politics bad", more than anything else. Reddit's top subs are basically a firehose of propaganda whenever politics are concerned. They've been polluting public discourse for some time, it's just that you only noticed when you didn't agree with said propaganda. For an example, take a look at the murderedbyAOC subreddit. It's literally posts from one guy and used to regularly top /all.

It boggles my mind that reddit escapes the scrutiny from the media that Facebook and Twitter get when it's nearly as influential and just as full of blatant propaganda.

When you pick your own subreddits there is a case to be made that you chose to see what you see. As reddit goes further down the path of picking what hits the front page, they will get more flak.

Re: Sunsetting Secret Santa and Reddit Gifts

#59

Post by Seattle3503 »

uDontKnowMe wrote: post #52
ehsankia wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

At least they have still kept old.reddit.com around, which thankfully doesn't have most of the new bullshit. The day they kill that is the day reddit will be truly dead.

This was some comfort years ago, but these days, the vast majority of reddit users are mobile and new-reddit, whose UX's favor more meme/video mindless scrolling and throwaway comments. So while the old reddit experience is there in looks it feels more hollow nowadays. You go into a common interest subreddit and where 8 years ago you might have found interesting discussions now it's all memes, inspiration photos, etc…

And you find people talking about new features in a way that is totally foreign to you because old reddit doesn't support them. I don't know whats someone's profile says or what their profile picture is.

Re: Sunsetting Secret Santa and Reddit Gifts

#60

Post by Seattle3503 »

drawfloat wrote: post #50

I appreciate it’s a very different time, so not saying they’re comparable 1 to 1, but back in the waning days of Digg you saw Reddit suddenly growing and growing as this new and actually interesting competitor. Is there an equivalent today? I enjoyed using Reddit for years, then used it without (tbh) enjoying it much for probably a couple of years, and finally have almost fully disconnected. There’s no denying it has…

It seems like a lot of communities have moved to discord, but thats obviously not the same.
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