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I think it's bullshit too, but most people online just want Cable TV With Hyperlinks. Reddit is actually raw and unfiltered to those users. Everything else on
by forgottenpass 11y ago
I think it's bullshit too, but most people online just want Cable TV With Hyperlinks. Reddit is actually raw and unfiltered to those users.
Everything else on their radar is an editorial outlet, the home shopping network or the classifieds section. The closest they get to interacting with real people is Twitter and Facebook. Which appeal to the user's vanity, and following mechanics keep them in some approximation of the social bubbles they're in offline.
But Reddit has pseudonymous randos, with too many different names for a user to meaningfully fit in their brain, so it becomes a single voice to them. And they have ideas that aren't carefully crafted for palatability before presenting them. So reddit becomes "id."
- pjc50 11y agoideas that aren't carefully crafted for palatability That's quite an impressive euphemism for some of the stuff that you might see if you were to hit the "random NFSW" link. Not to mention the racial and misogyny hate groups that turn up, or the ubiquity of NSFW usernames.
- forgottenpass 11y agoI was mentioning where the bar is set by commercial platforms creating content to appeal to their audience, not how far below that bar other things can get. But since you mention it, trendy clickable blogs can and do sell hate, sex and gratuitousness all the time, it is all in how they package it. NSFW is by definition the sorts of images and words that can't be repackaged in a way cubical dwellers can have on-screen while slacking, but site like The Chive still run right up to the NSFA (Not Safe For Advertiser) line with it.