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Reddit is the new Usenet with all the good, the bad and the silly. The advantage of small subreddits over HN is that links don't get buried.
by dorfsmay 10y ago
Reddit is the new Usenet with all the good, the bad and the silly.
The advantage of small subreddits over HN is that links don't get buried.
- j1vms 10y ago> Reddit is the new Usenet with all the good, the bad and the silly. And none of the decentralization that was Usenet unfortunately.
- qwertyuiop924 10y agoReddit a crossroads of the usenet and 4chan cultures: it's where they meet. However, Reddit actually doesn't totally adopt the common-carrier approach, and aren't decentralized: they try to take responsibility for their users to a greater degree than either of the previous sites ever did, resulting in things like hateful subreddits getting taken down, and the voat split.