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A lot of the reason Reddit skews young is the interface, which in turn results in a young-male echochamber. Do you have another interpretation of this text? W
by Karunamon 11y ago
A lot of the reason Reddit skews young is the interface, which in turn results in a young-male echochamber.
Do you have another interpretation of this text?
What is absolutely insulting is to imply that women or older people can't handle Reddit's UI, moreso when it's a completely unsubstantiated speculation.
- Domenic_S 11y agoYou say "can't handle", I say "don't prefer". Older people are massive consumers of news, yet (as a demographic) are not well-represented in Reddit's userbase. That's not because they're idiots; it's because other sites surface content for them in a far more understandable way, in comparison. A site experience can be inclusive or exclusive. I'm arguing that it's exclusive.
- Karunamon 11y agoThat's an interesting theory, but what I really want to know is how you prove that. Reddit has a culture that came, in large part, from the founding of the site and the kind of links that people submit (which started out as bots posting stuff at the founder's direction!), which at least superficially, sounds a lot more reasonable than "women and the elderly don't use the site because UI".